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America

Strangers on Familiar Soil Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection

Dallam Melillo Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780300230703, Yale University Press, November 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes wi...

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America

Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis

Doyle Amanda E., Adams Melanie A.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982911, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 18 halftones

The bustling river city of St. Louis occupies a special place in the long history of African American advocacy for civil rights and equal justice. The city was home to a small but thriving population of free blacks even before the Civil War. It was t...

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Military

Africa

Teenage Safari A South African Conscript in the Border War in Angola and Namibia

Davies Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781911512936, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour & black&white photos, 1 map

A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s. This is not the usual military history, written by a commander armed with facts, nor a researched story of a war or campaign. It is a persona...

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Europe

Military

In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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Military

Africa

Soldiers in Revolt Army Mutinies in Africa

Dwyer Maggie

ISBN: PB: 9781849048293, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Soldiers in Revolt" examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia, the book provides a unique and intimate perspecti...

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Africa

Africa, Empire and Fleet Street Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine

Derrick Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781849048323, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For decades before and after African independence, the London weekly West Africa was a well-known source of news, analysis and comment on the region, especially the (former) British territories. Jonathan Derrick, who worked on...

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Military

Nanoweapons A Growing Threat to Humanity

Del Monte Louis A.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348964, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Nanoweapons just might render humanity extinct in the near future – a notion that is frightening and shocking but potentially true. In Nanoweapons Louis A. Del Monte describes the most deadly generation of military weapons the world has ever encounte...

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Middle East

Baluch, Sunnism and the State in Iran From Tribal to Global

Dudoignon Stephane A.

ISBN: HB: 9781849047081, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since 2002 Sunni jihadi groups like Jaysh al-'Adl have been active in Iranian Baluchistan, yet the region remains relatively stable. Dudoignon's book shows that the key reason for this is Tehran's cultivation of good relations...

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Military

White Water Red Hot Lead On Board U.S. Navy Swift Boats in Vietnam

Daly Dan

ISBN: HB: 9781612004785, Casemate, March 2017
336 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

During the Vietnam war 3500 officers and men served in the Swift Boat program in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam, with the average age of the crew being twenty-four. Their days con...

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Political Science

Asia

Complicities The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism

Dirlik Arif

ISBN: PB: 9780996635530, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
86 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting a...

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