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Africa

Abson & Company Slave Traders in Eighteenth-Century West Africa

Alpern Stanley B.

ISBN: HB: 9781849049627, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest-surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William's Fort at Ouidah on the Slave Coast as a trader in 1767, took over the English fort in 1770, an...

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Ancient World

Enraged Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Anhalt Emily Katz

ISBN: PB: 9780300239966, ISBN: HB: 9780300217377, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's "Iliad", Euripides' "Hecuba", and Sophocles' "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed bef...

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Asia

End of the Asian Century War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

Auslin Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239980, ISBN: HB: 9780300212228, Yale University Press, October 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to wa...

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Europe

Designs of Destruction The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century

Allais Lucia

ISBN: HB: 9780226286556, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 123 halftones

The twentieth century was the most destructive in human history, but from its vast landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I, an international movement arose which aimed to protect archit...

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Design

Aviation

Supersonic The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde

Azerrad Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9783791384092, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
192 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stylishly illustrated book looks back at the glamour of Concorde air travel and is as sleek and elegant as the aircraft it celebrates. When the first commercial Concordes zoomed off the runways in Paris and London in the late 1960s, crossing th...

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Islam

Europe

"Infidel Within" Muslims in Britain Since 1800

Ansari Humayun

ISBN: PB: 9781849049474, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
456 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Muslims constitute Britain's second largest religious grouping, and writing about their experiences has found a new audience in recent years – though not always through a positive lens. But a proper historical treatment of thei...

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Europe

One Hot Summer Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

Ashton Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300238662, Yale University Press, July 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

<p>While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhist...

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Europe

Asia

Georgia A Cultural History Through the Wardrop Collection

Aleksidze Nikoloz

ISBN: HB: 9781851244959, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2018
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 75 illus.

When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these transformative years, they actively participated in the work of I...

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Military

Europe

Nazi Millionaires

Alford Kenneth D.

ISBN: PB: 9781612005959, Casemate, April 2018
320 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, black&white photographs

During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the stolen loot out of Allied hands, they...

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Criminology

Military

Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today

Anderson Scott A., Nussbaum Martha C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...

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