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Day at Home in Early Modern England Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700

Hamling Tara, Richardson Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300195019, Yale University Press, October 2017
304 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 280 colour illus.

This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging...

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Jewish Studies

Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War

Grady Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...

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Military

D-Day, What We Haven't Told You The Secrets of D-Day

Bauduin Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9782840484806, Casemate, Heimdal, June 2017
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm

The Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944 were a major and decisive episode of the Second World War and have been, for more than sixty years, the object of countless books, films, investigations, reports and television series. However, is it known that D-...

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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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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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Biography & Memoires

Duke's Assassin Exile and Death of Lorenzino De' Medici

Dall'Aglio Stefano, Weinstein Donald

ISBN: HB: 9780300189780, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Stefano Dall'Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de' Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations of Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murderin...

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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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De-Stalinisation Reconsidered Persistence and Change in the Soviet Union

Bohn Thomas M., Einax Rayk, Abesser Michel

ISBN: PB: 9783593501666, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
276 pp., 21x13.9 cm

Joseph Stalin's death was a defining event in Soviet history. In its aftermath, the state was forced to reconceive its political, economic, social, and cultural identity. This volume includes new contributions from an international collection of rese...

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Military

Disease, War, and the Imperial State The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War

Charters Erica

ISBN: HB: 9780226180007, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map, 1 table

The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of Eu...

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