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Military

Ancient World

Roman Legionary Soldiers of Empire

Elliott Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612006116, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously t...

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Media Studies

Africa

Gogo Breeze Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

Englund Harri

ISBN: PB: 9780226498935, ISBN: HB: 9780226498768, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy ove...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Godoy's Army Spanish Regiments and Uniforms from the Estado Militar of 1800

Esdailes Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781911512653, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
120 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 79 colour plates

Based on an extremely rare (albeit slightly incomplete) illustrated version of the Spanish Army's order of battle as it existed in the year 1800, this work cannot but form a most unusual addition to the collection of anyone interested in military uni...

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General

America

Making the Unequal Metropolis School Desegregation and Its Limits

Erickson Ansley T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528915, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's "Making the Unequal Metropolis" presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school polici...

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Military

High Command British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Elliott Christopher L.

ISBN: PB: 9781849048132, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From 2001 Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Victory" in such conflicts is always hard to gauge and domestic political backing for them was never robust. For this, the governments of Tony Blai...

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Military

Army of James II, 1685-1688 The Birth of the British Army

Ede-Borrett Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781911512363, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

Between James' accession in February 1685 and flight in December 1688 the British Armies increased four fold (the English, Scots and Irish Armies were still separate institutions and were to remain so until the early 18th Century, in the case of the...

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Criminology

America

Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution

Eckstein Arthur M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221183, Yale University Press, February 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jon...

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Europe

Rise of Thomas Cromwell Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534

Everett Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300223514, ISBN: HB: 9780300207422, Yale University Press, September 2016
376 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.

How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell's early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VII...

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Asia

Political Science

Caretaking Democratization The Military and Political Change in Myanmar

Egreteau Renaud

ISBN: HB: 9781849046589, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian 'hybrid' regime. Striking political, social, and economi...

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America

G.I. Messiahs Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

Ebel Jonathan H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176704, Yale University Press, December 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our no...

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