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America

Albrecht Durer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Brisman Shira

ISBN: HB: 9780226354750, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 colour plates, 86 halftones

Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Durer, Shira B...

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Anthropology

General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Anthropology

Medieval

Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries

Kay Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226436739, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates, 28 halftones

Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin besti...

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Europe

Art of the Bribe Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953

Heinzen James

ISBN: HB: 9780300175257, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen's innova...

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America

Asia

Asian America A Primary Source Reader

Schlund-Vials Cathy J., Wong K. Scott, Chang Jason Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780300195446, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a w...

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Military

Approach to Battle Training the Indian Army During the Second World War

Jeffreys Alan

ISBN: HB: 9781911096511, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps

The Indian Army was the largest volunteer army during the Second World War. Indian Army divisions fought in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy – and went to make up the overwhelming majority of the troops in South East Asia. Over two million per...

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Europe

August 1914 France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever

Cabanes Professor Bruno, O'Hara Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208276, Yale University Press, November 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldier...

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Military

Arte Militaire The Application of 17th Century Military Manuals to Conflict Archaeology

Louth Warwick

ISBN: PB: 9781911096221, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
88 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 25 black&white illus., 19 diagramss, 15 photos

Military manuals have been used as a source through a range of historical studies, but only recently has their potential to Conflict Archaeology truly been recognised. Military manuals allowed the progression of the Military Revolution from the infor...

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Military

Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 1: Northen Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87

Wharton Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781911096276, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

The period under review covers the years of 1984-1987 – nearing the end of the third decade of the Troubles. It will use research and oral contributions from the mid to late 1980s and will show not only how the Provisional IRA (PIRA) grew in financia...

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Biography & Memoires

America

American Ulysses A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

White Ronald C.

ISBN: HB: 9781400069026, Casemate, Presidio Press, September 2016
816 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 120 illus.

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller, A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a majo...

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