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Business & Economics

Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table

The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...

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Europe

European Seaborne Empires From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions

Paquette Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300205152, Yale University Press, July 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the development of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to re-examine their dev...

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Military

America

Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War

Darda Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...

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Africa

Everything You Have Told Me Is True The Many Faces of Al Shabaab

Harper Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781787381247, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Al Shabaab is one of the century's most successful violent jihadist movements. It has governing power, ruling over millions of Somalis and vast swathes of territory, and kinetic power, committing spectacular acts of violence. B...

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Europe

Engineering the Eternal City Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

Long Pamela O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591285, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 halftones

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hund...

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Asia

End of the Asian Century War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

Auslin Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239980, ISBN: HB: 9780300212228, Yale University Press, October 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to wa...

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Ancient World

Enraged Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Anhalt Emily Katz

ISBN: PB: 9780300239966, ISBN: HB: 9780300217377, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's "Iliad", Euripides' "Hecuba", and Sophocles' "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed bef...

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Middle East

Ecology

Environmental Politics in the Middle East Local Struggles, Global Connections

Verhoeven Harry

ISBN: PB: 9781849049672, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book investigates how ecology and politics meet in the Middle East and how those interactions connect to the global political economy. Through region-wide analyses and case studies from the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf of A...

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World

Biography & Memoires

Empress Queen Victoria and India

Taylor Miles

ISBN: HB: 9780300118094, Yale University Press, August 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately involved with the country throughout her reign and not just in...

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Europe

Estonia A Modern History

Taylor Neil

ISBN: PB: 9781849049573, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations – yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Ne...

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