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America

Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic

Gustafson Sandra M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226311296, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practic...

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Ancient World

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

Gere Cathy

ISBN: PB: 9780226289540, ISBN: HB: 9780226289533, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With "K...

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Europe

General

Political Epistemics The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism

Glaeser Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780226297941, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
640 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 17 line illus.

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution...

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America

Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes

Gonzalez Olga M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226302713, ISBN: HB: 9780226302706, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
344 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 4 maps, 1 table, 31 colour illus.

The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly esc...

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Military

Hungary 1944-1945 The Panzers' Last Stand

Guillemot Phillippe

ISBN: PB: 9782352501558, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2011
80 pp., 24x20 cm, 16 profiles, 10 maps

Following the dramatic destruction of Army Group Centre and overshadowed by Koniev's and Zhukov's rush on Berlin, this particular theatre of operations in Hungary, 1944-45, including the devastating Siege of Budapest, which was one of the bloodiest s...

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Ancient World

Cultural Identity In the Ancient Mediterranean

Gruen Erich S.

ISBN: PB: 9780892369690, Getty Publications, January 2011
572 pp., 25.2x18 cm, 97 black&white illus.

This is an illuminating collection of essays that explore the idea of cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Cultural identity is a slippery and elusive concept. When applied to the collective self-consciousness among people or nations, it b...

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Europe

Slovenia and the Slovenes A Small State in the New Europe

Gow James, Carmichael Cathie

ISBN: PB: 9781850659440, Hurst Publishers, November 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! One of Europe's smallest countries, with a population of less than 2 million, Slovenia has an ancient and distinct national culture. It emerged in 1991 after fighting a brief war of independence to leave behind the remnants of...

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America

Bourgeois Frontier French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

Gitlin Jay

ISBN: PB: 9780300168037, Yale University Press, September 2010
290 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of...

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Middle East

Cuneiform Texts from Various Collections

Goetze Albrecht, Foster Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300144901, Yale University Press, August 2010
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 109 black&white illus.

The 217 previously unpublished cuneiform texts presented here, found in small collections throughout the world, date from the late third to the late first millennia BCE and include inscriptions, letters, administrative documents, and literary works i...

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America

Military

Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Geiger Mark W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300151510, Yale University Press, July 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience i...

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