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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 40 May 16 Through September 15, 1783

Cohn Ellen R., Dull Jonathan R., Ohno Kate M., Anderson Alicia K., Garbooshian Adrina, Sletcher Michael, Ziesche Philipp, Cain Alysia M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300165463, Yale University Press, February 2012
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

During the period of this volume, the United States of America completed its transformation into a fully recognized independent nation. In May, Franklin and his fellow American peace commissioners John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens recommenced t...

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World

Problem of Slavery as History A Global Approach

Miller Joseph C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300113150, Yale University Press, February 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Why did slavery – an accepted evil for thousands of years – suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Jose...

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Europe

Propaganda State in Crisis Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror Under Stalin, 1927-1941

Brandenberger David

ISBN: PB: 9780300155372, Yale University Press, January 2012
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, the schools, and the cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party pro...

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America

Culture Studies

Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226871837, ISBN: HB: 9780226871820, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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Middle East

Political Science

Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies

Davidson Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9781849041218, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Christopher Davidson, an acclaimed expert on the fast moving politics and economics of the Gulf, together with five other leading authorities on the region, has brought together a unique collection of comprehensive yet highly a...

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Photography

America

Picturing Faith Photography and the Great Depression

McDannell Colleen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184464, Yale University Press, November 2011
330 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks-all then virtually unknown-were com...

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Nature

America

Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Nicholls Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...

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Military

Middle East

Pakistan-US Conundrum Jihadists, the Military and the People: The Struggle for Control

Yunas Samad

ISBN: PB: 9781849040105, ISBN: HB: 9781849040099, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Yunas Samad's trenchant analysis of contemporary Pakistan features five main players: the people, the army, the Islamists, the politicians and the Americans. His book explains how a series of alliances borne of political and st...

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Current Affairs

America

Prison and the American Imagination

Smith Caleb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171495, Yale University Press, May 2011
258 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particular...

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America

Political Essay on the Island of Cuba A Critical Edition

Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226465678, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
496 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 115 tables

The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early nineteenth-century proved foundational to the fields of botany, geography, and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observation...

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