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Wellington The Path to Victory 1769-1814

Muir Rory

ISBN: PB: 9780300205480, Yale University Press, March 2015
744 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 illus., maps, plans

The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a m...

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France 1940 Defending the Republic

Nord Philip G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300189872, Yale University Press, March 2015
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with German...

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Culture Studies

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

Voskuhl Adelheid

ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...

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Invisible Hands Self-Organization in the Eighteenth Century

Sheehan Jonathan, Wahrman Dror

ISBN: HB: 9780226752051, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems – natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others – whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteen...

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Stalin and the Lubianka A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953

Shearer David R., Khaustov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780300171891, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization and fortunes of the politica...

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Pagan Britain

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300205466, Yale University Press, February 2015
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 103 black&white illus.

Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughl...

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Paris Summit, 1377-78 Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France

Smahel Frantisek

ISBN: HB: 9788024625225, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
680 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeting with deft narrative talent, Frantisek Smahel tra...

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Icon Curtain The Cold War's Quiet Border

Komska Yuliya

ISBN: HB: 9780226154190, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The Iron Curtain did not exist – at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historica...

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Europeans Engaging the Atlantic Knowledge and Trade, 1500-1800

Lachenicht Susanne

ISBN: PB: 9783593501703, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
185 pp., 21x13.9 cm

"Europeans Engaging the Atlantic" offers innovative perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and on trade and commerce therewith. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans...

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Biography & Memoires

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Dreamland of Humanists Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

Levine Emily J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226272467, ISBN: HB: 9780226061689, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twenti...

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