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World

Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power

France John

ISBN: PB: 9780300197174, ISBN: HB: 9780300120745, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of...

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Europe

Practicing Stalinism Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

Getty J. Arch

ISBN: HB: 9780300169294, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white tables

In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office-holding was far less important than proxi...

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America

Protocols of Liberty Communication Innovation and the American Revolution

Warner William B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226061375, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 14 line drawings

The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred "in the minds and hearts of the people" before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication a...

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America

Planning the Home Front Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run

Jo Peterson Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226025421, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 19 halftones

Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a "date which will live in infamy"; before American soldiers landed on D-Day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of...

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Middle East

Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945-1947

Golani Motti

ISBN: PB: 9781611684506, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

British General Sir Allan Cunningham was appointed in 1945 as high commissioner of Palestine, and served in this capacity until the end of the British mandate on May 15, 1948. The three years of Cunningham's tenure were tremendously complex political...

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History of Art

Medieval

Pilgrimage and Pogrom Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria

Merback Mitchell B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226520193, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
416 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 122 halftones, 20 colour illus.

In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed miraculously. The allegation fostered tensions between Christians and Je...

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Europe

Petersburg Fin De Siecle

Steinberg Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191981, Yale University Press, March 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

<p>The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described...

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Women Studies

Europe

Panaceia's Daughters Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: HB: 9780226925387, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 15 halftones

"Panaceia's Daughters" provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicin...

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Military

Political Science

Policing Afghanistan The Politics of the Lame Leviathan

Giustozzi Antonio, Isaqzadeh Mohammed

ISBN: HB: 9781849042055, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Policing is not a popular topic of serious scholarly research. Although a vast literature on policing exists, it is mostly technical in nature and only rarely analytical. Even the police forces of Western Europe and North Ameri...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Photosniper, No. 06 BMW R 75 and Other BMW Motorcycles in the German Army in 1930-1945

Nieweglowski Wojciech

ISBN: PB: 9788362878390, Casemate, Kagero, October 2012
56 pp., 29.7x21 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Poland! The BMW R75 is a World War II-era motorcycle and sidecar combination produced by the German company BMW. In the 1930s BMW were producing a number of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 s...

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