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New Approaches to the Military History of the English Civil War Proceedings of the First Helion And Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference, 2015

Pells Ismini

ISBN: HB: 9781911096443, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 diags, 2 maps, 5 statistical tables

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the military history of the English Civil War and its associated conflicts in Ireland and Scotland. Historians are increasingly paying attention to the "actualities of war" (to use Sir Basil Lidde...

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America

Nut Country Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Miller Edward H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421216, ISBN: HB: 9780226205380, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today". That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city th...

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History

Asia

Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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Military

Normandy War Cemeteries A Guide Book

Stewart Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9782815102933, Casemate, OREP, April 2016
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Normandy, North, South, East and West, has numerous war cemeteries, mostly from World War Two but also from World War One. The coastline of western Normandy, through the history of one pivotal day – D-Day June 6th 1944, has made it one of the most vi...

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General

America

Newark Frontier Community Action in the Great Society

Krasovic Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226352794, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism's failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it's true that these faili...

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Medieval

Neighboring Faiths Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

Nirenberg David

ISBN: PB: 9780226379852, ISBN: HB: 9780226168937, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In "Neighboring Faiths", David Nirenberg examines...

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America

National Duties Custom Houses and the Making of the American State

Rao Gautham

ISBN: HB: 9780226367071, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables

In the wake of the American Revolution, if you had asked a citizen whether his fledgling state would survive more than two centuries, the answer would have been far from confident. The problem, as is so often the case, was money. Left millions of dol...

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Nation of Neighborhoods Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

Looker Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226290317, ISBN: HB: 9780226073989, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 1 line drawing

Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In "A Nation of Neighborhoods", Benja...

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America

Necessary Evil Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982812, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 3 line drawings, 6 maps

From the Mormon Wars to the Border Wars to gangs of Bald Knobbers and Bushwhackers, Missouri's reign of vigilante justice during the nineteenth century is unparalleled by any other state in the nation. Situated as the Gateway to the West, Missouri ex...

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America

Nature and Nurture of Love From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America

Marga Vicedo

ISBN: PB: 9780226215136, ISBN: HB: 9780226020556, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones, 4 line illus.

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists – anything from the fear of romantic comm...

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