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Culture Studies

Stories of Our Collection Stories of Our Collection

ISBN: HB: 9780911028270, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
200 pp., 30x23 cm, colour throughout illus.

To mark its 125th anniversary, the Newberry has assembled one hundred and twenty-five of its most significant objects in one beautifully illustrated volume. Arranged in order to tell both the story of the library as an institution and its collecting...

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Asia

Document Raj Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India

Raman Bhavani

ISBN: HB: 9780226703275, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones

Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in "Document Raj", uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of...

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Africa

Political Science

Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution

Knudsen Are, Kerr Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781849042499, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a prize for invaders since ancient times, a small multi-denominational state still recovering from a bloody civil war in its search for political autonomy and stability....

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Africa

Songs and Secrets South Africa from Liberation to Governance

Gilder Barry

ISBN: HB: 9781849042376, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times. Confrontation between Thabo Mbeki, and his then deputy, Jacob Zuma; the dismissal of Zuma as Deputy; Zuma's de...

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Europe

Travel

Oxford Past Times The Changing Face of City and County

Koenig Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781908493651, Signal Books, November 2012
288 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 70 black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! For more than ten years Chris Koenig's "Past Times" column has been a regular favourite in the Oxford Times , bringing to life unexpected and sometimes unusual aspects of the city and county's history. Ranging over Oxford and i...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Familiarity of Strangers The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period

Trivellato Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780300187496, Yale University Press, October 2012
480 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Edward Bancroft Scientist, Author, Spy

Schaeper Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187458, Yale University Press, October 2012
352 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm, 4 black&white illus.

A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a sc...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Cultural History of Wallonia

Demoulin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...

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America

American Georgics Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land

Hagenstein Edwin C., Gregg Sara M., Donahue Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300188042, Yale University Press, October 2012
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 33 black&white illus.

From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing fro...

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Russia's Cold War From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall

Haslam Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300188196, Yale University Press, October 2012
544 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: "We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity". The Soviet U...

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