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Inglorious Revolution Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil
ISBN: HB: 9780300139273, Yale University Press, November 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Nineteenth-century Brazil's constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financ...
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£65,00
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Archaeology of Jerusalem From the Origins to the Ottomans
ISBN: PB: 9780300216622, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour images, 185 black&white illus.
In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is struct...
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Top Drawings, No. 27 Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa - Ki-43-I/Ki-43-II/Ki-43-III Models
ISBN: PB: 9788364596711, Casemate, Kagero, November 2015
32 pp., 29.7x21 cm
Not for sale in Poland! The Nakajima Ki-43 was the successor of?the company's earlier successful design – the Ki-27 Nate. The new fighter was being developed from 1937 by a team of?engineers led by Hideo Itokawa, the designer of?the Ki-27. The firs...
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£14,00
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Top Drawings, No. 28 North American P-51 Mustang - B/C/D/K models
ISBN: PB: 9788364596841, Casemate, Kagero, November 2015
32 pp., 29.7x21 cm
Not for sale in Poland! North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most renowned and undoubtedly one of the most aesthetically pleasing fighter designs of the Second World War. It served well its pilots of many nationalities even many years after i...
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Legends of Aviation, No. 02 Fokker D. VII - The Lethal Weapon
ISBN: HB: 9788364596773, Casemate, Kagero, November 2015
168 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, illus.
Not for sale in Poland! World War I was the time of dynamic development of aviation. Aircraft created during that period and pilots who fought in them, became legends that have fascinated generations of pilots and aviation enthusiasts. Legends of A...
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£25,00
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Confederate Cities The Urban South during the Civil War Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226300207, ISBN: HB: 9780226300177, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612
ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...
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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power
ISBN: PB: 9780226132136, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables, 43 musical examples
A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her pe...
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£36,00
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Secularism in Antebellum America
ISBN: PB: 9780226325132, ISBN: HB: 9780226533230, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones
Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular...
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£20,50
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£42,00
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Making of Tocqueville's America Law and Association in the Early United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226297088, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations – and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand...
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