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Ethnic Power Mobilized Can South Africa Change?

Adam Heribert, Giliomee Hermann

ISBN: PB: 9780300184051, Yale University Press, November 2011
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This study questions conventional wisdom about the nature and outcome of the South African conflict. Avoiding both wishful thinkiong and mere moralizing, Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomee critically examine the applicability of such concepts as colo...

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Asia

Political Science

Anti-Marcos Struggle Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines

Thompson Mark R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184150, Yale University Press, November 2011
274 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos was characterized by family-based rule and corruption. This sultanistic regime-in which the ruler exercised power freely, without loyalty to any ideology or institution-had to be brought down because...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Edward II

Phillips Seymour

ISBN: PB: 9780300178029, Yale University Press, October 2011
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his spora...

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Biography & Memoires

Middle East

Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France, Queen of England

Turner Ralph V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178203, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two so...

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Middle East

Biography & Memoires

Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Hornblum Allen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177572, ISBN: HB: 9780300156768, Yale University Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assig...

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Military

America

Unwarranted Influence Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex

Ledbetter James

ISBN: PB: 9780300177626, Yale University Press, October 2011
280 pp., 21x14 cm

In "Dwight" D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex", a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World...

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Ancient World

Military

Battle of Marathon

Krentz Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...

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Europe

Political Science

Hour of Europe Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Glaurdic Josip

ISBN: HB: 9780300166293, Yale University Press, October 2011
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H. W. Bush...

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Europe

Book in the Renaissance

Pettegree Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300178210, Yale University Press, September 2011
440 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegr...

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Europe

Ralph Tailor's Summer A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

Wrightson Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780300174472, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed as others fled: the scrivener Ralph Tailor....

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