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History of the Gulag From Collectivization to the Great Terror

Khlevniuk Oleg V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205039, Yale University Press, August 2013
442 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a...

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Household Politics Conflict in Early Modern England

Herzog Don

ISBN: HB: 9780300180787, Yale University Press, May 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Household Politics" offers a brand-new look at "familial patriarchy" in early modern England, which was an era when it supposedly thrived. Canonical sources and sermons often urged the subordination of women. But Herzog found that most considered th...

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Culture Studies

Europe

How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying

Mead Shepherd

ISBN: HB: 9781851242795, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying", came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow Americans to guide them through the nuances of Brit...

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Biography & Memoires

Hitler's Hangman The Life of Heydrich

Gerwarth Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300187724, Yale University Press, August 2012
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruth...

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America

History in the Making

Elliott J. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300186383, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a historian of Spain, Europe, and the...

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Philosophy

Europe

Holocaust as Culture A Conversation with Imre Kertesz

Kertesz Imre

ISBN: PB: 9780857425805, ISBN: HB: 9780857420220, Seagull Books, May 2012
112 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is...

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Political Science

Hungary Between Democracy and Authoritarianism

Lendvai Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781849041966, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! How has Hungary, a country once in the vanguard of political and economic reform under Communism, become a chilling example of the new threats confronting democracy in Central Europe? The return of Hungary's demons of the past...

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Political Science

Hour of Europe Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Glaurdic Josip

ISBN: HB: 9780300166293, Yale University Press, October 2011
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H. W. Bush...

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Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America

Mancall Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164220, ISBN: HB: 9780300110548, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 44 black&white illus.

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...

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Gender Studies

Hellfire Clubs Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

Lord Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300164022, Yale University Press, March 2010
250 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sen...

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