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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates
As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...
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£24,00
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Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City
ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables
Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...
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Boccaccio's "Decameron" Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780866986069, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
554 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This study develops a new interpretation of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, which has found new popularity in the wake of COVID. Dino S. Cervigni offers an inclusive and novel reading of the collection, theorizing that the first nine...
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£88,00
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Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates
In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...
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£60,00
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Bhutto Dynasty The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9780300246674, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.
The Bhutto family has long been one of the most ambitious and powerful in Pakistan. But politics has cost the Bhuttos dear. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, widely regarded as the most talented politician in the country's history, was removed from power in 1977...
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£20,00
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Battle for Syria International Rivalry in the New Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9780300249910, Yale University Press, August 2020
384 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Updated with two new chapters, this book exposes the profound influence of the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar in Syria's bloody conflict and explores the implications of the perceived decline of American power in the Mid...
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£12,99
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Bookshop of the World Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300254792, Yale University Press, August 2020
496 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 70 colour illus.
The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch wo...
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Bread Winner An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780300230062, Yale University Press, April 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
The Victorian era saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's prosperity. Many families continued to live in grinding poverty with women and children usually faring worst. In this incisive account...
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Bankrupt in America A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226679563, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 8 tables
In 2005, more than two million Americans – six out of every 1,000 people – filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In "Ban...
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£44,00
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Behind the Enemy Lines
ISBN: PB: 9788875654429, Bookport, IBN Editore, October 2019
136 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.
Between the spring and autumn of 1944, the Luftwaffe constituted a constant threat to the incursions of the MAAF (Mediterranean Allied Air Forces), and the losses in men and aircraft were even more substantial. In the span of a few months, between th...
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