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History of Art

Ancient World

Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms From Pergamon to Rome

Hemingway Sean, Karoglou Kiki

ISBN: PB: 9781588396587, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
256 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Authored by internationally renowned scholars, the 20 essays written for this volume explore topics ranging from the influence of Hellenistic art in the ancient Roman world to the ongoing excavations at Pergamon. All aspects of Hellenistic art are di...

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Europe

Siberia A History of the People

Hartley Janet M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246421, Yale University Press, January 2019
322 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M. Hartley explores t...

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Ecology

America

Dust Bowls of Empire Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism

Holleman Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780300230208, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm

The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the cli...

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Christianity

Europe

Atlas of Religions in Czechia

Havlicek Tomas, Klingorova Kamila, Lysak Jakub

ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...

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America

Supermarket USA Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

Hamilton Shane

ISBN: HB: 9780300232691, Yale University Press, November 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommu...

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Military

Europe

Berlin Operation 1945 Soviet General Staff

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390496, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2018
420 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 4 maps

Berlin Operation, 1945, tells the story of the Red Army's penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe. Here the forces of three fronts (Second and First Belorussian and First Ukrainian) forced the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of t...

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America

Christianity

Christianity and Race in the American South A History

Harvey Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...

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Asia

Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19

Hardiman David

ISBN: HB: 9781849049702, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Much of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been extremely successful. Although the f...

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Medieval

King Arthur The Making of the Legend

Higham Nicholas J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300210927, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 7 maps

According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars; most period specialists today declare...

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Military

Battle of Kursk The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390502, ISBN: HB: 9781910777671, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
390 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 6 maps

"The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July-August 1943", offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War's most critical events. While the Germans defeat s at Moscow and Stalingrad showed tha...

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