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Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe

Piechocki Katharina N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....

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In Quest of History On Czech Statehood and Identity

Priban Jiri, Hvizdala Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024642673, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiri Priban and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvizdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech...

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Richard III The Self-Made King

Hicks Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300214291, Yale University Press, October 2019
388 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The reign of Richard III, the last Yorkist king and the final monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty, marked a turning point in British history. But despite his lasting legacy, Richard only ruled as king for the final two years of his life. While much at...

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Mr. Smith Goes to China Three Scots in the Making of Britain's Global Empire

Hanser Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780300236088, Yale University Press, September 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders – George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras – and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and g...

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Biography & Memoires

Marie-Antoinette The Making of a French Queen

Hardman John

ISBN: HB: 9780300243086, Yale University Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus.

Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds...

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Photography

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Dark Lens Imaging Germany, 1945

Meltzer Francoise

ISBN: HB: 9780226625638, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 41 halftones

The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of them force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgivenes...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature

Scranton Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...

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Biography & Memoires

Venizelos The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914

Llewellyn-Smith Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781787381421, Hurst Publishers, September 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that isl...

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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England

Muir Rory

ISBN: HB: 9780300244311, Yale University Press, August 2019
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 colour illus.

In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: what should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir weaves together the stories o...

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Kremlin Letters Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

Reynolds David, Pechatnov Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780300247657, ISBN: HB: 9780300226829, Yale University Press, August 2019
680 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus., 3 maps

Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume – the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration – the messages are published and also ana...

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