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Europe

Begley Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300168143, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sen...

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Atlas of the Peninsular War

Robertson Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780300148695, Yale University Press, September 2010
160 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 77 maps, 35 illus.

This is the first comprehensive modern atlas of the Peninsular War, the series of campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and British forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington. Here a distinguished military historian examines and e...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Lenin's Jewish Question

Petrovsky-Shtern Yohanan

ISBN: HB: 9780300152104, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

In this first examination of Lenin's genealogical and political connections to East European Jews, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern reveals the broad cultural meanings of indisputable evidence that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jew. He examines why and...

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Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300168891, Yale University Press, August 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their re...

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Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168860, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Snapshots of gaiety and celebration – the street parties, the victory speeches – are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a 'golden age' of pride and self-confidence. The countr...

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Medieval

Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path

Mitterauer Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226532530, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe's unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively...

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Rethinking France Les Lieux de memoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories

Nora Pierre, Jordan David P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591353, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
504 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 77 halftones

The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the histor...

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Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

Sher Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752532, ISBN: HB: 9780226752525, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
848 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 45 halftones, 16 line illus.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these semina...

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Political Science

Kirov Murder and Soviet History

Lenoe Matthew E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112368, Yale University Press, June 2010
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash...

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Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

Hadley Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780226311883, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people th...

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