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Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer

Pritchett Wendell E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214016, ISBN: HB: 9780226684482, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advoc...

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Jewish Studies

American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader

Phillip Zola Gary, Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781611685107, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2014
478 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials...

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Europe

Military

Disease, War, and the Imperial State The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War

Charters Erica

ISBN: HB: 9780226180007, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map, 1 table

The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of Eu...

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Anthropology

America

Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights

Metcalfe Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781602232396, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alas...

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America

Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886

Donahue Katherine C., Switzer David C.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones

On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...

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Travel

Europe

Frontline Madrid Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War

Mathieson David

ISBN: PB: 9781909930094, Signal Books, November 2014
208 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned...

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Middle East

Qatar and the Arab Spring

Ulrichsen Kristian Coates

ISBN: HB: 9781849044332, Hurst Publishers, November 2014
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Qatar and the Arab Spring" offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari po...

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Military

Wellington's Wars The Making of a Military Genius

Davies Huw

ISBN: PB: 9780300208658, ISBN: HB: 9780300164176, Yale University Press, October 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington lives on in popular memory as the 'Invincible General', loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate – and controversial – n...

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Current Affairs

Military

Useful Enemies When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them

Keen David

ISBN: PB: 9780300205435, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructiv...

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Military

Festung Guernsey, Volumes 2.1 & 2.2 Weapons Deployed and Mirus Battery

ISBN: PB: 9780992667139, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, October 2014
102 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 218 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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