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Women Studies

Asia

Dangerous Outcast The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Banerjee Sumanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857426154, Seagull Books, September 2019
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Dangerous Outcast" traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Parlour and the Street Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta

Banerjee Sumanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857426178, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta's urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring vill...

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Political Science

Europe

Stalin's Master Narrative A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course

Brandenberger David, Zelenov Mikhail V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155365, Yale University Press, April 2019
760 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

"The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)" defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR – a hegemonic statement on history, politics, an...

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America

Our Beloved Kin A New History of King Philip's War

Brooks Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780300244328, Yale University Press, April 2019
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wam...

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Asia

Faking Liberties Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan

Baraka Thomas Jolyon

ISBN: PB: 9780226618821, ISBN: HB: 9780226618791, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Religious freedom is a founding tenet of the United States, and it has frequently been used to justify policies towards other nations. Such was the case in 1945 when Americans occupied Japan following World War II. Though the Japanese constitution ha...

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Political Science

America

Back Channel American Diplomacy in a Disordered World

Burns William J.

ISBN: HB: 9781787381230, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time – from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of re...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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America

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

Burnard Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226639246, ISBN: HB: 9780226286105, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 18 tables

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men – men w...

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Political Science

Europe

Britain and Europe A Short History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9781787381186, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our politic...

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America

Imagining Anchorage The Making of America's Northernmost Metropolis

Barnett James, Hartman Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781602233669, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2019
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 132 colour plates

Anchorage is an exceptional city. What was once a town site of tents is now the largest city in the state. It just celebrated its centenary in 2015, but it has seen inhabitants for millennia. It is an economic hub grown from railroads, gold, and oil....

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