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Tales from the Long Twelfth Century The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire

Huscroft Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300228700, ISBN: HB: 9780300187250, Yale University Press, September 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or...

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Bodleian Library Treasures

Vaisey David

ISBN: PB: 9781851244089, ISBN: HB: 9781851244775, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2017
240 pp., 27x27 cm, 180 colour illus.

Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all ages and from all corners of the globe. From this huge collection David Vaisey, former Bodley's Librarian...

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Conquest of Death Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State

Lockwood Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300217063, Yale University Press, August 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner. In his fascinating debut, Matthew Lockwood explores the history of crime, homicide, and suicide in England over four centuries through the office of...

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Military

In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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Biography & Memoires

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Aethelred The Unready

Roach Levi

ISBN: PB: 9780300229721, Yale University Press, August 2017
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

<p>An imaginative reassessment of Aethelred "the Unready", one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred "the Unready" (978-1016) has long been considered to be ins...

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Gulag Letters

Formakov Arsenii, Johnson Emily D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209310, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps. Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formak...

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Henry IV

Given-Wilson Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780300229714, Yale University Press, August 2017
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 pp. black&white illus.

<p>Henry IV (1399-1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his death, aged forty-five, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry V. This comprehe...

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Political Science

Rival Power Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe

Bechev Dimitar

ISBN: HB: 9780300219135, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 maps, 11 figs

Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, "yes". With rising global anxiety over Russia's political policies...

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Children's World Growing Up in Russia (1890-1991)

Kelly Catriona

ISBN: HB: 9780300112269, Yale University Press, August 2017
480 pp., 24.6x17.1 cm, 115 black&white illus.

How a country views its children reveals a great deal. This landmark history of childhood in twentieth-century Russia presents an enthralling and detailed picture of a society where childhood was celebrated everywhere, but children's real needs were...

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Jewish Studies

Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War

Grady Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...

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