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Military

Wars of Plunder Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources

Le Billon Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9781849041454, ISBN: HB: 9781849042697, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focusing on key resources – oil, diamonds, and timber – he argues that resources and wars are linked in three main ways. First, resource revenues finance belligerents, a trend that has become all the more conspicuous since the...

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America

Savages and Scoundrels The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire Through Indian Territory

Develder Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300181852, Yale University Press, March 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

<p>What really happened in the early days of the American nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book t...

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Ancient World

Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics

Faulkner Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300159073, Yale University Press, March 2012
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B. C. ? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us...

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Current Affairs

Islam

Apocalyptic Realm Jihad in South Asia

Hiro Dilip

ISBN: HB: 9780300173789, Yale University Press, March 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

This hard hitting and timely book explores the roots of militant Islam in South Asia and how it has grown to become a source of profound global alarm. Dilip Hiro tracks the growth of the jihadist movement from its first violent activities in Afghanis...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...

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Europe

Empire's Children Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

Saada Emmanuelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226733081, ISBN: HB: 9780226733074, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discove...

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Military

Wars of the Roses

Hicks Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300181579, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished hi...

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America

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 40 May 16 Through September 15, 1783

Cohn Ellen R., Dull Jonathan R., Ohno Kate M., Anderson Alicia K., Garbooshian Adrina, Sletcher Michael, Ziesche Philipp, Cain Alysia M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300165463, Yale University Press, February 2012
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

During the period of this volume, the United States of America completed its transformation into a fully recognized independent nation. In May, Franklin and his fellow American peace commissioners John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens recommenced t...

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Europe

King Stephen

King Edmund

ISBN: PB: 9780300181951, Yale University Press, February 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Ed...

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Anthropology

America

Cuban Fiestas

Echevarria Roberto Gonzalez

ISBN: PB: 9780300177886, ISBN: HB: 9780300167061, Yale University Press, February 2012
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 17 colour illus.

In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls "watching them at...

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