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Europe

Postwar Moment Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

Woloch Isser

ISBN: HB: 9780300124354, Yale University Press, March 2019
560 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 29 black&white illus.

After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original...

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America

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

Burnard Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226639246, ISBN: HB: 9780226286105, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 18 tables

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men – men w...

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Europe

Peace at Last A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

Cuthbertson Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300233384, Yale University Press, October 2018
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 24 black&white illus.

November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy are much discussed, this is the first book to focus solely on the day itself, examining how t...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Pakistan Adrift Navigating Troubled Waters

Durrani Asad

ISBN: HB: 9781849049610, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Asad Durrani served as a three star general in the Pakistan army, and later headed the Inter-Services Intelligence agency from 1990 to 1992. His time in service encompassed the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan and dis...

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Middle East

Persian Gulf Command A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq

Jackson Ashley

ISBN: HB: 9780300221961, Yale University Press, May 2018
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 map, 24 black&white illus.

This dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these two countries were more important to the Allied forces' war operations than has ever been acknowledged...

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Ancient World

Praetorian The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard

Bedoyere Guy de la

ISBN: PB: 9780300234381, Yale University Press, April 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.

A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make – or destroy – the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection...

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Europe

Portrait of a Woman in Silk Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World

Anishanslin Zara

ISBN: PB: 9780300234237, Yale University Press, March 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 43 black&white illus.

Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarshi...

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Middle East

Poisoned Well Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East

Hardy Roger

ISBN: PB: 9781849049542, ISBN: HB: 9781849046398, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
288 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To understand them, we need to grasp how Western imperialism shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between 1917 and 1967. That is t...

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Ancient World

Biography & Memoires

Philo of Alexandria An Intellectual Biography

Niehoff Maren R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300175233, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that hi...

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Military

Peter The Great Humbled The Russo-Ottoman War Of 1711

Dorrell Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781911512318, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
88 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps, 18 black&white illus.

In 1711 Peter the Great, the Tsar of Russia, led a large army of veterans from Poltava and his other Great Northern War victories into the Balkans. He aimed to humble the Ottomans in the same way he had the Swedes a few years before. Victory would se...

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