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Europe

Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Fancy Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226597898, ISBN: HB: 9780226329642, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles,...

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Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

Ira Jaroslav, Janac Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024635903, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following the so-called "Material Turn" of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space – specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces...

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Europe

Law

Minorities and Law in Czechoslovakia

Kuklik Jan, Petras Rene

ISBN: PB: 9788024635835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2017
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic Across the whole of modern Czech history – from 1918, through World War II, and into the postwar years – ethnic and minority issues have been of the utmost prominence. Moreover, Czechoslova...

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Mob Town A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End

Bennett John

ISBN: HB: 9780300221954, Yale University Press, September 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its streets for prey, London's East End had earned a reputation for immorality, filth, and vice. John Bennett, a writer and tour guide who has walked and researched the area for more than thirty years, delves into...

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Europe

Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300221701, Yale University Press, November 2016
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

<p>Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries....

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Marie-Antoinette

Delalex Helene, Maral Alexandre, Milovanovic Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9781606064832, Getty Publications, July 2016
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 225 colour illus.

An intimate glimpse into the public and private world of one of history's most famous – and infamous – queens Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became...

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Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70

Jones Polly

ISBN: PB: 9780300219777, ISBN: HB: 9780300185126, Yale University Press, April 2016
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and...

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Europe

Massacre The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871

Merriman John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219449, Yale University Press, March 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in "Bloody Week"...

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Christianity

Europe

Mystic Fable, Volume Two The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

de Certeau Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780226209135, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 5 tables

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststru...

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Europe

Murder of King James I

Bellany Alastair, Cogswell Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780300214963, Yale University Press, October 2015
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 97 black&white illus.

A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leadi...

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