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America

Clashing over Commerce A History of US Trade Policy

Irwin Douglas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226678443, ISBN: HB: 9780226398969, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
862 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 21 line drawings

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevit...

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Asia

Political Science

Costliest Pearl China's Struggle for India's Ocean

Lintner Bertil

ISBN: HB: 9781849049962, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He...

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General

Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs

Gordon Colin

ISBN: HB: 9780226647487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...

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America

Ecology

Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America

Belgrad Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226652535, ISBN: HB: 9780226652368, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones

When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback". But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamic...

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America

Cul de Sac Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue

Cheney Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226679259, ISBN: HB: 9780226079356, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkab...

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Asia

Contested Territory Dien Bien Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam

Lentz Christian C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300233957, Yale University Press, June 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The definitive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century, and the Black River borderlands' transformation into Northwest Vietnam Historians regard the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 as the conflict that toppled the French...

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Chinese Spies From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping

Faligot Roger

ISBN: HB: 9781787380967, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
568 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Are the Chinese secret services now the most powerful in the world? After a long investigation into Beijing's intelligence services and the backrooms of international politics, journalist Roger Faligot may have found the answer...

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America

General

Class Matters The Strange Career of an American Delusion

Fraser Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780300244359, ISBN: HB: 9780300221503, Yale University Press, May 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm

From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's "American carnage", class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly illustrating...

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America

Clear and Present Safety The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans

Cohen Michael A., Zenko Micah

ISBN: HB: 9780300222555, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14 cm

What most frightens the average American? Terrorism. North Korea. Iran. But what if none of these are probable or consequential threats to America? What if the world today is safer, freer, wealthier, healthier, and better educated than ever before? W...

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Europe

Croatia A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Fourth Edition)

Tanner Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780300246575, Yale University Press, April 2019
392 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Millions of tourists visit Croatia each year. Every summer, thousands of people walk along the famously beautiful marble-tiled street in Dubrovnik, now a World Heritage site. Of the countries that have emerged since the collapse of communism and the...

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