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Ecology

Middle East

Under Osman's Tree The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History

Mikhail Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226638881, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 tables

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the...

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America

Political Science

Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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Europe

History of Finland Directions, Structures, Turning-Points

Meinander Henrik

ISBN: PB: 9781787380301, ISBN: HB: 9781849040907, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Henrik Meinander paints a brisk and bold picture of the history of Finland from integrated part of the Swedish kingdom to autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, gradually transformed and maturing into a conscious nat...

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Education

Oxford Freemasons A Social History of Apollo University Lodge

Mordaunt Crook Joe, Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781851244676, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
240 pp., 27.8x22.6 cm, 74 colour illus.

Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo – the Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole,...

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Military

America

Thunder in the Harbor Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the American Civil War

Mackowski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781611211856, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2019
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 black&white illus., 4 maps

At 4:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire. Thirty-four hours later, with their supplies running low but their honor satisfied, Federal forces lowered their tattered flag. The only casualty – an accidental death – came...

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Political Science

Africa

Democracy Works Turning Politics to Africa's Advantage

Mills Greg, Obasanjo Olusegun, Biti Tendai, Herbst Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9781787381452, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Democracy Works" asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analysing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a "democratic playbook" robust enough to withstand t...

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Military

America

Stay and Fight it Out The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield

Mackowski Chris, White Kristopher, Davis Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213317, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.

July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinf...

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America

Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake

Musselwhite Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226585284, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

The early Europeans settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some viewed the bay as a wild landscape waiting to be tamed, while others saw potential there for spiritual sanctuary. But all of th...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Europe

Germany's Ancient Pasts Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700

Maner Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226593074, ISBN: HB: 9780226592916, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

In Germany, Nazi ideology casts a long shadow over the history of archaeological interpretation. Propaganda, school curricula, and academic publications under the regime drew spurious conclusions from archaeological evidence to glorify the Germanic p...

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Middle East

Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East

Milton Patrick, Axworthy Michael, Simms Brendan

ISBN: HB: 9781787380233, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal suspicion. It dragged in all the neighbouring powers. It was punctuated by repeated...

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