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1st Bedfordshires Part Two: Arras to the Armistice
ISBN: HB: 9780957116320, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, December 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
The second part of Steven Fuller's history of the 1st Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment, covering the period from October 1916 until the end of the war. In the final two years of the Great War the 1st Bedfordshires were engaged at the Battle of Ar...
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£19,00
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American Indians Fourth Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226312392, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 20 halftones
William Hagan's classic "American Indians" has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arri...
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£19,50
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Fur Farms of Alaska Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede
ISBN: PB: 9781602231719, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2012
230 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 50 halftones
After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being s...
PB:
£22,50
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Orientalism and War
ISBN: PB: 9781849042086, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Orientalism is a system of truths that imagines the world can be meaningfully understood in terms of a distinction between 'West' and 'East' from the Greek and Persian Wars onwards. It is also about an institutionalised communi...
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£30,00
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Unmaking North and South Cartographies of the Yemeni Past
ISBN: PB: 9781850659815, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Unmaking North and South" revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction of Yemen's north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader context of imperial rule, state formation, an...
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£50,00
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From Peace to Freedom Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761
ISBN: HB: 9780300180770, Yale University Press, November 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This is the first book to investigate the development of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends. Through meticulous examination of the earliest writings of the Friends, including diaries and letters, Brycchan Carey reveals the...
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£46,00
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Civil War and American Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300187335, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 177 colour images, 37 black&white illus.
The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamo...
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£40,00
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Black Ranching Frontiers African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
ISBN: HB: 9780300179927, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 52 black&white illus.
In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the h...
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£53,00
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Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941 The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon
ISBN: HB: 9781908916501, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2012
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths an...
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£55,00
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Needle in the Bone How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other
ISBN: HB: 9781612345680, Casemate, Potomac Books, November 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.
"Needle in the Bone" highlights the astonishing stories of two Poles – a Holocaust survivor, Lou Frydman, and a Polish resistance fighter, Jarek Piekalkewicz. As mere teenagers during World War II, they defied daunting odds, lost everything and nearl...
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£18,00
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