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Asia

Terrestrial Lessons The Conquest of the World as Globe

Ramaswamy Sumathi

ISBN: HB: 9780226476575, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 51 halftones

Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which s...

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America

Forgotten Continent A History of the New Latin America

Reid Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300224658, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent". The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid...

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Military

Last Ironsides The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662-1668

Riley Jonathon

ISBN: PB: 9781912174102, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., 22 maps

When Charles II returned home he began the search for a dynastic marriage. He fixed upon the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza, whose dowry included the possession of Tangier, Bombay and valuable trade concessions. The Portuguese had been fi...

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Aviation

Military

Brazilians at War Brazilian Aviation in the Second World War

Rivas Santiago

ISBN: PB: 9781911512585, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 270 black&white photos, 35 colour photos, 6 maps, 10 tables

When the Second World War erupted, Latin America – despite being initially neutral – became part of it. Brazil, with its large provision of goods to the Allied Powers, was soon a victim of the Axis submarines – leading to the urgent development of an...

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Political Science

World

Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

Rinke Stefan, Wildt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...

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America

Revolution Against Empire Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence

Rivage Justin du

ISBN: HB: 9780300214246, Yale University Press, August 2017
396 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation "Revolution Against Empire" sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political a...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Aethelred The Unready

Roach Levi

ISBN: PB: 9780300229721, Yale University Press, August 2017
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

<p>An imaginative reassessment of Aethelred "the Unready", one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred "the Unready" (978-1016) has long been considered to be ins...

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Political Science

Middle East

Struggle for Iraq A View from the Ground Up

Renahan Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348827, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Struggle for Iraq" is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003; lat...

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Aviation

Flight of the Dragon A Taiwanese U-2 Pilot's Long Journey to Freedom

Rios Bromley Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781911096481, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 photos

When Chang-di "Robin" Yeh departed on his scheduled recon flight on 1 November 1963, his life was full of promise. In an instant, the experienced pilot transitioned from a free man to a prisoner held on spy charges by mainland China. Promised early o...

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Military

Killer Butterflies Combat, Psychology and Morale in the British 19th (Western) Division 1915-18

Roberts James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512240, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
168 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In this ground-breaking work, James Roberts examines the willingness and ability of British volunteer and conscript infantrymen of the Great War to perform the soldier's fundamental role: to kill or maim the enemy, and accept the attendant chance of...

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