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SMI Library, No. 11 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with the USAAF - European Theater of Operations

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596681, Casemate, Kagero, September 2015
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 131 black&white photos, 14 colour photos, 11 colour profiles of the 12 throws

Not for sale in Poland! The North American P-51 Mustang powered by the British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin/Packard engine was, quite simply, the best long-range escort fighter of the World War Two era. Entering service in November 1943, it curtaile...

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America

Sister's Memories The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott

Sorensen John

ISBN: PB: 9780226209616, ISBN: HB: 9780226209586, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Among the great figures of Progressive Era reform, Edith and Grace Abbott are perhaps the least sung. Peers, companions, and coworkers of legendary figures such as Jane Addams and Sophonisba Breckinridge, the Abbott sisters were nearly omnipresent in...

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America

Boundaries of the State in US History

Sparrow James T., Novak William J., Sawyer Stephen W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226277783, ISBN: HB: 9780226277646, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The question of how the American state defines its power has become central to a range of historical topics, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Yet c...

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America

Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860

Schermerhorn Jack Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780300192001, Yale University Press, August 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Calvin Schermerhorn's provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demo...

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Europe

Origins of Corporations The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages

Sicard Germain, Landry Matthew, Goetzmann William N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300156485, Yale University Press, August 2015
528 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Germain Sicard proves that Europe's first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives fr...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Japanese Aircraft Carriers Soryu and Hiryu

Skwiot Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9788364596520, Casemate, Kagero, August 2015
100 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 82 archive photos, 30 drawings, 16 colour profiles, 1 map

Not for sale in Poland! Soryu meaning "Blue (or Green) Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the mid-1930s. A sister ship, Hiryu, was intended to follow Soryu, but Hiryu's design was heavily modified and...

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Europe

Vital Minimum Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France

Simmons Dana

ISBN: HB: 9780226251561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 tables

What constitutes a need? Who gets to decide what people do or do not need? In modern France, scientists, both amateur and professional, were engaged in defining and measuring human needs. These scientists did not trust in a providential economy to di...

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America

Power to Die Slavery and Suicide in British North America

Snyder Terri L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226280561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 table

The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they j...

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Africa

Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris

Snedden Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849043427, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) – popularly called 'Kashmir' – and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India...

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Middle East

Revolt in Syria Eye-Witness to the Uprising

Starr Stephen Z.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044509, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
176 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was "stable" and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of Syrians took to the stre...

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