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America

Clashing over Commerce A History of US Trade Policy

Irwin Douglas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226678443, ISBN: HB: 9780226398969, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
862 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 21 line drawings

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevit...

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Middle East

Levant Express The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East

Ishay Micheline R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215694, Yale University Press, October 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia's now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human righ...

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Africa

African Americans and Africa A New History

Ibitayo Blyden Nemata Amelia

ISBN: HB: 9780300198669, Yale University Press, July 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

What is an "African American" and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States' first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This work p...

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Europe

Vyborg 1944 The Last Soviet-Finnish Campaign on the Eastern Front

Irincheev Bair

ISBN: HB: 9781912390274, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
176 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 75 black&white photos, colour maps

The war between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1941-44 is much less known in the West and in Russia than the Winter War 1939-40. For Finland the Continuation War is one of cornerstones of national identity. The Vyborg offensive, the battle that ende...

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Europe

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

Ira Jaroslav, Janac Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024635903, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
180 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following the so-called "Material Turn" of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space – specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces...

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Military

End of the Gallop The Battle for Kharkov, February-March 1943

Isaev Aleksei

ISBN: HB: 9781911512974, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
120 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 75 black&white photos, 3 maps, 5 tables

Based heavily on inaccessible Soviet records, this book presents a lively account of a pivotal battle on the Eastern Front, heavily illustrated with rare photographs. In the history of war there are not that many battles that changed one side's stra...

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Asia

Islam

Rohingyas Inside Myanmar's Genocide

Ibrahim Azeem

ISBN: PB: 9781849049733, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
256 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureat...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Dubno 1941 The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War

Isaev Aleksei

ISBN: HB: 9781910777749, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 9 colour illus., 134 black&white photos, 15 maps

In June 1941 – during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union – the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World...

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Current Affairs

Hazaras and the Afghan State Rebellion, Exclusion and the Struggle for Recognition

Ibrahimi Niamatullah

ISBN: HB: 9781849047074, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Hazaras of Afghanistan have borne the brunt of many of the destructive forces unleashed by the establishment of the Afghan monarchy in 1747. The history of their relationship with the Afghan state has been punctuated by fre...

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Middle East

Islam

Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan

Iqtidar Humeira

ISBN: PB: 9780226141732, ISBN: HB: 9780226384689, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
232 pp., 23.1x16 cm

"Secularizing Islamists?" provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing...

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