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Daily Thomas Paine A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age

Paine Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226653518, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis", Paine codified both co...

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General

Europe

Spartakiads The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia

Petr Roubal

ISBN: PB: 9788024638515, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
350 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring hu...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question

Pojar Milos

ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...

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Cartography

Europe

Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe

Piechocki Katharina N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....

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Europe

In Quest of History On Czech Statehood and Identity

Priban Jiri, Hvizdala Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024642673, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiri Priban and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvizdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech...

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America

Polonica

American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226406619, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaho...

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Europe

European Seaborne Empires From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions

Paquette Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300205152, Yale University Press, July 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the development of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to re-examine their dev...

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Military

Aviation

Gott Strafe England Volume 3: The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914-1918

Parker Nigel J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512752, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2019
356 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 black&white photos, 30 line drawings, maps

The aerial attacks against Great Britain by airships and aircraft in the Great War were a new development in the history of British warfare. Previously, it had been the British armies that had crossed the seas to do the fighting in foreign lands, but...

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Asia

Mirrorlands Russia, China, and Journeys in Between

Pulford Ed

ISBN: PB: 9781787381384, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Mirrorlands" is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russ...

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Military

America

And We Were Young Oundle School and the Great War

Pendrill Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174195, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
432 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 300 black&white photos

"A boy, he spent his boy's dear life for England". These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot himself, whilst stranded in the Libyan Desert. With...

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