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Africa

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present

Falola Toyin, Chijioke Njoku Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9780300234831, Yale University Press, October 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Toyin Falola and Raphael Njoku reexamine the history of the relationship between Africa and the United States from the dawn of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Their broad, interdisciplinary book follows the relationship's evolution, tr...

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Asia

Political Science

Vietnam Rising Dragon (Revised and Updated Edition)

Hayton Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300249637, Yale University Press, October 2020
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 black&white illus.

The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Emperor A New Life of Charles V

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300254860, ISBN: HB: 9780300196528, Yale University Press, October 2020
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 maps

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relen...

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Asia

Invention of China

Hayton Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780300234824, Yale University Press, October 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 2 maps

China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how C...

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America

Journey to Freedom Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement

Blansett Kent

ISBN: PB: 9780300255188, Yale University Press, October 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

<p>A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on...

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America

Defectives in the Land Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

Baynton Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226758633, ISBN: HB: 9780226364162, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant".Defectives in the Land", Douglas C. Baynton's groun...

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Cartography

Ancient World

Eternal City A History of Rome in Maps

Maier Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226591452, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 colour plates

One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much...

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America

General

Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation

Mohabir Nalini, Cummings Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...

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Business & Economics

Asia

Invisible China How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise

Rozelle Scott, Hell Natalie

ISBN: HB: 9780226739526, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 figures, 2 tables

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China...

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Europe

Philosophy

Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

Marshall David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226722214, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuse...

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