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Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168860, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Snapshots of gaiety and celebration – the street parties, the victory speeches – are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a 'golden age' of pride and self-confidence. The countr...

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Political Science

Kirov Murder and Soviet History

Lenoe Matthew E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112368, Yale University Press, June 2010
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash...

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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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Enlightened Pleasures Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

Kavanagh Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140941, Yale University Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue – a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly...

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Shameful Peace How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

Spotts Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9780300163995, Yale University Press, March 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained, including Gide and Celine, Picasso and Matisse, Cortot and Messiaen,...

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Growing Up in England The Experience of Childhood, 1600-1914

Fletcher Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300163964, Yale University Press, March 2010
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises previous understandings...

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Gender Studies

Hellfire Clubs Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

Lord Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300164022, Yale University Press, March 2010
250 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sen...

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Road to Terror Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

Getty J. Arch, Naumov Oleg V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300104073, Yale University Press, March 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret tran...

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Policing Stalin's Socialism Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union (1924-1953)

Shearer David R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300149258, Yale University Press, October 2009
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Policing Stalin's "Socialism" is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of...

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Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library

Tanner Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780300158281, Yale University Press, August 2009
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, "the Raven King", was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and h...

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