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America

Defiance of the Patriots The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

Carp Benjamin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178128, ISBN: HB: 9780300117059, Yale University Press, September 2011
328 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 33 black&white illus.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbour. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary a...

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America

When London was Capital of America

Flavell Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780300178135, Yale University Press, August 2011
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Geor...

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America

Military

War by Land, Sea, and Air Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command

Jablonsky David

ISBN: PB: 9780300171358, Yale University Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U. S. military – a concept that eventually led to the c...

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Music

Windfall of Musicians Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California

Crawford Dorothy Lamb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171235, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influ...

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Africa

Islam

Islamization from Below The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

Peterson Brian J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300152708, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian Peterson considers for the first time how...

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Europe

Strawberry Hill Press and its Printing House

Clarke Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300170405, Yale University Press, May 2011
152 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 colour illus.

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of the books, pamphlets and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of the Press draws on a remarkabl...

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Current Affairs

America

Prison and the American Imagination

Smith Caleb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171495, Yale University Press, May 2011
258 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particular...

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Middle East

Asia

Imagining Zion Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement

Troen S. Ilan

ISBN: PB: 9780300178531, Yale University Press, April 2011
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientis...

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Military

Middle East

Afghanistan How the West Lost Its Way

Bird Tim, Marshall Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780300154573, Yale University Press, April 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more democratic government aligned to Western interests, was swiftly achieved. However, stabilizing the country in the ensuing yea...

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Europe

Solovki The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

Robson Roy R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178517, Yale University Press, April 2011
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers...

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