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Ship of Death A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World

Smith Billy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300194524, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, one small British ship that circled the Atlantic Ocean in 1792 and 1793, transformed Atlantic World history. This extraordinary book tells the just-uncovered story of the Hankey, from its altruistic begin...

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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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Little Histories

Little History of the World

Gombrich E. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197181, Yale University Press, October 2013
304 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 200 colour illus.

E. H. Gombrich's "Little History of the World", though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book...

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Literary Criticism

Trade and Romance

Murrin Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226071572, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 table

In "Trade and Romance", Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows...

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Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power

France John

ISBN: PB: 9780300197174, ISBN: HB: 9780300120745, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of...

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Biography & Memoires

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Love and Freedom Three Lives in Hitler's Germany and Gandhi's India

Tendulkar Dhaul Laxmi

ISBN: PB: 9789381017661, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 30 halftones

In the early 1930s, Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. There, Ayii, eventually became well-known journalist in Berlin and he met and fell in love with the reno...

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Fortunes of History Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga

Kelley Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205022, Yale University Press, August 2013
442 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

"In Fortunes of History" Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century" – the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analy...

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