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Political Science

Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy How America's Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest

McDougall Walter A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300244533, ISBN: HB: 9780300211450, Yale University Press, May 2019
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A fierce critique of civil religion as the taproot of America's bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.S. f...

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America

Political Science

Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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Military

America

Thunder in the Harbor Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the American Civil War

Mackowski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781611211856, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2019
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 black&white illus., 4 maps

At 4:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire. Thirty-four hours later, with their supplies running low but their honor satisfied, Federal forces lowered their tattered flag. The only casualty – an accidental death – came...

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Stay and Fight it Out The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield

Mackowski Chris, White Kristopher, Davis Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213317, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.

July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinf...

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America

Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake

Musselwhite Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226585284, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

The early Europeans settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some viewed the bay as a wild landscape waiting to be tamed, while others saw potential there for spiritual sanctuary. But all of th...

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America

Caribbean Winter

Morand Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781909930681, Signal Books, October 2018
176 pp., 21.5x16 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1927, Paul Morand – a French diplomat and noted European author – made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience o...

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America

Wellington Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852

Muir Rory

ISBN: PB: 9780300232820, ISBN: HB: 9780300187861, Yale University Press, April 2018
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.

Wellington's momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington's achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat...

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Military

Victory or Death The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777

Maloy Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611213812, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 200 images, 10 maps

December 1776: Just six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the new American Army sit on the verge of utter destruction by the banks of the Delaware River. The despondent and demoralized group of men had...

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Education

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American Academic Cultures A History of Higher Education

Mattingly Paul H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226505268, ISBN: HB: 9780226505121, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it's...

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Military

48th (South Midland) Division 1908-1919

Mitchinson William

ISBN: HB: 9781911512547, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 10 maps

On the outbreak of war, the South Midland was the second strongest division in the Territorial Force (TF); by October 1914, it was considered to be the second most efficient of the TF's fourteen 1st Line formations. Like other TF divisions, its pre-w...

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