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Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801

Hamburg Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300113136, Yale University Press, July 2016
864 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia's path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great's opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Ha...

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Military

Medieval

Battle of Val Es Dunes Summer 1047, when the "Batard" became the Duke

Hauguel Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9782815102995, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Duke William of Normandy (1027-1087) is best known for his conquest of England but his eventful and chaotic youth is often forgotten. William inherited the Dukedom at the age of eight when his father, Robert the Magnificent, died in 1035 on his retur...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Prince of Tricksters The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook

Houlbrook Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780226133157, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters – royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery – his changing names an...

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Middle East

Rock Between Hard Places Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity

Harpviken Berg Kristian, Tadjbakhsh Shahrbanou

ISBN: PB: 9781849045698, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What has driven neighbouring states to intervene in the Afghan conflict? This book challenges mainstream analyses which place Afghanistan at the centre – the so-called "heart" – of a large pan-Asian region whose fate is predica...

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Military

Vivid Courage Victoria Crosses: Antecedent and Allied Regiments of the Staffordshire Regiment

Hope Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096375, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 75 black&white photos, 1 map, 1 regimental tree & 3 registers

In the history of the Victoria Cross, this is the first book exclusively written about the recipients of this prestigious award who were members of this famous regiment. This is the fifth book written by the author – and like his previous works, cont...

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History

Asia

Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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Military

Biography & Memoires

John Bell Hood The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General

Hood Stephen M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213300, Casemate, Savas Beatie, May 2016
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 images, 3 maps

John Bell Hood was one of the Confederacy's most enigmatic generals. He died at 48 after a brief illness in August of 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate S...

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World

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society A History, 1838-1956

Heartfield James

ISBN: HB: 9781849046336, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After West Indian slavery was abolished in 1833, the anti-slavery campaign turned to the wider world and the goal of Universal Emancipation. Veteran agitators Joseph Sturge, Lord Brougham and John Scoble launched the British an...

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America

Mourning Lincoln

Hodes Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780300219753, ISBN: HB: 9780300195804, Yale University Press, April 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in new...

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America

Making Sense of the Americas How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond

Hansen Jan, Helm Christian, Reichherzer Frank

ISBN: PB: 9783593504803, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical repr...

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