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Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty

Harris J. William

ISBN: PB: 9780300171327, Yale University Press, March 2011
240 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 22 black&white illus.

In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than 500 'Free Negros' in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of GBP 1000 (about $200,000), possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slave owner himself, Jeremiah was...

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Europe

English Aristocracy, 1070-1272 A Social Transformation

Crouch David

ISBN: HB: 9780300114553, Yale University Press, March 2011
384 pp., 23.6x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reig...

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Military

World

Legacy of the Second World War

Lukacs John

ISBN: PB: 9780300171389, Yale University Press, March 2011
208 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm

Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions about World War II that have yet to be explored. In a work that brilliant...

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America

Liberty Bell

Nash Gary B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171426, Yale University Press, March 2011
256 pp., 20.1x13.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has su...

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Ancient World

Ancient Oracles Making the Gods Speak

Stoneman Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300140422, Yale University Press, March 2011
224 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 30 black&white illus.

For more than a thousand years, Greeks in all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colourful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosop...

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Middle East

Palestine Betrayed

Karsh Efraim

ISBN: PB: 9780300172348, Yale University Press, February 2011
336 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shatte...

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America

Political Science

In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

Fellman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300168020, Yale University Press, January 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 9 black&white illus.

With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he belie...

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Asia

Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

Scott James C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300169171, Yale University Press, January 2011
464 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 7 maps, 2 black&white illus.

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them – slavery, co...

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America

Peter's War A New England Slave Boy and the American Revoultion

Malcolm Joyce Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300168068, ISBN: HB: 9780300119305, Yale University Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 4 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the rev...

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World

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Herf Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300168051, ISBN: HB: 9780300145793, Yale University Press, January 2011
352 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused...

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