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Military

Civil War London A Military History of London under Charles I and Oliver Cromwell

Flintham David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512622, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus.

London was the critical location throughout the English Civil Wars – a fact that has been emphasised by countless historians, with some going as far to say that by fleeing his capital in January 1642, King Charles I lost the war several months before...

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History

Military

Faces from the Front Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery

Bamji Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512660, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 colour illus., 232 black&white illus., 2 tables

"Faces from the Front" examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not n...

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Anthropology

Africa

Matatu A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

Mutongi Kenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226471396, ISBN: HB: 9780226130866, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus – colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed o...

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General

America

Making the Unequal Metropolis School Desegregation and Its Limits

Erickson Ansley T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528915, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's "Making the Unequal Metropolis" presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school polici...

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Middle East

Instability in the Middle East Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2012

Cerny Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024634272, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration,...

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Africa

Lebanon A Country in Fragments

Arsan Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781849047005, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Lebanon can seem a country in the grip of permanent crisis. Political infighting has paralysed its institutions, and its economy is barely treading water, pulled under by the effects of the Syrian Civil War, which has disrupted...

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Africa

Making Africa Work A Handbook

Mills Greg, Obasanjo Olusegun, Herbst Jeffrey, Davis Dickie

ISBN: PB: 9781849048736, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the next generation, Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big, inter-related challenges. Its population will double to 2 billion by 2045. By then, more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly you...

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Military

Anthropology

Military Anthropology Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire

McFate Montgomery

ISBN: HB: 9781849048125, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan,...

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Military

True to their Salt Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces

Johnson R. W.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044257, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the last decade an Iraqi Army and an Afghan National Army were created entirely from scratch, the founding of which was deemed to be a crucial measure for the establishment of security and the withdrawal of Western forces fr...

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Political Science

Military

Why Comrades Go to War Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict

Verhoeven Harry, Roessler Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781849049085, ISBN: HB: 9781849046527, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara t...

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