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America

Emperor of Liberty Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Cogliano Francis D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179934, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps

This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers a compelling reinterpretation of his attitudes and accomplishments as a statesman during America's early nationhood. Beginning with Jefferson's disastrous st...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Exit Berlin How One Family Saved Itself from Nazi Germany

Bonelli Charlotte, Bodemann Natascha, Lipstadt Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197525, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became transla...

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Military

Political Science

Endgame for ETA Elusive Peace in the Basque Country

Whitfield Teresa

ISBN: PB: 9781849043465, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
402 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied e...

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Europe

Public Health

Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France

Osborne Michael A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226114521, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France" examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was i...

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Europe

Europe in Modern Greek History

Featherstone Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9781849042468, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Europe', 'Europeanness' and 'European' have been important themes in the history of modern Greece, from the establishment of the new state in 1832 to the sovereign debt crisis of 2010. 'Europe' has served as key reference point...

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Europe

Economy of Glory From Ancien Regime France to the Fall of Napoleon

Morrissey Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226924588, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

From the outset of Napoleon's career, the charismatic Corsican was compared to mythic heroes of antiquity like Achilles, and even today he remains the apotheosis of French glory, a value deeply embedded in the country's history. From this angle, the...

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Current Affairs

General

End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future

Lemos Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...

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Middle East

Political Science

Egypt on the Brink From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood

Osman Tarek

ISBN: PB: 9780300198690, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 20 illus.

In February 2011, following an extraordinary eighteen days of continual protest by the Egyptian people, President Mubarak agreed to resign, bringing thirty years of a repressive and stagnant regime to an end. In June 2012, a new president was elected...

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Europe

Enlightenment's Frontier The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780300162547, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 maps, 7 black&white illus.

"Enlightenment's Frontier" looks at the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment – which gave birth to modern-day environmentalism – and sheds new light on Scottish thinkers such as Carl Linneaus, David Hume and Adam Smith. In this groundbreaking ne...

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Africa

Political Science

Ethiopian Revolution War in the Horn of Africa

Tareke Gebru, Kagan Donald, Kagan Frederick

ISBN: PB: 9780300204148, Yale University Press, July 2013
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...

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