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Middle East

Forgotten Frontier A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier

Hess Andrew C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226330310, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 9 figures, 4 tables, 1 halftone

The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties...

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America

Fruitlands The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

Francis Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300140415, Yale University Press, November 2010
336 pp., 23.1x16.5 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of...

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Current Affairs

Political Science

First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition

Totten Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124484, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...

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America

Furs and Frontiers in the Far North The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

Bockstoce John R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167993, Yale University Press, September 2010
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 42 black&white illus.

This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and...

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Europe

Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300168891, Yale University Press, August 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their re...

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America

Military

Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Geiger Mark W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300151510, Yale University Press, July 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience i...

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America

Political Science

Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate

Koger Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226449654, ISBN: HB: 9780226449647, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 51 line illus.

In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislativ...

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America

For All the World to See Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Berger Maurice

ISBN: HB: 9780300121315, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 125 illus.

In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

F/Rf-4e Phantom II

Anestis Alexandros, Papadimitriou George

ISBN: PB: 9789606740756, Casemate, Periscopio Publications, March 2010
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 400 colour photos, 30 colour profiles, 8 scale plans

We are glad to introduce to you the third volume of Periscopio's series of modelling and historical reference publications under the title "PHOTO GALLERY & PROFILES". This volume covers in 140 pages the most successful versions of an aeroplane that r...

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Military

From Genocide to Continental War The "Congolese" Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa

Prunier Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9781850656654, Hurst Publishers, March 2009
576 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the largely Tutsi RPF government built a repressive regime after a short pretence at national reconciliation, while hundreds of thousands of Hutu, many of whom had perpetrated the genocide...

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