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Europe

Lenin's Jewish Question

Petrovsky-Shtern Yohanan

ISBN: HB: 9780300152104, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

In this first examination of Lenin's genealogical and political connections to East European Jews, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern reveals the broad cultural meanings of indisputable evidence that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jew. He examines why and...

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America

Furs and Frontiers in the Far North The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

Bockstoce John R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167993, Yale University Press, September 2010
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 42 black&white illus.

This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and...

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Military

Gallipoli The End of the Myth

Prior Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780300168945, Yale University Press, September 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-1916 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to shorten the war by eliminating Turkey, creating a Balkan alliance against the Central Powers, and securing a sea route to Russia. A failure in all respects, the operation ended in...

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America

Culture Studies

Visualizing American Empire Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226075341, ISBN: HB: 9780226075334, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 66 halftones

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one ele...

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Anthropology

World

Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany

Evans Andrew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...

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America

Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226750255, ISBN: HB: 9780226750248, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
486 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 16 halftones

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts – indeed, highly respected experts – authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and w...

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Europe

Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300168891, Yale University Press, August 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their re...

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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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Europe

Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168860, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Snapshots of gaiety and celebration – the street parties, the victory speeches – are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a 'golden age' of pride and self-confidence. The countr...

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Islam

Medieval

Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages

Touati Houari

ISBN: HB: 9780226808772, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures – touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North...

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