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Africa

Oman Politics and Society in the Qaboos State

Valeri Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781849044851, ISBN: HB: 9781850659334, Hurst Publishers, November 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When Sultan Qaboos overthrew his father as ruler of the Persian Gulf state of Oman in 1970, with the help of British advisers, few expected him to survive long. He was unknown to his own population, and the country was poor and...

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Military

Intimate War An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict

Martin Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781849048910, ISBN: HB: 9781849043366, Hurst Publishers, November 2017
424 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "An Intimate War" tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses – the So...

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Europe

Tiger in the Smoke Art and Culture in Post-War Britain

Nead Lynda

ISBN: HB: 9780300214604, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 190 colour and black&white illus.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, "The Tiger in the Smoke" provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Brit...

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America

First Impressions A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest

Weber David J., DeBuys William

ISBN: HB: 9780300215045, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.

This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the fi...

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America

Forgotten Continent A History of the New Latin America

Reid Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300224658, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent". The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid...

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Africa

Freedom's Debtors British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution

Scanlan Padraic X.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217445, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade w...

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America

American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Madley Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300230697, ISBN: HB: 9780300181364, Yale University Press, October 2017
712 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars tha...

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Middle East

Words are Weapons Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror

Salazar Philippe-Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300223224, Yale University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aestheti...

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Europe

Day at Home in Early Modern England Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700

Hamling Tara, Richardson Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300195019, Yale University Press, October 2017
304 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 280 colour illus.

This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging...

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America

American West A New Interpretive History

Hine Robert V., Faragher John Mack, Coleman Jon T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185171, Yale University Press, October 2017
520 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 228 black&white illus.

The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it p...

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