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Military

Selling War A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine

Alvarez Steven J.

ISBN: HB: 9781612347721, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2016
384 pp., 23x15 cm

In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush's famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier di...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Extraterritorial Dreams European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century

Abrevaya Stein Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226368221, ISBN: HB: 9780226368191, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied by a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can travel, "Extraterritorial Dreams" explores the history...

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America

General

Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities

Nightingale Carl H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...

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Military

Long Watch War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka

Galappatti Sunila

ISBN: HB: 9781849046404, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "A Long Watch" is the story of the highest-ranking prisoner detained by the Tamil Tigers during Sri Lanka's civil war, a naval officer pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea. For eight years Commodore Boyagoda lived at...

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Africa

Political Science

Guinea-Bissau Micro-State to "Narco-State"

Chabal Patrick, Green Toby

ISBN: PB: 9781849045216, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since 1998 Guinea-Bissau has suffered a series of coups which outside analysts have linked to its emergence as West Africa's first "narco-state". Yet what does this mean for the country and the nature of the state in postcoloni...

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World

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society A History, 1838-1956

Heartfield James

ISBN: HB: 9781849046336, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After West Indian slavery was abolished in 1833, the anti-slavery campaign turned to the wider world and the goal of Universal Emancipation. Veteran agitators Joseph Sturge, Lord Brougham and John Scoble launched the British an...

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Europe

General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Middle East

Impossibility of Palestine History, Geography, and the Road Ahead

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: HB: 9780300215625, Yale University Press, April 2016
312 pp., 21x14 cm

The "two-state solution" is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, international relations scholar Mehran Kamrava argues that Israel's "state-building" process has never ris...

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America

Mourning Lincoln

Hodes Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780300219753, ISBN: HB: 9780300195804, Yale University Press, April 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in new...

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Europe

Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70

Jones Polly

ISBN: PB: 9780300219777, ISBN: HB: 9780300185126, Yale University Press, April 2016
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and...

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