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English Aristocracy, 1070-1272 A Social Transformation

Crouch David

ISBN: HB: 9780300114553, Yale University Press, March 2011
384 pp., 23.6x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English aristocracy between the reig...

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Euphoria and Exhaustion Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society

Katzer Nikolaus, Budy Sandra, Kohring Alexandra, Zeller Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9783593392905, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...

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America

Envisioning the Nation The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture

Boger Astrid

ISBN: PB: 9783593387901, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
321 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. But as Astrid Boger shows in "Envisioning the Nation", at the same time the fairs played i...

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Culture Studies

Encyclopedia of New York City Second Edition

Jackson Kenneth T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114652, Yale University Press, January 2011
1600 pp., 27.7x21.8 cm, 752 black&white illus.

Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its f...

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Jewish Studies

Escape from the Nazis The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland

Mandelkern Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9781550280555, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, January 2011
211 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm

Ben Mandelkern was only 23 when the Nazis invaded his native Poland in September 1939. From then until the end of the war his one concern was survival. Like other Polish Jews, Ben and his young wife, Helena, came face to face with the evil of Nazism...

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Europe

Enlightenment A Genealogy

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184494, ISBN: HB: 9780226184470, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
184 pp., 21.5x13 cm

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first em...

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Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

Sher Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752532, ISBN: HB: 9780226752525, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
848 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 45 halftones, 16 line illus.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these semina...

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Asia

Eurasian Crossroads A History of Xinjiang

Millward James A.

ISBN: HB: 9781849040679, Hurst Publishers, May 2010
440 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Xinjiang, the vast northwestern region comprising one sixth of the PRC today, borders on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Russia and Mongolia. Since antiquity it has stood at the crossroads betwe...

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Ancient World

Empty Bottles of Gentilism Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)

Oakley Francis

ISBN: HB: 9780300155389, Yale University Press, April 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this book – the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought – Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late...

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Enlightened Pleasures Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

Kavanagh Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140941, Yale University Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue – a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly...

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