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Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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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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Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

Sher Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752532, ISBN: HB: 9780226752525, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
848 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 45 halftones, 16 line illus.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these semina...

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Africa

Political Science

Milk and Peace, Drought and War Somali Culture, Society and Politics

Hoehne Markus V., Luling Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781849040457, ISBN: HB: 9781849040440, Hurst Publishers, July 2010
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship on Somalia and Somali land, one that transcends the usual boundaries and presents readers with a timely, incisive and compelling introduction to Somali culture, history...

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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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Europe

Political Science

Kirov Murder and Soviet History

Lenoe Matthew E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112368, Yale University Press, June 2010
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash...

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America

Political Science

Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate

Koger Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226449654, ISBN: HB: 9780226449647, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 51 line illus.

In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislativ...

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America

Unsettling History Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

Jobs Sebastian, Ludtke Alf

ISBN: PB: 9783593388182, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2010
253 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. With "Unsettling History", a group of historians extend that challenge to two central compon...

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Asia

Technology & Engineering

Nucleus and Nation Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India

Anderson Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226019758, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
736 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 9 tables, 16 halftones

In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb. But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before, as India sought both independence from the British...

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Military

Ottomans into Europeans State and Institution-building in South Eastern Europe

Mungiu-Pippidi Alina, Meurs Wim Van

ISBN: PB: 9781849040747, ISBN: HB: 9781849040563, Hurst Publishers, June 2010
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! While many histories of the Balkans have been published, some very good and others poor, there is as yet no history of institutions in the Balkans. This is what the contributors to "Ottomans into Europeans" offer the reader: a...

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