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Politics of Cultural Retreat Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867

Vushko Iryna

ISBN: HB: 9780300207279, Yale University Press, August 2015
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Gal...

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Origins of Corporations The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages

Sicard Germain, Landry Matthew, Goetzmann William N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300156485, Yale University Press, August 2015
528 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Germain Sicard proves that Europe's first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives fr...

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Magna Carta Origins and Legacy

Vincent Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781851243631, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2015
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 40 colour illus.

Magna Carta is arguably the most famous document in world history. 2015 marks its 800th anniversary. Yet, until relatively recently, it was unknown how many versions of the document survive, the means by which they were distributed, or the relationsh...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Washingtons: A Family History Volume Three: Royal Descents of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212358, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2015
238 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

The Royal Descents comprises Volume Three of Dr. Justin Glenn's "The Washingtons: A Family History", a comprehensive multi-volume work covering fifteen generations of the "Presidential Branch" of the Washingtons. This study includes more than 63,000...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Japanese Aircraft Carriers Soryu and Hiryu

Skwiot Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9788364596520, Casemate, Kagero, August 2015
100 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 82 archive photos, 30 drawings, 16 colour profiles, 1 map

Not for sale in Poland! Soryu meaning "Blue (or Green) Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the mid-1930s. A sister ship, Hiryu, was intended to follow Soryu, but Hiryu's design was heavily modified and...

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Fighting 30th Division They Called Them "Roosevelt's SS"

Hilborn David, King Martin, Collins Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781612003016, Casemate, August 2015
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and George and Tennesse...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D SMS Viribus Unitis Austro-Hungarian Battleship

Wilkie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9788364596643, Casemate, Kagero, August 2015
72 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 123 renders

Not for sale in Poland! In 1907 the navy of the dualist, multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire placed an order for a new class of warships, whose design was based on the "all big gun" concept pioneered by HMS Dreadnought. Eventually four Tegetthoff...

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Power to Die Slavery and Suicide in British North America

Snyder Terri L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226280561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 table

The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they j...

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Asia

Partition The Long Shadow

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: HB: 9789383074778, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2015
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 halftones

The Partition of British India into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the further redrawing of the borders in 1971 to create Bangladesh were major, wrenching events whose effects are still felt today in the everyday lives of people in all...

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Czechs and Germans 1848-2004 The Sudeten Question and the Transformation of Central Europe

Houzvicka Vaclav

ISBN: PB: 9788024621449, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2015
450 pp., 24.1x17.5 cm, 15 halftones, 3 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Czechs and Germans 1848-2004", Vaclav Houzvicka describes the development of the Czech-German national controversies from the mid-nineteenth century through the establishing of the Cze...

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