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O'Halpin Eunan, Corrain Daithi O.

ISBN: HB: 9780300123821, Yale University Press, November 2020
704 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 – a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governin...

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America

Surviving Genocide Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Ostler Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300255362, ISBN: HB: 9780300218121, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.

In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts...

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Europe

Age of Reform, 1250-1550 An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

Ozment Steven, Eire Carlos, Rittgers Ronald K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300203554, Yale University Press, August 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three cent...

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Africa

Frontiers in the Gilded Age Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917

Offenburger Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300225877, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop beyond the United States where Americans chased capitalist dreams. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines ho...

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Middle East

Tale of Four Worlds The Arab Region After the Uprisings

Ottaway David, Ottaway Marina

ISBN: HB: 9781787382084, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! First came the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire following World War I; then, in the 1950s and '60s, the Nasser-inspired wave of Arab nationalism and socialism. The Arab world's third great political cataclysm of the past 10...

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Political Science

Middle East

Sites of Pluralism Community Politics in the Middle East

Oruc Firat

ISBN: PB: 9781787380226, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Scholars and policymakers, struggling to make sense of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East, have focused on the possible causes of the escalation in both inter-state and intra-state conflict. But the Arab Spring has shown the...

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Military

Our Latest Longest War Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

O'Connell Aaron B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598567, ISBN: HB: 9780226265650, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. Amer...

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America

History of the Future in Colonial Mexico

O'Hara Matthew D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300233933, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O'Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of "futuremaking." While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin America have long focused on historical...

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America

Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco

Oda Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780226592749, ISBN: HB: 9780226592602, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific", using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newf...

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Military

Crucible of the Jacobite '15 The Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715

Oates Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512899, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 illus.

Just over three centuries ago, there was a major battle in Scotland that was to decide the fate of the newly established – and bitterly contested – union of England and Scotland. On one hand there was a numerically superior army, trained and armed bu...

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