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Middle East

Partitioning Palestine British Policymaking at the End of Empire

Sinanoglou Penny

ISBN: HB: 9780226665788, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

"Partitioning Palestine" is the first history of the ideological and political forces that led to the idea of partition – that is, a division of territory and sovereignty – in British mandate Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. Inve...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome

Crowley Patrick R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226648293, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...

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General

Africa

Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa

Ludwig Carmen

ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones

"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...

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Ancient World

Postclassicisms

ISBN: PB: 9780226672311, ISBN: HB: 9780226672281, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

Made up of nine prominent scholars, The Postclassicisms Collective aims to map a space for theorizing and reflecting on the values attributed to antiquity. The product of these reflections, Postclassicisms takes up a set of questions about what it me...

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Anthropology

America

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

Colwell Chip

ISBN: PB: 9780226684444, ISBN: HB: 9780226298993, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects...

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Asia

People Next Door The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan

Raghavan T. C. A.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380196, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nati...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Parlour and the Street Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta

Banerjee Sumanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857426178, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta's urban poor following the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Consisting primarily of traditional artisans who migrated from neighboring vill...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Past as Present Forging Contemporary Identities Through History

Thapar Romila

ISBN: HB: 9780857426444, Seagull Books, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between...

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Europe

Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State

Vaughn James M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208269, Yale University Press, April 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded "in a fit of absence of mind". He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the mod...

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America

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 43 August 16, 1784, through March 15, 1785

Cohn Ellen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300236064, Yale University Press, March 2019
640 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In August 1784, Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson began their congressional commission to negotiate commercial treaties with twenty nations. Their treaty proposal, which Prussia alone would consider, contained unprecedented humanitarian arti...

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