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From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success

Frusztajer Boruch B.

ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...

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Culture Studies

Asia

Changing Clothes in China Fashion, History, Nation

Finnane Antonia

ISBN: HB: 9781850658603, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century repre...

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Islam

Current Affairs

Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World

Faath Sigrid

ISBN: PB: 9781850657897, Hurst Publishers, January 2006
318 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Anti-Americanism is a far from homogenous phenomenon, even in the Islamic world, where, the press would sometimes have us believe, there exists a near unanimous hostility to the United States. This book, by dint of on the groun...

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Europe

Napoleon and the Invasion of Britain

Franklin Alexandra, Philp Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781851240814, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2003
132 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 148 colour illus.

Chronicling the real fear of a Napoleonic invasion of Britain from 1798 to 1805, this book reconstructs Britain's political, social and military response, and tells the story of the forces dividing the nation in the 1790s, and the debates underlying...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia

Freeze Chaeran Y.

ISBN: PB: 9781584651604, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2001
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

ChaeRan Freeze explores the impact of various forces on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia. Challenging romantic views of the Jewish family in the shtetl, she shows that divorce rates among Russian Jews in the first half of the ce...

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