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Limits of Detente The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973

Daigle Craig

ISBN: HB: 9780300167139, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis,...

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Problem of Slavery as History A Global Approach

Miller Joseph C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300113150, Yale University Press, February 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Why did slavery – an accepted evil for thousands of years – suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Jose...

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Caribbean A History of the Region and Its Peoples

Palmie Stephan, Scarano Francisco A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226645087, ISBN: HB: 9780226645063, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
624 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 2 figures, 1 table, 71 halftones

Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the co...

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Three Ways to Be Alien Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World

Subrahmanyam Sanjay

ISBN: PB: 9781584659921, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2011
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Sanjay Subrahmanyam's "Three Ways to Be Alien" draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian"...

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Aborigines' Protection Society Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1837-1909

Heartfield James

ISBN: HB: 9781849041201, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For more than seventy years, the Aborigines' Protection Society, a select group of the great and the good, fought for the natives of the British Empire and against the tide of white supremacy to defend the interests of aborigin...

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Legacy of the Second World War

Lukacs John

ISBN: PB: 9780300171389, Yale University Press, March 2011
208 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm

Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions about World War II that have yet to be explored. In a work that brilliant...

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Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Herf Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300168051, ISBN: HB: 9780300145793, Yale University Press, January 2011
352 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused...

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Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany

Evans Andrew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...

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Spies The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

Haynes John Earl, Klehr Harvey, Vassiliev Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780300164381, Yale University Press, April 2010
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era...

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Philip II of Macedonia

Worthington Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300164763, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and films. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time, and con...

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