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In Pursuit of Civility Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

Thomas Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300251524, ISBN: HB: 9780300235777, Yale University Press, April 2020
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour illus.

What did it mean to be 'civilized' in Early Modern England? Keith Thomas's seminal studies "Religion and the Decline of Magic", "Man and the Natural World", and "The Ends of Life", explored the beliefs, values and social practices of the years bet...

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In Quest of History On Czech Statehood and Identity

Priban Jiri, Hvizdala Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024642673, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiri Priban and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvizdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech...

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Iceland's 1100 Years History of a Marginal Society

Karlsson Gunnar

ISBN: PB: 9781849049115, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Iceland's 1100 Years" recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as lat...

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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye Keeping Spain out of World War II

Simmons Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612006857, Casemate, September 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 22 black&white photos, 6 maps

Fascinating account of how intelligence and espionage were enacted to stop Spain from joining the Axis during World War II A highly readable account describing the colourful characters and unbelieveable schemes involved This book will appeal to those...

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Education

Intellectual Properties of Learning A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

Willinsky John

ISBN: HB: 9780226487922, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products...

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Military

In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag The Violence of Stalin's Labor Camps

Alexopoulos Golfo

ISBN: HB: 9780300179415, Yale University Press, April 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labo...

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Asia

Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India

Tharoor Shashi

ISBN: HB: 9781849048088, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Inglorious Empire" tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. India was Bri...

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General

Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

Thrush Coll

ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...

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Biography & Memoires

Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300216950, Yale University Press, November 2015
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 colour illus.,14 black&white illus.

Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of t...

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