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America

Havana Habit

Perez Firmat Gustavo

ISBN: PB: 9780300177893, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 20x13.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U. S. coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging "H...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Israel An Introduction

Rubin Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780300162301, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 86 black&white illus.

This comprehensive book provides a well-rounded introduction to Israel – a definitive account of the nation's past, its often controversial present, and much more. Edited by a leading historian of the Middle East, "Israel" is organized around six maj...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Stalin Cult A Study in the Alchemy of Power

Plamper Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300169522, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 21 colour images, 62 black&white illus.

Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet...

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Culture Studies

America

Hollywood Sign Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon

Braudy Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780300181456, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 20.7x14.1 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so many who see its image, the sign represents th...

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World

Problem of Slavery as History A Global Approach

Miller Joseph C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300113150, Yale University Press, February 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Why did slavery – an accepted evil for thousands of years – suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Jose...

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America

Black Gotham A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Peterson Carla L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181746, Yale University Press, February 2012
446 pp., 22.5x14.7 cm, 2 maps, 36 black&white illus.

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, "Black Gotham" is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbours...

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America

Capitalism Takes Command The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Zakim Michael, Kornblith Gary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226451107, ISBN: HB: 9780226451091, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 4 line illus.

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, "Capitalism Takes Comma...

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Europe

Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships

Jessen Ralph, Richter Hedwig

ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

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Middle East

Fragments of the Afghan Frontier

Marsden Magnus, Hopkins Benjamin D.

ISBN: HB: 9781849040723, Hurst Publishers, February 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Despite the long and intimate history of engagement along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's North-West, this area and its relationship to the world remains poorly understood in the West's popular imagination. Throug...

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Middle East

Political Science

Transnational Shia Politics Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf

Louer Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9781849042147, Hurst Publishers, February 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This timely book illuminates the historical origins and present situation of militant Shia transnational networks by focusing on three key countries in the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, whose Shia Islamic groups are t...

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