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Ukrainians Unexpected Nation (Fourth Edition)

Wilson Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300217254, Yale University Press, October 2015
432 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people, now in its fourth edition.

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Anglo-Saxon World

Higham Nicholas J., Ryan Martin J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216134, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 25x15 cm, 100 maps, 50 black&white illus.

The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of Engl...

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Dirty Old London The Victorian Fight Against Filth

Jackson Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300216110, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this inti...

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Days of Adversity The Warsaw Uprising 1944

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096733, ISBN: HB: 9781909982956, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 100 black&white illus.

This work is a re-examination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised a...

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Law

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Czech Law in Historical Contexts

Kuklik Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024628608, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The legal system of the present-day Czech Republic cannot be understood without sufficient knowledge of its historical roots and evolution. Kuklik traces the development of Czech law from...

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Military

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First World War Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front

De Keyzer Carl, Van Reybrouck David

ISBN: HB: 9780226284286, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
280 pp., 32x22.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras u...

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Parables of Coercion Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

Kimmel Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780226278285, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unl...

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Age of Catastrophe A History of the West 1914-1945

Winkler Heinrich August

ISBN: HB: 9780300204896, Yale University Press, September 2015
1016 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and...

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Italian Venice A History

Bosworth R. J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216127, Yale University Press, September 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice – not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalour of the bel...

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Women Studies

Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance

Hurlburt Holly S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...

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