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America

Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss

Nelson R. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226334493, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 maps

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law – he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his a...

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Military

Dazzle Disguise and Disruption in War and Art

James Taylor

ISBN: HB: 9781910860144, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, September 2016
128 pp., 26.4x21 cm

In 1917 Dazzle painting, also known as Dazzle camouflage, was conceived and developed by the celebrated marine artist and then naval commander Norman Wilkinson. Dazzle rejected concealment in favour of disruption. It seeks to break up a ship's silhou...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Dissenting Japan A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima

Andrews William

ISBN: HB: 9781849045797, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Following the March 2011 Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan. The pos...

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World

Dynamite Club How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror

Merriman John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300217926, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the...

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Ancient World

Democracy's Beginning The Athenian Story

Mitchell Thomas N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215038, Yale University Press, October 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...

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Europe

Dirty Old London The Victorian Fight Against Filth

Jackson Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300216110, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this inti...

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Europe

Days of Adversity The Warsaw Uprising 1944

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096733, ISBN: HB: 9781909982956, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 100 black&white illus.

This work is a re-examination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised a...

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Europe

Women Studies

Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance

Hurlburt Holly S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...

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Political Science

Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

Turner Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780226325897, ISBN: HB: 9780226817460, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in "The Democrat...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Duke's Assassin Exile and Death of Lorenzino De' Medici

Dall'Aglio Stefano, Weinstein Donald

ISBN: HB: 9780300189780, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Stefano Dall'Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de' Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations of Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murderin...

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