ledochowicz.com

Political Science

Africa

Eye of the Needle Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa

Turner Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780857422378, Seagull Books, May 2015
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by th...

HB:

£16,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Military

Death of Mehdi Army The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq's Most Powerful Militia

Krohley Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781849044349, Hurst Publishers, May 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Mehdi Army militia was a towering force in Iraq during the early years of the post-Saddam era. As an aggressive opponent of foreign occupation and one of the principal antagonists in Iraq's brutal sectarian civil war, the m...

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Genoa, "La Superba" The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower

Walton Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781849045124, Hurst Publishers, May 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Genoa has an incredible story to tell. It rose from an obscurity imposed by its harsh geography to become a merchant-pirate superpower that helped create the medieval world. It fought bitter battles with its great rival Venice...

PB:

£14,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Middle East

Pakistan Paradox Instability and Resilience

Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9781849043298, Hurst Publishers, May 2015
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Competing Visions of Empire Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

Swingen Abigail L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300187540, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Abigail L. Swingen's insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England's original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and...

HB:

£65,00

QTY:

add books to the list

America

Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures

Lavin Lucianne, Grant-Costa Paul, Volpe Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300212587, ISBN: HB: 9780300186642, Yale University Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 37 colour illus., 235 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking volume on the rich 13,000-plus-year history and culture of Connecticut's indigenous peoples More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written record...

PB:

£14,99

QTY:

HB:

£65,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy c. 1100 to c. 1440

Romano Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300169072, Yale University Press, April 2015
280 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

Cathedrals and civic palaces stand to this day as symbols of the dynamism and creativity of the city-states that flourished in Italy during the Middle Ages. "Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy" argues that the bustling yet impermanent sites o...

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

World

Allure of the Archives

Farge Arlette, Scott-Railton Thomas, Zemon Davis Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9780300198935, Yale University Press, April 2015
150 pp., 21x14 cm

Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portraya...

PB:

£14,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Jewish Studies

Liberation of the Camps The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Stone Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300204575, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet...

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Military

Rebuilding Britain The Aftermath of the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294451, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Undoubtedly, the Second World War was one of the darkest periods of history. With untold losses and countless with physical and mental scars, there was little to celebrate except the relief of closure. Yet what happened once the noise of the shelling...

PB:

£19,00

QTY:

add books to the list