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Military

Our Latest Longest War Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

O'Connell Aaron B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598567, ISBN: HB: 9780226265650, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. Amer...

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Ancient World

Conquest of Ruins The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome

Hell Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226588193, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in "The Conquest of Ruins", what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginat...

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America

Conspiracies of Conspiracies How Delusions Have Overrun America

Konda Thomas Milan

ISBN: HB: 9780226585765, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion –...

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Middle East

Political Science

Doves Among Hawks Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movements

Cohen Samy

ISBN: HB: 9781787380240, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What has become of Israel's peace movement? In the early 1980s, it was a major political force, bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets; but since then, its importance has declined amid spiralling violence. Now, and esp...

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Hinduism

Asia

Majoritarian State How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India

Chatterji Angana P., Blom Hansen Thomas, Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9781787381476, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
472 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Majoritarian State" traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its ag...

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Political Science

America

Back Channel American Diplomacy in a Disordered World

Burns William J.

ISBN: HB: 9781787381230, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time – from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of re...

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Political Science

Europe

Brexit in History Sovereignty or a European Union?

Heuser Beatrice

ISBN: HB: 9781787381261, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but collapsed before it could deliv...

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Europe

History of Finland Directions, Structures, Turning-Points

Meinander Henrik

ISBN: PB: 9781787380301, ISBN: HB: 9781849040907, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Henrik Meinander paints a brisk and bold picture of the history of Finland from integrated part of the Swedish kingdom to autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, gradually transformed and maturing into a conscious nat...

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Middle East

Iran Resurgent The Rise and Rise of the Shia State

Abedin Mahan

ISBN: PB: 9781849049559, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Iran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power. Iran projects its influence throughout the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Moreover, Iranian diplomacy...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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