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Asia

Emperor's New Road China and the Project of the Century

Hillman Jonathan E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300244588, Yale University Press, November 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

China's Belt and Road Initiative is the world's most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision. To carry out President Xi Jinping's flagship foreign-policy effort, China promises to spend over one trillion dollars for new ports, railways, fiber-...

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Anthropology

America

Lakota America A New History of Indigenous Power

Hamalainen Pekka

ISBN: PB: 9780300255256, ISBN: HB: 9780300215953, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.

This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty?first century. Pekka Hنmنlنinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter?gatherers and reveals how the...

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America

Nature Shock Getting Lost in America

Coleman Jon T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300227147, Yale University Press, October 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

The human species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people, inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant roots and to break free, are no exception. In this engaging book, environmental historian Jon Coleman bypasses t...

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Africa

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

Falola Toyin, Chijioke Njoku Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9780300234831, Yale University Press, October 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship's evolution, tr...

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Asia

Political Science

Vietnam Rising Dragon (Revised and Updated Edition)

Hayton Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300249637, Yale University Press, October 2020
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 black&white illus.

The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Emperor A New Life of Charles V

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300254860, ISBN: HB: 9780300196528, Yale University Press, October 2020
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 maps

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relen...

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Asia

Invention of China

Hayton Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780300234824, Yale University Press, October 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 2 maps

China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how C...

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America

Journey to Freedom Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement

Blansett Kent

ISBN: PB: 9780300255188, Yale University Press, October 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

<p>A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on...

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Ancient World

Sparta's Second Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C.

Rahe Paul Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300242621, Yale University Press, September 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six-decades-long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars....

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Europe

Substate Dictatorship Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

Gorlizki Yoram, Khlevniuk Oleg

ISBN: HB: 9780300230819, Yale University Press, September 2020
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the ear...

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