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Citizen Portrait Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales

Cooper Tarnya

ISBN: HB: 9780300162790, Yale University Press, September 2012
240 pp., 27x22 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. But in the second half of the 16th century...

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America

Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Schleifer James T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226737041, ISBN: HB: 9780226737034, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
216 pp., 23x15 cm

One of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, "Democracy in America" continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation and its political culture. The work is, however, as c...

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Middle East

City of Soldiers A Year of Life, Death and Survival in Afghanistan

Fearon Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781908493088, Signal Books, May 2012
288 pp., 21.5x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! Behind the headlines, the strategies, the surges, what is life really like in Afghanistan? What is it like to live and work there as a civilian on state-building with its people, fighting the Taliban with flip-charts and pens,...

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Anthropology

America

Cuban Fiestas

Echevarria Roberto Gonzalez

ISBN: PB: 9780300177886, ISBN: HB: 9780300167061, Yale University Press, February 2012
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 17 colour illus.

In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls "watching them at...

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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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Architecture

America

City of American Dreams A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

Garb Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226282107, ISBN: HB: 9780226282091, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 15 halftones

In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing v...

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Europe

Children of the Greek Civil War Refugees and the Politics of Memory

Danforth Loring M., Boeschoten Riki

ISBN: PB: 9780226135991, ISBN: HB: 9780226135984, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 11 halftones

At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversarie...

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Asia

Political Science

China or Japan Which Will Lead Asia?

Meyer Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781849042154, ISBN: HB: 9781849041720, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The twenty-first century will doubtless be that of Asia, which by 2030 will be home to three of the world's four mightiest economies, including India. This stimulating book aims to open a debate on the question of leadership in...

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Europe

Counter-Revolution The Second Civil War and Its Origins, 1646-1648

Ashton Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300184075, Yale University Press, November 2011
552 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

While much has been written on the subject of the English Civil War, the Second Civil War has been largely neglected. Robert Ashton, author of the standard history, The English Civil War, now provides a detailed and erudite account of the origins of...

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General

America

Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America

Brown Richard Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780300184082, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements...

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