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Edward II

Phillips Seymour

ISBN: PB: 9780300178029, Yale University Press, October 2011
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his spora...

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World

Caribbean A History of the Region and Its Peoples

Palmie Stephan, Scarano Francisco A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226645087, ISBN: HB: 9780226645063, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
624 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 2 figures, 1 table, 71 halftones

Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the co...

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Book in the Renaissance

Pettegree Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300178210, Yale University Press, September 2011
440 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegr...

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Africa

Islam

Islamization from Below The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

Peterson Brian J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300152708, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian Peterson considers for the first time how...

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Europe

Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism

Payne Stanley G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178326, Yale University Press, April 2011
418 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the rol...

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Europe

1688 The First Modern Revolution

Pincus Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780300171433, Yale University Press, March 2011
664 pp., 25.1x17.5 cm, 72 black&white illus.

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution – bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this t...

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Asia

From Mao to Market China Reconfigured

Porter Robin

ISBN: PB: 9781849040839, Hurst Publishers, February 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the past thirty years, China has been entering inexorably onto the world stage, and into the world's imagination. From now on, there will be a 'China dimension' to almost everything we do. "From Mao to Market" is intended...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

60 Years Of Combat Aircraft - from WWI to Vietnam War 1914-1974

Pautigny Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9782352501176, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, December 2010
164 pp., 32x23.5 cm, 400 profiles & illustrations

From the Battle of the Marne to the end of the Vietnam War, this "first half" of the 20th Century must undeniably be considered as the period of greatest development for aerial warfare. With the 400 profiles and illustrations contained in this book...

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Culture Studies

Africa

Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman

Parsons Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226647425, ISBN: HB: 9780226647418, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh – whose stage name was Clicko – performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "...

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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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