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America

Conceived in Doubt Religion and Politics in the New American Nation

Porterfield Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780226271965, ISBN: HB: 9780226675121, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
264 pp., 23x15 cm

Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition – and in spite of evangelicalism...

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Captain and "the Cannibal" An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

Fairhead James

ISBN: HB: 9780300198775, Yale University Press, May 2015
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Mo...

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Europe

Competing Visions of Empire Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

Swingen Abigail L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300187540, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Abigail L. Swingen's insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England's original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and...

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America

Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures

Lavin Lucianne, Grant-Costa Paul, Volpe Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300212587, ISBN: HB: 9780300186642, Yale University Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 37 colour illus., 235 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking volume on the rich 13,000-plus-year history and culture of Connecticut's indigenous peoples More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written record...

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Africa

Creating Africas Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land

Nustad Knut G.

ISBN: PB: 9781849042581, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. "Creating Africas" investi...

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Literary Criticism

Asia

Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Schafer Dagmar

ISBN: PB: 9780226272801, ISBN: HB: 9780226735849, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
352 pp., 22.9x16.3 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line illus.

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this peri...

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Asia

China-Pakistan Axis Asia's New Geopolitics

Small Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781849043410, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipe...

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America

Crisis of the Wasteful Nation Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America

Tyrrell Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780226197760, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones

Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as...

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Military

Canada's Bastions of Empire Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918

Elson Bryan

ISBN: HB: 9781459503267, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, October 2014
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 100 black&white illus.

This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for t...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Camouflage and Markings of Allied Armor in the Battle for Cassino January - May 1944

Plowman Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9788360672228, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, October 2014
56 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 20 colour illus., 78 black&white illus.

Published to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the battle for Cassino, this is an authoritative guide to the armor deployed by the Allies over the course of the fighting for this strategic objective. Covering American, British, Indian, Canadian,...

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