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Beyond the Tower A History of East London

Marriott John

ISBN: PB: 9780300187755, ISBN: HB: 9780300148800, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first th...

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Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal

MacKay Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780226501086, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
328 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 2 maps, 11 halftones, 2 colour illus.

On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. In one of the most...

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Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

Monter William

ISBN: HB: 9780300173277, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs...

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Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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Medieval

Nuns Behaving Badly Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226534725, ISBN: HB: 9780226534619, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
264 pp., 22x14 cm, 25 halftones

Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superi...

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Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

McNeill William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561523, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In "Europe's Steppe Frontier", acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill b...

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Unfinished Revolution Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central Eastern Europe

Mark James

ISBN: HB: 9780300167160, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.8x16.2 cm, 12 black&white illus.

While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people's revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new dem...

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Colonialism and Science Saint Domingue and the Old Regime

McClellan James E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226514673, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 figures, 4 maps, 4 tables, 1 halftone

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active...

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Medieval

Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path

Mitterauer Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226532530, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe's unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively...

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Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America

Mancall Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164220, ISBN: HB: 9780300110548, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 44 black&white illus.

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...

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