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Siberia A History of the People

Hartley Janet M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246421, Yale University Press, January 2019
322 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M. Hartley explores t...

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Military

America

Stay and Fight it Out The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield

Mackowski Chris, White Kristopher, Davis Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213317, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.

July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinf...

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America

Supermarket USA Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

Hamilton Shane

ISBN: HB: 9780300232691, Yale University Press, November 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommu...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Studies of Homeric Greece

Bouzek Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...

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Europe

Savage Frontier The Pyrenees in History

Carr Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781787380073, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Savage Frontier" traces the routes over the mountains taken by monks, soldiers, poets, pilgrims and refugees, examining the lives and events that have shaped the Pyrenees across the centuries. Its cast of characters includes N...

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Military

Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949

Woodhouse C. M.

ISBN: PB: 9781787380264, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in Greece in 1943-1944, C.M. Woodhouse has to hold an uneasy balance between the communist and government sides. Against a background of conflicting communist...

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America

Speeches of Frederick Douglass A Critical Edition

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John R. IV, Husband Julie, Kaufman Heather L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192179, Yale University Press, October 2018
656 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women's rights, economic development, and immigration. Do...

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Europe

Savages, Romans, and Despots Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder

Launay Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226575391, ISBN: HB: 9780226575254, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans struggled to understand their identity in the same way we do as individuals: by comparing themselves to others. In "Savages, Romans, and Despots", Robert Launay takes us on a fascinating tour...

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Military

Stalin's Secret Weapon The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare

Rimmington Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9781849048958, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
240 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Stalin's Secret Weapon" is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons programme, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence speci...

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Women Studies

Africa

Surviving Biafra A Nigerwife's Story

Bird Elizabeth S., Umelo Rosina

ISBN: HB: 9781849049580, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1961, Rosina "Rose" Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves cau...

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