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Fire under the Ashes An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

Donoghue John

ISBN: HB: 9780226157658, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

In "Fire under the Ashes", John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of se...

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Europe

Orderly and Humane The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

Douglas R. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198201, Yale University Press, September 2013
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 1 map

Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable – between 1...

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America

Good Rich and What They Cost Us Chapters in the Curious History of Wealth and American Democracy

Dalzell Robert F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300175592, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

This timely book holds up for scrutiny a great paradox at the core of the American Dream: a passionate belief in the principle of democracy combined with an equally passionate celebration of the creation of wealth. Americans treasure an open, equal s...

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Ancient World

Cuneiform Documents from Hellenistic Uruk

Doty L. Timothy, Wallenfels Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780300185270, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 28.7x21.6 cm, 194 black&white illus.

This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the "Yale Babylonian Collection", begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions of 103 texts from the city of Uruk, dating to th...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Cultural History of Wallonia

Demoulin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...

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America

Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins John Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226004525, ISBN: HB: 9780226148830, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
152 pp., 22x14 cm

Barack Obama has called him "one of my favorite philosophers". John McCain wrote that he is "a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war". Andrew Sullivan has said, "We need Niebuhr now more than ever". For a theologian who died in 1971, Reinh...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France

Douthwaite Julia V.

ISBN: HB: 9780226160580, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 halftones, 2 line illus.

The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. In this book...

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Military

World

Limits of Detente The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973

Daigle Craig

ISBN: HB: 9780300167139, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis,...

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Photography

Europe

Images in Spite of All Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Didi-Huberman Georges

ISBN: PB: 9780226148175, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 30 halftones

Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clan...

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America

Savages and Scoundrels The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire Through Indian Territory

Develder Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300181852, Yale University Press, March 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

<p>What really happened in the early days of the American nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book t...

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