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Fortress Europe Inside the War Against Immigration

Carr Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849046275, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new "borderless" Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent's worst r...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Canfield Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226298375, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 108 colour plates, 1 line drawing

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer – he was also...

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Military

Three Republics One Navy A Naval History of France 1870-1999

Clayton Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9781911096740, ISBN: HB: 9781909982994, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In the 1870s, to supplement their early steam engines, French warships were still rigged for sail. In the 1970s the Marine Nationale's ships at sea included aircraft carriers operating supersonic jets, and intercontinental ballistic missile submarine...

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America

Holy Nation The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution

Crabtree Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226255767, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

Early American Quakers have long been perceived as retiring separatists, but in "Holy Nation" Sarah Crabtree transforms our historical understanding of the sect by drawing on the sermons, diaries, and correspondence of Quakers themselves. Situating Q...

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America

Isaac and Isaiah The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

Caute David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212327, ISBN: HB: 9780300192094, Yale University Press, June 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of...

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Military

Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

Chick Sean Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781612347127, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2015
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 illus.

The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland Campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered...

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Jewish Studies

America

Metropolitan Jews Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit

Corwin Berman Lila

ISBN: HB: 9780226247830, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked tow...

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Military

Open Wounds Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide

Cheterian Vicken

ISBN: HB: 9781849044585, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, a high-profile advocate of Turkish – Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently...

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Medieval

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Cohen Thomas V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226269719, ISBN: HB: 9780226112589, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
316 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 map

Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabro...

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Military

Africa

Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath

Cole Peter, McQuinn Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781849043090, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e...

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