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Colonialism and Science Saint Domingue and the Old Regime

McClellan James E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226514673, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 figures, 4 maps, 4 tables, 1 halftone

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active...

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Middle East

Cuneiform Texts from Various Collections

Goetze Albrecht, Foster Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300144901, Yale University Press, August 2010
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 109 black&white illus.

The 217 previously unpublished cuneiform texts presented here, found in small collections throughout the world, date from the late third to the late first millennia BCE and include inscriptions, letters, administrative documents, and literary works i...

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Africa

Curse of Berlin Africa After The Cold War

Adebajo Adekeye

ISBN: PB: 9781849040969, ISBN: HB: 9781849040952, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin a cartel of largely European states effectively set the rules for the partition of Africa, an event whose historical and structural importance continues to affect and shape Africa's contemp...

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Africa

Credit Between Cultures Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa

MacDonald Shipton Parker

ISBN: PB: 9780300181289, Yale University Press, July 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Award-winning anthropologist Parker Shipton brings a variety of persepectives-philosophical, political, and religious-and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa.

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Military

Counterinsurgency

Kilcullen David

ISBN: PB: 9781849040280, Hurst Publishers, July 2010
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! David Kilcullen is one of the world's foremost experts on guerrilla warfare. His vision of war has been enormously influential, through his service as senior counterinsurgency adviser to General David Petraeus during the Surge...

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America

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Freund David M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262765, ISBN: HB: 9780226262758, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
526 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line illus.

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial...

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Asia

America

Colour of Paradise The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

Lane Kris

ISBN: HB: 9780300161311, Yale University Press, March 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.

Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was – as it remains for all Muslims – the colour of Paradise, reserved for...

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America

Conservatives Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

Allitt Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300164183, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This lively book traces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster to William F. Buckley, Jr. and Irving Kristol. Conservatism has assumed a variety of forms, historian Patrick Allitt argues, because it has be...

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Ancient World

Caesar's Druids Story of an Ancient Priesthood

Aldhouse-Green Miranda

ISBN: HB: 9780300124422, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 80 black&white illus.

Ancient chroniclers, including Julius Caesar himself, made the Druids and their sacred rituals infamous throughout the Western world. But in fact, as Miranda Aldhouse-Green shows in this fascinating book, the Druids' day-to-day lives were far less lu...

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Aviation

Canadian Aircraft of WWII

Vincent Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780978069636, Casemate, Aviaeology, September 2009
80 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 120 illus.

Drawing on an immense range of archival records, memoirs, and photographs collected over decades of diligent research, author Carl Vincent provides a unique insight into some of the men and machines covered under the broad title Canadian Aircraft of...

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