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Singer's Needle An Undisciplined History of Panama
ISBN: PB: 9780226342450, ISBN: HB: 9780226342313, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panama that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved criti...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Lost Black Scholar Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780226754437, ISBN: HB: 9780226534886, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Allison Davis (1902-1983), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America's...
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£24,00
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£34,00
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City on a Hill A History of American Exceptionalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300229752, Yale University Press, April 2020
392 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 19 black&white illus.
In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase "City on a Hill", from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthro...
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£25,00
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Running the Numbers Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling
ISBN: HB: 9780226690445, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today's lotteries can be found in an African American gambl...
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£28,00
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Heineken in Africa A Multinational Unleashed
ISBN: HB: 9781849049023, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
240 pp., 24.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! For Heineken, "rising Africa" is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs more in some African countries than it does in Europe. Heineken claims its presen...
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£20,00
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Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State
ISBN: HB: 9780300208269, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded "in a fit of absence of mind". He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the mod...
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£40,00
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We Have Not a Government The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
ISBN: PB: 9780226641522, ISBN: HB: 9780226480503, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables
In 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of Confederation. Just four years later, that same government co...
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£15,00
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£24,00
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Apartheid Guns and Money A Tale of Profit
ISBN: HB: 9781787380974, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and a...
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£25,00
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Secret Expedition The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland 1799
ISBN: HB: 9781912390205, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 23 images, 20 photos, 8 colour maps
In 1799, as part of the Second Coalition against France, an Anglo-Russian army landed in Holland to overthrow the Batavian Republic and to reinstate the Stadtholder William V of Orange. Initially called "The Secret Expedition", although not really a...
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£29,00
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Battle of Cherkassy
ISBN: HB: 9781612006031, Casemate, September 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 maps
In 1943 the tide began to turn against Germany on the Eastern Front. Their summer offensive, Operation Citadel, was a failure, and the Red Army seized the initiative, despite appallingly high losses. Waging a war of attrition, the Russians gradually...
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£19,00
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