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Ralph Tailor's Summer A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

Wrightson Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780300174472, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed as others fled: the scrivener Ralph Tailor....

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Political Science

Middle East

Red Star Over Iraq Iraqi Communism Before Saddam

Franzén Johan

ISBN: HB: 9781849041010, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Recent outbursts of sectarian and ethnic violence in Iraq have made many observers question the viability of the state itself. It is said that due to the artificiality of the state and a lack of deep-seated political institutio...

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Dictionaries

Russian

Russian World War 2 Dictionary A Russian-English Glossary of Special Terms, Expressions, and Soldiers' Slang

Kobylyanskiy Isaak, Britton Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9781907677335, ISBN: HB: 9781909384064, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2011
48 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known as the Eastern Front of World War II, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world. The frontline veterans' reminiscences occup...

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Military

Resisting Genocide The Multiple Forms of Rescue

Semelin Jacques, Andrieu Claire, Gensburger Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781849040594, Hurst Publishers, June 2011
456 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Every genocide in history has been notable for the minority of brave individuals and groups who put their own lives at risk to rescue its would be victims. Based on three case studies – the genocides of the Armenians, the Jews...

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America

Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870

Morris Robert C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226539294, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

This study of education for freedmen following Emancipation is the definitive treatment of the subject. Employing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Morris examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particula...

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Europe

Rethinking France Les Lieux de memoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories

Nora Pierre, Jordan David P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591353, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
504 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 77 halftones

The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the histor...

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Europe

Road to Terror Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

Getty J. Arch, Naumov Oleg V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300104073, Yale University Press, March 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret tran...

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Military

General

Rules of the Game Detention, Deportation, Disappearance

Qureshi Asim

ISBN: PB: 9781850659686, Hurst Publishers, February 2010
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the aftermath of the suicide bombings on London's transport infrastructure in July 2005, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair said that 'the rules of the game have changed'. He referred to how his government planned to respond...

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Europe

Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library

Tanner Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780300158281, Yale University Press, August 2009
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, "the Raven King", was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and h...

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Africa

Role of France in the Rwandan Genocide

Kroslak Daniela

ISBN: PB: 9781850658825, Hurst Publishers, August 2007
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After the Holocaust, the victorious Allies pledged "Never Again" to genocide. This promise, enshrined in the UN Convention on Genocide, stipulates a responsibility to try and prevent genocide or mitigate the suffering of its vi...

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