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Emigration and the Sea An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese

Newitt Malyn

ISBN: PB: 9781849044165, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions...

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Africa

Creating Africas Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land

Nustad Knut G.

ISBN: PB: 9781849042581, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. "Creating Africas" investi...

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Military

Europe

France 1940 Defending the Republic

Nord Philip G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300189872, Yale University Press, March 2015
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with German...

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Military

Kangzhan Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937-1945

Ness Leland, Shih Bin

ISBN: PB: 9781910294420, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
624 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 maps, 100 tables, 300 black&white illus.

"Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937-1945" is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. The work integrates Chinese, Japanese and Western sources to examin...

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Medieval

Feast for the Eyes Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet

Normore Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780226242200, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 35 halftones

To read accounts of late medieval banquets is to enter a fantastic world where live lions guard nude statues, gilded stags burst into song, and musicians play from within pies. Such vivid works of art and performance required collaboration among arti...

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America

Global Republic America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power

Ninkovich Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226164731, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world's stage. The country's economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy, and its leading position in international institutions tend to be seen as the result of a lo...

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Asia

Destruction of Hyderabad

Noorani A. G.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044394, Hurst Publishers, August 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The fascinating story of the fall of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad has till now been dominated by the "court historians" of Indian nationalism. In this book A. G. Noorani offers a revisionist account of the Indian Army...

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America

Harnessed to the Pole Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909

Nickerson Sheila

ISBN: PB: 9781602232235, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 15 maps

In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those...

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Europe

Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada

Nunez Muley Francisco

ISBN: PB: 9780226103037, ISBN: HB: 9780226547268, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones, 2 maps

Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century – including the forced conversion of its native Muslim populatio...

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Military

Political Science

Putin's New Order in the Middle East

Nizameddin Talal

ISBN: HB: 9781849042598, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
358 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Vladimir Putin has almost by stealth transformed himself into an historic Russian figure. His undeniable political dominance was reflected in his return to presidential control after the March 2012 elections, having placed an o...

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