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Apocalyptic Realm Jihad in South Asia

Hiro Dilip

ISBN: HB: 9780300173789, Yale University Press, March 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

This hard hitting and timely book explores the roots of militant Islam in South Asia and how it has grown to become a source of profound global alarm. Dilip Hiro tracks the growth of the jihadist movement from its first violent activities in Afghanis...

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Military

Wars of the Roses

Hicks Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300181579, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished hi...

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America

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 40 May 16 Through September 15, 1783

Cohn Ellen R., Dull Jonathan R., Ohno Kate M., Anderson Alicia K., Garbooshian Adrina, Sletcher Michael, Ziesche Philipp, Cain Alysia M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300165463, Yale University Press, February 2012
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

During the period of this volume, the United States of America completed its transformation into a fully recognized independent nation. In May, Franklin and his fellow American peace commissioners John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens recommenced t...

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Europe

King Stephen

King Edmund

ISBN: PB: 9780300181951, Yale University Press, February 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Ed...

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Anthropology

America

Cuban Fiestas

Echevarria Roberto Gonzalez

ISBN: PB: 9780300177886, ISBN: HB: 9780300167061, Yale University Press, February 2012
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 17 colour illus.

In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls "watching them at...

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Culture Studies

America

Havana Habit

Perez Firmat Gustavo

ISBN: PB: 9780300177893, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 20x13.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U. S. coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging "H...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Israel An Introduction

Rubin Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780300162301, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 86 black&white illus.

This comprehensive book provides a well-rounded introduction to Israel – a definitive account of the nation's past, its often controversial present, and much more. Edited by a leading historian of the Middle East, "Israel" is organized around six maj...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Stalin Cult A Study in the Alchemy of Power

Plamper Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300169522, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 21 colour images, 62 black&white illus.

Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet...

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Culture Studies

America

Hollywood Sign Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon

Braudy Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780300181456, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 20.7x14.1 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so many who see its image, the sign represents th...

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World

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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