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America

From Power to Prejudice The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America

Gordon Leah N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419411, ISBN: HB: 9780226238449, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intell...

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Middle East

Pearl of Khorasan A History of Herat

Gammell C. P. W.

ISBN: HB: 9781849046541, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has been much more than simply a staging post or plaything of political ambition. It has be...

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America

Founders as Fathers The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries

Glover Lorri

ISBN: PB: 9780300219746, ISBN: HB: 9780300178609, Yale University Press, August 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America's great Founding Fathers – men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and int...

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America

American Guides The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture

Griswold Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226357836, ISBN: HB: 9780226357669, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings, 45 tables

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate – and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a re...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Aircraft Carrier Taiho

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788364596759, Casemate, Kagero, July 2016
92 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, full colour throughout

Not for sale in Poland! The design work on the new carrier commenced as early as 1937 and the initial design was unveiled on 27 November and received the number "02". On 21 July 1938 corrections were done to the design and it was approved. The ship...

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Military

Long Watch War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka

Galappatti Sunila

ISBN: HB: 9781849046404, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "A Long Watch" is the story of the highest-ranking prisoner detained by the Tamil Tigers during Sri Lanka's civil war, a naval officer pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea. For eight years Commodore Boyagoda lived at...

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Europe

General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Hitler's Geographies The Spatialities of the Third Reich

Giaccaria Paolo, Minca Claudio

ISBN: HB: 9780226274423, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"Lebensraum": the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to living space. "Entfernung": the expulsion of "undesirables" to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number...

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Military

Ottoman Culture of Defeat The Balkan Wars and their Aftermath

Ginio Eyal

ISBN: HB: 9781849045414, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
260 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the first Balkan War broke out in October 1912, few Ottomans anticipated that it would prove to be a watershed moment for the Empire, ending in ignominy, national catastrophe, and the loss of its remaining provinces in the...

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Political Science

Middle East

Missionaries of Modernity Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony, from the 1940s to Afghanistan

Giustozzi Antonio, Kalinovsky Artemy

ISBN: HB: 9781849044806, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1940s onwards, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on Afghanistan during the Soviet...

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