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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Babel in Zion Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948

Halperin Liora R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197488, Yale University Press, December 2014
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the l...

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History of Art

Asia

Museum on the Roof of the World Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

Harris Clare E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213170, ISBN: HB: 9780226317472, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
328 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 19 colour plates, 50 halftones, 1 line illus.

For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics...

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Europe

Belgium Long United, Long Divided

Humes Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9781849041461, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This concise history describes the traditions and transitions that over two thousand years have developed in Belgium a sense of shared identity, common government, and a centralised nation-state – and then over a few recent dec...

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World

Ye Berlyn Tapestrie John Hassall's Satirical First World War Panorama

Hassall John, Webb Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781851244164, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2014
64 pp., 14.5x17.5 cm, 30 colour illus.

The horror of the First World War brought out a characteristic response in a group of English artists, who resorted to black humour. Among these, John Hassall, a pioneering British illustrator and creator of the influential 'Skegness is so bracing' p...

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Ancient World

Roman in the Provinces Art on the Periphery of Empire

Hoffman Gail L.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850225, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, August 2014
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 colour plates, 125 halftones

This beautifully illustrated volume presents new ways of thinking about the concept of "being Roman" – with a particular emphasis on the way people in the provinces and on the periphery of the empire reacted to the state of being a Roman subject. Acc...

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Music

Jewish Studies

Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

Haas Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300205350, Yale University Press, June 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

When National Socialism arrived in Germany in 1933, Jews were dominating music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. The party's policy on music brought about a cultur...

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Political Science

Europe

Political Descent Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

Hale Piers J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108490, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thoug...

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Asia

Japan The Paradox of Harmony

Hirata Keiko, Warschauer Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300186079, Yale University Press, May 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

For centuries, people in the West have been fascinated, enchanted and perplexed in equal measure by Japan and its culture. Following a crushing defeat in the Second World War, this small, proud country rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to be...

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Europe

Women Studies

Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

Herbert Amanda E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300177404, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially c...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Artifact and Artifice Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian

Hall Jonathan M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096988, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
280 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 26 halftones, 29 line drawings, 10 tables

Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica home to the apostle Peter? To ans...

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