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Practicing Stalinism Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

Getty J. Arch

ISBN: HB: 9780300169294, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white tables

In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office-holding was far less important than proxi...

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Belonging and Genocide Hitler's Community, 1918-1945

Kuhne Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300198287, Yale University Press, September 2013
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What enabled millions of Germans to perpetrate or condone the murder of the Jews? In this illuminating book, Thomas Kuhne offers a provocative answer. In ad...

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Architecture

Europe

City and the King Architecture and Politics in Restoration London

Stevenson Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300190229, Yale University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 23 colour images, 115 black&white illus.

The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Sun Chief The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (Second Edition)

Talayesva Don C., Simmons Leo W., Sakiestewa Gilbert Matthew, Hine Robert V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191035, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in 1942, "Sun Chief" is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how...

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Europe

Orderly and Humane The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

Douglas R. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198201, Yale University Press, September 2013
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 1 map

Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable – between 1...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Geronimo

Utley Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198362, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 maps, 17 black&white illus.

Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache warrior Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a figure of mythical proportion...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 51 Focke-Wulf Ta 154 "Moskito"

Rys Marek

ISBN: PB: 9788362878727, Casemate, Kagero, September 2013
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 2 painting schemes, 129 renders, 60 photos

Not for sale in Poland! This monograph is dedicated to the German Ta 154 night fighter which supposed to be an answer to the British Mosquito. The book covers both Ta 154 development history and the combat record of only few of those fighters ever...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 52 Vought F4U Corsair, Volume I

Szlagor Tomasz, Wieliczko Leszek A.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878734, Casemate, Kagero, September 2013
104 pp., 29.5x21 cm, highly illustrated

Not for sale in Poland! Vought F4U Corsair was one of the best and most famous fighters of World War Two era. Developed since 1938, it didn't see serial production until mid-1942. Initially disqualified for carrier operations, it was handed over to...

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Political Science

Current Affairs

Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Mitchell Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226087313, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tr...

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Asia

In Japan (1893-94)

Korensky Josef

ISBN: HB: 9788024620732, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2013
250 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During his 1893 journey around the world, Czech traveler, pedagogue, and writer Josef Korensky spent only two months traveling in Japan, yet his power of observation yielded a travelogue t...

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