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Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness
ISBN: HB: 9780226612492, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
312 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 16 colour plates, 40 halftones
Measurement is all around us – from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures o...
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£27,00
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Stalin's Master Narrative A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course
ISBN: HB: 9780300155365, Yale University Press, April 2019
760 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
"The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)" defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR – a hegemonic statement on history, politics, an...
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£45,00
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Croatia A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Fourth Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300246575, Yale University Press, April 2019
392 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Millions of tourists visit Croatia each year. Every summer, thousands of people walk along the famously beautiful marble-tiled street in Dubrovnik, now a World Heritage site. Of the countries that have emerged since the collapse of communism and the...
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£12,99
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Vory Russia's Super Mafia
ISBN: PB: 9780300243208, ISBN: HB: 9780300186826, Yale University Press, April 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the change...
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£10,99
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£20,00
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Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State
ISBN: HB: 9780300208269, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded "in a fit of absence of mind". He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the mod...
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£40,00
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Britain, Greece and the Colonels, 1967-74 A Troubled Relationship
ISBN: PB: 9781849043656, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The long history of Anglo-Greek relations has deservedly attracted much attention. One of its most controversial – yet least explored – phases was that spanning the Greek Colonels' seven-year military junta, from 1967-1974. Dra...
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£22,00
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Iceland's 1100 Years History of a Marginal Society
ISBN: PB: 9781849049115, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Iceland's 1100 Years" recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as lat...
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£20,00
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Postwar Moment Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II
ISBN: HB: 9780300124354, Yale University Press, March 2019
560 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 29 black&white illus.
After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original...
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£30,00
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Renaissance Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024638577, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
190 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 129 colour plates, 15 halftones, 2 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague's throne, the character of the city's municipalities began to transition from medieval to R...
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£23,00
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Fragmented Lives Chronicles of the Gulag
ISBN: PB: 9788024637006, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Fragmented Lives", Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a series of portraits of inmates and camp personnel ac...
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£14,00
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