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Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America

Mancall Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164220, ISBN: HB: 9780300110548, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 44 black&white illus.

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...

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Gender Studies

Hellfire Clubs Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies

Lord Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300164022, Yale University Press, March 2010
250 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sen...

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Military

How to Lose the War on Terror

Perry Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781850659631, ISBN: HB: 9781850659624, Hurst Publishers, March 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 2004 a small group of Americans and Europeans held a series of meetings in Beirut with senior members of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood. And in early 2005, a larger group of former senior American and European g...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

Kershaw Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300151275, Yale University Press, June 2009
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw'...

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Haunted City Nuremberg and the Nazi Past

Neil Gregor

ISBN: HB: 9780300101072, Yale University Press, November 2008
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Nuremberg – a city associated with Nazi excesses, party rallies, and the extreme anti-Semitic propaganda published by Hitler ally Julius Streicher – has struggled since the Second World War to come to terms with the material and moral legacies of Naz...

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Hitler's New Disorder The Second World War in Yugoslavia

Pavlowitch Stevan K.

ISBN: HB: 9781850658955, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across...

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Asia

Histories for the Subordinated

Hardiman David

ISBN: PB: 9781905422388, ISBN: HB: 9781905422371, Seagull Books, October 2006
408 pp., 22.8x15.6 cm

"Histories for the Subordinated" brings together the key writings of David Hardiman, one of the foremost contemporary historians of the subcontinent. Hardiman's practice as a historian – his enormously rich empiricism, archival work, and fieldwork, a...

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Ancient World

Herculaneum Italy's Buried Treasure

Deiss Joseph Jay

ISBN: PB: 9780892361649, Getty Publications, March 2006
222 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 118 black&white illus.

A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Holocaust Controversy The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France

Moyn Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9781584655091, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2005
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred i...

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Sign Language

America

History of Inclusion in the United States

Osgood Robert L.

ISBN: HB: 9781563683183, Gallaudet University Press, May 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with disabilities first were segregated for instruction in public schools, professionals...

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