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Criminology

Woman on the Windowsill A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts

Sellers-Garcia Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9780300234282, Yale University Press, April 2020
296 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 32 black&white illus.

On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to...

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Ancient World

Story of Greece and Rome

Spawforth Tony

ISBN: PB: 9780300251647, ISBN: HB: 9780300217117, Yale University Press, February 2020
392 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 27 colour illus., 5 maps

The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Sp...

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General

America

Newcomers Gentrification and Its Discontents

Schuerman Matthew L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226476261, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transformation of commercial strips that often signify a gentrifying neighborhood, determining who actually ben...

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Middle East

Partitioning Palestine British Policymaking at the End of Empire

Sinanoglou Penny

ISBN: HB: 9780226665788, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

"Partitioning Palestine" is the first history of the ideological and political forces that led to the idea of partition – that is, a division of territory and sovereignty – in British mandate Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. Inve...

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Political Science

America

Learning One's Native Tongue Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America

Strong Tracy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226623221, ISBN: HB: 9780226623191, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political...

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World

How the Old World Ended The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800

Scott Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300243598, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 maps

Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for...

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America

New History of Fiji

Scarr Deryck

ISBN: HB: 9781849049009, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
500 pp., 24.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! Fiji, or "Viti", lies among intricate Southwestern Pacific reefs with upwards of 300 habitable islands and many islets. This book reveals the long history of this overlooked island nation since voyagers first settled there 4,00...

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Political Science

Military

When Peace Kills Politics International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans

Srinivasan Sharath

ISBN: PB: 9781849048316, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why do war and coercion still dominate the political realm in the Sudans, over a decade since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and despite a litany of conflict resolution efforts? This book explains the paradoxical role of in...

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Cartography

America

Atlas of Boston History

Seasholes Nancy S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226631158, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 35.5x27.9 cm, 57 colour plates

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural ca...

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Anthropology

America

Afterlives of Indigenous Archives

Schweitzer Ivy, Henry Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9781512603651, ISBN: HB: 9781512603644, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Afterlives of Indigenous Archives" offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of "digital humanities". The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous sc...

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