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Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
ISBN: HB: 9780300151510, Yale University Press, July 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience i...
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£57,00
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Credit Between Cultures Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780300181289, Yale University Press, July 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Award-winning anthropologist Parker Shipton brings a variety of persepectives-philosophical, political, and religious-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa.
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£25,00
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Not the Enemy   Israel's Jews from Arab Lands
ISBN: PB: 9780300167696, Yale University Press, July 2010
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In this remarkable, page-turning book, Rachel Shabi lays bare the painful division within Israeli society between Ashkenazi Jews, whose families come from Eastern Europe, and Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews, who come from the Arab countries of the Middle E...
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£21,50
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Bite the Hand that Feeds You Essays and Provocations
ISBN: PB: 9780300164602, Yale University Press, July 2010
368 pp., 21x14 cm
Henry Fairlie was one of the most colourful and trenchant journalists of the twentieth century. The British-born writer made his name on Fleet Street, where he coined the term 'The Establishment', sparred in print with the likes of Kenneth Tynan, and...
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£32,00
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Kirov Murder and Soviet History
ISBN: HB: 9780300112368, Yale University Press, June 2010
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash...
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£73,00
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For All the World to See Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
ISBN: HB: 9780300121315, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 125 illus.
In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their...
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£30,00
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Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America
ISBN: PB: 9780300164220, ISBN: HB: 9780300110548, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 44 black&white illus.
Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...
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£33,00
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£30,00
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Empty Bottles of Gentilism Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)
ISBN: HB: 9780300155389, Yale University Press, April 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this book – the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought – Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late...
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£49,00
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Spies The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300164381, Yale University Press, April 2010
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era...
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£18,99
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Enlightened Pleasures Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism
ISBN: HB: 9780300140941, Yale University Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue – a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly...
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£62,00
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