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America

Other Americans in Paris Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324463, ISBN: HB: 9780226306889, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 11 line drawings

While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember th...

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Europe

Parables of Coercion Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

Kimmel Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780226278285, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unl...

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Middle East

Religion, Empire, and Torture The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226251875, ISBN: HB: 9780226481968, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables

How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in "Religion, Empire, and Torture", Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Per...

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America

Nation of Neighborhoods Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

Looker Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226290317, ISBN: HB: 9780226073989, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 1 line drawing

Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In "A Nation of Neighborhoods", Benja...

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Asia

Political Science

Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence

Mills Greg, Kilcullen David, Davis Dickie, Spencer David

ISBN: HB: 9781849046282, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! No country has managed as rapid and positive a turnaround in governance and security conditions this century as Colombia. In 1999, FARC and ELN rebels were literally at the gates of Bogota, and Colombia was a country synonymous...

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Military

To End a Civil War Norway's Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka

Salter Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781849045742, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
518 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushi...

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Political Science

Carnage and Connectivity Landmarks in the Decline of Conventional Military Power

Betz David

ISBN: HB: 9781849043229, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The burgeoning of global connectivity in recent decades is without historical parallel and the 'wiring up' of the world continues apace, even in the poorest regions. Flux and ever-quickening change are the leitmotifs of the "in...

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Europe

Age of Catastrophe A History of the West 1914-1945

Winkler Heinrich August

ISBN: HB: 9780300204896, Yale University Press, September 2015
1016 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and...

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Islam

Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Evans Helen C., Humphrey Lyle, Brody Lisa, Snow Carol, Bleiberg Edward, Fine Stephen, Labatt Annie, Sinai Hieromonk Justin, Nees Lawrence, Schick Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...

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America

American Census A Social History

Anderson Margo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300195422, Yale University Press, September 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, includ...

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