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Barksdale's Charge The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

Tucker Phillip Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781612002279, Casemate, August 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

<p>On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms of how the conflict had turned a corner – from per...

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Biography & Memoires

Culture Studies

You Were Never in Chicago

Steinberg Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226104157, ISBN: HB: 9780226772059, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1952 the "New Yorker" published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City". From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residen...

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Europe

Athene Palace Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania

Waldeck R. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086330, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 map

On the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business opp...

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America

Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900 Volume 1: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru

Forment Carlos A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101415, ISBN: HB: 9780226257150, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 maps, 19 figures, 11 tables

Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newsp...

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General

Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-century England

Andrew Donna T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184334, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"Attack on Aristocratic Vice" examines the outrage against – and attempts to end – the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four, it was commonly believed, owed their or...

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Managing the Mountains Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia

Gregg Sara M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192568, ISBN: HB: 9780300142198, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest, park, and agricultural polic...

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America

Gender Studies

Nature's Noblemen Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-century American West

Rico Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300136067, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. R...

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Middle East

Political Science

Egypt on the Brink From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood

Osman Tarek

ISBN: PB: 9780300198690, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 20 illus.

In February 2011, following an extraordinary eighteen days of continual protest by the Egyptian people, President Mubarak agreed to resign, bringing thirty years of a repressive and stagnant regime to an end. In June 2012, a new president was elected...

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Medieval

Late Medieval English Church Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome

Bernard G. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197129, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

<p>The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book historian G. W. Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church with vibrant faith and g...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Woodrow Wilson Princeton to the Presidency

Maynard W. Barksdale

ISBN: PB: 9780300204889, Yale University Press, July 2013
406 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive yea...

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