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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 4.6, 4.7 & 4.8 The Fortifications of Guernsey-South and East Coasts - Pointe de la Moye - Icart - Fort George

ISBN: PB: 9780957245648, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, November 2013
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, approx. 200 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Flight Gear US Army Force Aviators in Europe 1942-1945

Bianchi Mathieu

ISBN: HB: 9782352503026, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, November 2013
176 pp., 31x23 cm, over 1000 photos

This new book is designed as a guide to the flight clothing and equipment issued to American airmen in Europe, August 1942 (the first bombing mission over France) to May 1945. Hundreds of period photographs and hundreds of detailed pictures of surviv...

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Europe

Making England Western Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture

Makdisi Saree

ISBN: PB: 9780226923147, ISBN: HB: 9780226923130, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The central argument of Edward Said's "Orientalism" is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that pr...

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Cartography

Africa

Mastering the Niger James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery

Lambert David

ISBN: HB: 9780226078069, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In "Mastering the Niger", David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of "A New Map of Africa" in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery – as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political strugg...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan

Hirano Katsuya

ISBN: PB: 9780226060569, ISBN: HB: 9780226060422, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination", Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-d...

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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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Medieval

Europe

Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors

Sullivan Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226104324, ISBN: HB: 9780226781679, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and political circumstances and neglecting the role of the inquisitors themselves. In this volume, Karen Sullivan sheds much-needed light...

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America

Fire under the Ashes An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

Donoghue John

ISBN: HB: 9780226157658, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

In "Fire under the Ashes", John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of se...

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Europe

Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800 A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes

Cochrane Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226111513, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map

The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades of the sixteenth century. They thus give the impre...

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Africa

General

Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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