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Military

"Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926 Ten Years That Shook the World

Smele Jonathan D.

ISBN: PB: 9781849047210, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth...

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Medieval

Frederick Barbarossa The Prince and the Myth

Freed John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300122763, Yale University Press, June 2016
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany's most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d'etat in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between the crown and the princes that endured until the end...

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Europe

Hitler's Berlin Abused City

Friedrich Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300219739, ISBN: HB: 9780300166705, Yale University Press, June 2016
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account of Hitler's relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city,...

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Europe

Corporate Commonwealth Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651

Turner Henry S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226363356, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"The Corporate Commonwealth" traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance period and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fi...

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Political Science

Military

Bosnia's Paralysed Peace

Bennett Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849040549, ISBN: HB: 9781849040532, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a s...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

John Knox

Dawson Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780300219708, Yale University Press, May 2016
384 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. Based in large part on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and...

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Europe

Hope Springs Eternal French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Debt

Oosterlinck Kim, Bulger Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300190915, Yale University Press, May 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In 1918, the Soviet revolutionary government repudiated the Tsarist regime's sovereign debt, triggering one of the biggest sovereign defaults ever. Yet the price of Russian bonds remained high for years. Combing French archival records, Kim Oosterlin...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Extraterritorial Dreams European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century

Abrevaya Stein Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226368221, ISBN: HB: 9780226368191, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, "Extraterritorial Dreams" explores the history...

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Europe

General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Europe

Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70

Jones Polly

ISBN: PB: 9780300219777, ISBN: HB: 9780300185126, Yale University Press, April 2016
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and...

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