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Iceland's 1100 Years History of a Marginal Society

Karlsson Gunnar

ISBN: PB: 9781849049115, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Iceland's 1100 Years" recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as lat...

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Hinduism

Asia

Malevolent Republic India Under Modi

Komireddi K. S.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380059, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After decades of imperfect secularism, New Delhi radiates the ideological convictions of its new master, Narendra Modi, as he seeks irreversibly to transform India. The "invisible threads" holding together Nehru's diverse count...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Dream of the Water Children Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific

Kakinami Cloyd Fredrick D.

ISBN: PB: 9781940939285, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, March 2019
476 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm

Born to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, the narrator of "Dream of the Water Children", finds himself not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heritage, but often a cultural drifter, as well. I...

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America

Conspiracies of Conspiracies How Delusions Have Overrun America

Konda Thomas Milan

ISBN: HB: 9780226585765, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion –...

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America

Islands of Sovereignty Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire

Kahn Jeffrey S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226587417, ISBN: HB: 9780226587387, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 17 line drawings

In "Islands of Sovereignty", anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal...

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Africa

Islam

War and Peace in Somalia National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab

Keating Michael, Waldman Matt

ISBN: PB: 9781787380189, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....

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America

Through Their Eyes A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central

Koskey Michael, Lotvonen Varpu, Tyrell Laurel

ISBN: PB: 9781602233577, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2018
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables

The towns of Eagle, Circle, and Central are tucked away in the cold, rugged, and sparsely populated central-eastern interior of Alaska. These communities have fewer than three hundred residents in an area of more than 22,000 square miles. Yet they ar...

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America

World of Homeowners American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

Kwak Nancy H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598253, ISBN: HB: 9780226282350, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Is there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's major exports and defining characteristics around th...

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Asia

Imperial Disaster The Bengal Cyclone of 1876

Kingsbury Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9781849048866, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were flowing high and fast to the sea. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and isla...

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