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Africa

Democracy Works Turning Politics to Africa's Advantage

Mills Greg, Obasanjo Olusegun, Biti Tendai, Herbst Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9781787381452, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Democracy Works" asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analysing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a "democratic playbook" robust enough to withstand t...

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Europe

Designs of Destruction The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century

Allais Lucia

ISBN: HB: 9780226286556, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 123 halftones

The twentieth century was the most destructive in human history, but from its vast landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I, an international movement arose which aimed to protect archit...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Domina The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

de la Bedoyere Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230307, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 maps

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

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Middle East

Political Science

Defeat is an Orphan How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War

MacDonald Myra

ISBN: PB: 9781787380288, ISBN: HB: 9781849046411, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size a...

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Africa

Anthropology

Dark Inheritance Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica

Newman Brooke N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225556, Yale University Press, August 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status....

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Middle East

Duleep Singh's Statue East Anglia's Lost Maharajah

Harrison Fraser

ISBN: PB: 9781909930667, Signal Books, August 2018
256 pp., 21x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! At the age of five Duleep Singh became the last Maharajah of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. He was still a child when the British annexed the Punjab in 1849 and forced him to sign a punitive treaty. He was made to give up his...

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Europe

Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank

Drapal Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024637303, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drapal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Her...

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Military

Days of Battle Armoured Operations North of the River Danube, Hungary 1944-45

Szamveber Norbert

ISBN: PB: 9781912174263, ISBN: HB: 9781907677649, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 16 maps

"Days of Battle" describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. In three separate studies, Dr Norbert Szamveber, drawing from files and documentation from German, Hungarian and Soviet sources, presents det...

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Military

Europe

Drive on Moscow, 1941 Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis in World War II

Zetterling Niklas

ISBN: PB: 9781612005966, Casemate, May 2018
288 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 pages of photos

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensi...

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Europe

Political Science

Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880

Sawyer Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226544465, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democrati...

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