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Ancient World

Conquest of Ruins The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome

Hell Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226588193, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in "The Conquest of Ruins", what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginat...

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America

Conspiracies of Conspiracies How Delusions Have Overrun America

Konda Thomas Milan

ISBN: HB: 9780226585765, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion –...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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Military

Crucible of the Jacobite '15 The Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715

Oates Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512899, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 illus.

Just over three centuries ago, there was a major battle in Scotland that was to decide the fate of the newly established – and bitterly contested – union of England and Scotland. On one hand there was a numerically superior army, trained and armed bu...

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Military

Courage without Glory The British Army on the Western Front 1915

Jones Spencer

ISBN: PB: 9781912174119, ISBN: HB: 9781910777183, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour maps, 15 black&white illus.

The year 1915 was one of unprecedented challenges for the British Army. Short of manpower, firepower and experience, the army needed time to adapt before it could hope to overcome the formidable German defences of the Western Front. Yet the insistent...

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Political Science

Asia

China Imagined From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power

Lee Gregory B.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380165, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name "China" was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and i...

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America

Caught in the Maelstrom The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Crowe Clint

ISBN: HB: 9781611213362, Casemate, Savas Beatie, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 10 illus.

The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes – the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole – during America's Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war...

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America

Chicago by the Book 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

ISBN: HB: 9780226468501, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 145 colour plates

Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" arose from the midwestern capital's mo...

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World

Conspiracy Book A Chronological Journey through Secret Societies and Hidden Histories

Greer John Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781454930044, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2018
224 pp., 22.4x17.8 cm, illus.

In this fascinating book, scholar of the occult and secret histories, John Michael Greer shines light on 100 mysterious conspiracies throughout history, from Ancient Greece to today. These include everything from secret societies who planned coup d'e...

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Africa

Political Science

Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...

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