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Africa

Southern Africa Old Treacheries and New Deceits

Chan Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184280, ISBN: HB: 9780300154054, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this timely and essential book, Stephen Chan explores the political landscape of southern Africa, examining how it's poised to change over the next years and what the repercussions are likely to be across the continent. He focuses on three countri...

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Europe

Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

Monter William

ISBN: HB: 9780300173277, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Women of Byzantium

Connor Carolyn L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300186468, Yale University Press, January 2012
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the w...

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America

Notes from the Ground Science, Soil & Society in the American Countryside

Cohen Benjamin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177701, ISBN: HB: 9780300139235, Yale University Press, January 2012
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.

"Notes from the Ground" examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, the book shows how and why agrarian...

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Europe

Propaganda State in Crisis Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror Under Stalin, 1927-1941

Brandenberger David

ISBN: PB: 9780300155372, Yale University Press, January 2012
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, the schools, and the cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party pro...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

Swiecicki Marek

ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps

The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

12th & 15th Air Forces

Paloque Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9782352502104, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2012
128 pp., 25x21 cm, 400 colour profiles, 50 photographs

Created in 1942, and immediately placed under the command of General Doolittle, the 12th Air Force was responsible for conducting Operation Torch on November 8, 1942. The unit served with the Northwest African Air Forces from February to December 19...

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Architecture

America

City of American Dreams A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

Garb Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226282107, ISBN: HB: 9780226282091, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 15 halftones

In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing v...

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Gender Studies

Asia

Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Soneji Davesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.

"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...

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Europe

Children of the Greek Civil War Refugees and the Politics of Memory

Danforth Loring M., Boeschoten Riki

ISBN: PB: 9780226135991, ISBN: HB: 9780226135984, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 11 halftones

At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversarie...

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