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United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300234831, Yale University Press, October 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship's evolution, tr...
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£30,00
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Unfinished Arab Spring Micro-Dynamics of Revolts between Change and Continuity
ISBN: HB: 9781909942486, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, August 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The aim of this volume is to adopt an original analytical approach in explaining various dynamics at work behind the Arab Spring, through giving voice to local dynamics and legacies rather than concentrating on debates about paradigms. It highlights...
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£40,00
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Unlikely General "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America
ISBN: PB: 9780300251876, Yale University Press, June 2020
376 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 22 black&white illus.
In the spring of 1792, President George Washington chose "Mad" Anthony Wayne to defend America from a potentially devastating threat. Native forces had decimated the standing army and Washington needed a champion to open the country stretching from t...
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£18,00
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Urban Lowlands A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning
ISBN: HB: 9780226710532, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones
In "Urban Lowlands", Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the pover...
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£40,00
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Urban Hunters Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition
ISBN: HB: 9780300196115, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
"Urban Hunters" is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos...
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£65,00
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Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi
ISBN: PB: 9781849048880, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi has left the country a failed state and a major security headache for Europe. Gaddafi's...
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£17,99
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Under Red Skies The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial
ISBN: HB: 9781787381759, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understa...
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£20,00
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Under Osman's Tree The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
ISBN: PB: 9780226638881, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 tables
Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel.  As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the...
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£27,00
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U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74 The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants
ISBN: HB: 9781612006659, Casemate, January 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The Secret War in Laos was one of the first "Long Wars" for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. Bet...
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£30,00
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Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake
ISBN: HB: 9780226585284, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
The early Europeans settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some viewed the bay as a wild landscape waiting to be tamed, while others saw potential there for spiritual sanctuary. But all of th...
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£38,00
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