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Europe

Edge of Irony Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226566177, ISBN: HB: 9780226054421, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 26 halftones

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of...

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Military

Enemies Known and Unknown Targeted Killings in America's Transnational War

McDonald Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781849046442, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the "War on Terror". The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law and spreading democracy, yet...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Eclipse of Action Tragedy and Political Economy

Halpern Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226433653, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the...

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Political Science

Ancient World

Ethics and the Orator The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality

Remer Gary A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439167, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In "Ethics and the Orator", Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder....

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World

Extraordinary Ordinariness Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015

Wendt Simon

ISBN: PB: 9783593506173, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
294 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 25 halftones

Everyday heroes and heroines – ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats – have received only scant attention in heroism scholarship. While scholars have devoted thousands of pages to war heroes, heroic leaders, a...

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America

Evangelical Gotham Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860

Roberts Kyle B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226388144, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 7 maps, 8 tables

At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religi...

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Military

Eureka Stockade A Ferocious and Bloody Battle

Blake Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9781922132048, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
236 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"Eureka Stockade: A Ferocious and Bloody Battle", is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial g...

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Aviation

Military

ETA A Bomber Command Navigator Shot Down and on the Run

Mellor Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780993415258, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

Gordon Mellor served as a navigator with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, and ETA is the first-hand account of a conflict that tests not only his initiative and resilience, but also the ability to survive amidst the extreme dangers of...

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Military

Aviation

Eyes All Over the Sky Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War

Streckfuss James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003672, Casemate, June 2016
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

After the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and Europe began ordering aircraft and experimenting with them. But at the outbreak of World War I in 191...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Extraterritorial Dreams European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century

Abrevaya Stein Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226368221, ISBN: HB: 9780226368191, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, "Extraterritorial Dreams" explores the history...

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