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America

History in the Making

Elliott J. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300186383, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a historian of Spain, Europe, and the...

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Political Science

Military

Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict

Eric D. Patterson

ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...

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Anthropology

America

Cuban Fiestas

Echevarria Roberto Gonzalez

ISBN: PB: 9780300177886, ISBN: HB: 9780300167061, Yale University Press, February 2012
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 17 colour illus.

In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls "watching them at...

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Africa

Season of Rains Africa and the World

Ellis Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781849041805, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often it is seen as heading for either disaster or salvation; the realities are more subtle, more complicated than this binary op...

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Business & Economics

Ancient World

Economic Origins of Roman Christianity

Ekelund Robert B. Jr., Tollison Robert D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226200026, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 1 line illus.

In the global marketplace of ideas, few realms spark as much conflict as religion. For millions of people, it is an integral part of everyday life, reflected by a widely divergent supply of practices and philosophical perspectives. Yet, historically,...

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Europe

Terror of Natural Right Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184395, ISBN: HB: 9780226184388, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
350 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 halftones, 2 line illus.

Natural right – the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin – is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right", Dan Edelstein argues...

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Europe

Enlightenment A Genealogy

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184494, ISBN: HB: 9780226184470, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
184 pp., 21.5x13 cm

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first em...

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Anthropology

World

Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany

Evans Andrew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...

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Africa

Madagascar A Short History

Ellis Stephen, Randrianja Solofo

ISBN: PB: 9781850659471, Hurst Publishers, April 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Two thousand years ago, Madagascar was probably uninhabited. An isl and twice the size of Great Britain, it was home to unique species of flora and fauna that were undisturbed by humanity until the first navigators landed on it...

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Middle East

Political Science

Revolt on the Tigris The Sadr Uprising and Governing Iraq

Etherington Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781850657736, Hurst Publishers, June 2005
250 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A former paratrooper in the British Army with extensive experience of conflict and post-conflict management in the countries of former Yugoslavia, Mark Etherington had just completed a degree in international relations at Cambr...

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