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Taking Leave, Taking Liberties American Troops on the World War II Home Front

Hiltner Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226687049, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be "overpaid, oversexed, and over here". But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn't only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by th...

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Europe

Elements of French Deaf Heritage

Hedberg Ulf, Lane Harlan

ISBN: PB: 9781944838560, Gallaudet University Press, March 2020
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 8 tables, 2 figures, 46 photos

French Deaf culture is regarded as a major influence on the formation of other Deaf cultures around the world, notably American Deaf culture. In "Elements of French Deaf Heritage", Ulf Hedberg and Harlan Lane document the development of Deaf culture...

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Middle East

Women Studies

Matilda Empress, Queen, Warrior

Hanley Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780300251470, Yale University Press, February 2020
296 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown – the first woman ever to hold the position – and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political le...

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Europe

Siege of Acre, 1189-1191 Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade

Hosler John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300251494, ISBN: HB: 9780300215502, Yale University Press, February 2020
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Maghreb. Drawing on a balanced selection of Christian and Muslim s...

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Asia

Urban Hunters Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

Hojer Lars, Pedersen Morten Axel

ISBN: HB: 9780300196115, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

"Urban Hunters" is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos...

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Europe

Decline of Magic Britain in the Enlightenment

Hunter Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300243581, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certa...

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America

Trading Spaces The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism

Hart Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780226659817, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In "Trad...

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Merchants, Pirates, and Smugglers Criminalization, Economics, and the Transformation of the Maritime World (1200-1600)

Heeboll-Holm Thomas, Hohn Philipp, Rohmann Gregor

ISBN: PB: 9783593509792, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
431 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 halftone

Maritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before...

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Military

Iranian Ways of War From Cyrus the Great to Qassam Soleimani

Hashim Ahmed S.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380349, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book traces the long history of Iran's wars, and the evolution of the Islamic Republic's military trajectory since 1979. Ahmed Hashim draws on Farsi, Arabic and European sources to explore Iran's efforts to create modern a...

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Europe

Richard III The Self-Made King

Hicks Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300214291, Yale University Press, October 2019
388 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The reign of Richard III, the last Yorkist king and the final monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty, marked a turning point in British history. But despite his lasting legacy, Richard only ruled as king for the final two years of his life. While much at...

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