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Islam and World History The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson

Burke Edmund, Mankin Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226584782, ISBN: HB: 9780226584645, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson's "The Venture of Islam" was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the develop...

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History

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Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World

Black Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780300208672, ISBN: HB: 9780300167955, Yale University Press, June 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Bla...

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Poilu The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

Barthas Louis, Strauss Edward M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212488, Yale University Press, May 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceas...

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Dispatches from Dystopia Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten

Brown Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780226242798, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 7 maps

"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks one chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montan...

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Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique Joints and Fissures

Broeck Sabine, Junker Carsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593501925, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
398 pp., 21x13.9 cm

Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generall...

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Making of the First World War

Beckett Ian F. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300206647, ISBN: HB: 9780300162028, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twe...

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World

Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition

Blight David, Harms Robert, Freamon Bernard K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300163872, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 3 maps

While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing togethe...

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Military

Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Bell P. M. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.

The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...

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