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Bosnian Muslims in Second World War A History

Hoare Marko Attila

ISBN: HB: 9781849042413, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
512 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The story of the Bosnian Muslims in World War II is an epic frequently alluded to in discussions of the 1990s Balkan conflicts, but almost as frequently misunderstood or falsified. This first comprehensive study of the topic in...

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Belonging and Genocide Hitler's Community, 1918-1945

Kuhne Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300198287, Yale University Press, September 2013
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What enabled millions of Germans to perpetrate or condone the murder of the Jews? In this illuminating book, Thomas Kuhne offers a provocative answer. In ad...

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Beyond the Tower A History of East London

Marriott John

ISBN: PB: 9780300187755, ISBN: HB: 9780300148800, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first th...

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Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal

MacKay Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780226501086, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
328 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 2 maps, 11 halftones, 2 colour illus.

On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. In one of the most...

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Book in the Renaissance

Pettegree Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300178210, Yale University Press, September 2011
440 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegr...

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Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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Blood and Mistletoe The History of the Druids in Britain

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300170856, Yale University Press, March 2011
492 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 32 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A. D. , the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and rei...

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Europe

General

Balkan Exchange of Minorities and Its Impact on Greece

Pentzopoulos Dimitri

ISBN: PB: 9781850656746, ISBN: HB: 9781850657026, Hurst Publishers, October 2002
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey and the resettlement in Greece of 1.3 m...

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Bosnia and Hercegovina A Tradition Betrayed

Donia Robert J., Fine, Jr John V. A.

ISBN: HB: 9781850652120, Hurst Publishers, September 1994
318 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This concise history of Bosnia-Hercegovina is designed for the non-specialist reader who seeks to understand the historical background of the Bosnian conflict that erupted in 1992 in the wake of Serbian and Croatian agression....

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Breaking the Silence The German Who Exposed the Final Solution

Laqueur Walter, Breitman Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780874516722, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 1994
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through unparalleled historical detective work, noted scholars Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman reveal the inspiring tale of Eduard Schulte, the Breslau business leader who risked his life to gather information about such Nazi activities as the re...

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