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Nature

America

Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Nicholls Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...

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Music

Europe

Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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Poetry

Ancient World

Iliad of Homer

Homer

ISBN: PB: 9780226470498, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
608 pp., 22x14 cm, 2 line illus.

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation". For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation – the gold standard for generations of students and general re...

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Ancient World

Multiple Antiquities – Multiple Modernities Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures

Klaniczay Gabor, Werner Michael

ISBN: PB: 9783593391014, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2011
450 pp., 21.2x14.2 cm

Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past...

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America

Slaveholders' Union Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic

Cleve George William

ISBN: PB: 9780226846705, ISBN: HB: 9780226846682, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested polit...

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Military

Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires Private Violence in Historical Context

Colas Alejandro, Mabee Bryan

ISBN: PB: 9781849041492, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves. The prevalence and centrality of...

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Military

Middle East

Pakistan-US Conundrum Jihadists, the Military and the People: The Struggle for Control

Yunas Samad

ISBN: PB: 9781849040105, ISBN: HB: 9781849040099, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Yunas Samad's trenchant analysis of contemporary Pakistan features five main players: the people, the army, the Islamists, the politicians and the Americans. His book explains how a series of alliances borne of political and st...

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Europe

Book in the Renaissance

Pettegree Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300178210, Yale University Press, September 2011
440 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegr...

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Europe

Ralph Tailor's Summer A Scrivener, His City and the Plague

Wrightson Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780300174472, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed as others fled: the scrivener Ralph Tailor....

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America

Defiance of the Patriots The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

Carp Benjamin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178128, ISBN: HB: 9780300117059, Yale University Press, September 2011
328 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 33 black&white illus.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbour. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary a...

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