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Enlightenment's Frontier The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780300162547, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 maps, 7 black&white illus.

"Enlightenment's Frontier" looks at the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment – which gave birth to modern-day environmentalism – and sheds new light on Scottish thinkers such as Carl Linneaus, David Hume and Adam Smith. In this groundbreaking ne...

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Africa

Political Science

Ethiopian Revolution War in the Horn of Africa

Tareke Gebru, Kagan Donald, Kagan Frederick

ISBN: PB: 9780300204148, Yale University Press, July 2013
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...

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America

Rush to Gold France, the French, and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854

Rohrbough Malcolm J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181401, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many "wagons west". However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers travelled by land. The other half travelled by sea. And it's the story of this second group that interests Malcolum Rohrbough in his...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Units, No. 05 JG 2. Jagdgeschwader "Richthofen"

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878703, Casemate, Kagero, July 2013
28 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 43 archive photos, 4 painting schemes

Not for sale in Poland! The 28 page book with English text contains a chronological overview of the unit's activities, which is supplemented with 43 photos, tables of unit commanders and planes used, as well as colour profiles of 4 aircraft. A bri...

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Europe

Children and War Volume 1: Past and Present

Embacher Helga, Prontera Grazia

ISBN: PB: 9781911096719, ISBN: HB: 9781909384477, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2013
298 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Asia

Islanded Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

Sivasundaram Sujit

ISBN: HB: 9780226038223, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 33 halftones

How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the is...

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Gender Studies

America

Meet Joe Copper Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front

Basso Matthew L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044194, ISBN: HB: 9780226038865, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun". So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, field...

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Aviation

Women Studies

Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War

Milanetti Gian Piero

ISBN: PB: 9788875651466, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2013
280 pp., 24x17 cm, 505 black&white illus.

A pictorial history on the contribution that Soviet airwomen brought to the II World War. The Author retraces meticulously the role that these young women played during what they called themselves the "Great patriotic War". He went several times to R...

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America

Time No Longer Americans After the American Century

Smith Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300176568, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice: b...

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Middle East

Political Science

Forgotten Palestinians A History of the Palestinians in Israel

Pappe Ilan

ISBN: PB: 9780300184327, Yale University Press, June 2013
320 pp., 23.8x16.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the d...

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