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White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century

Bockstoce John R., Barr William

ISBN: HB: 9780300221794, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy,...

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America

Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America

Walker Anders

ISBN: HB: 9780300223989, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like...

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America

New Abolition W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300230598, Yale University Press, March 2018
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of...

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America

Empire in Retreat The Past, Present, and Future of the United States

Bulmer-Thomas Victor

ISBN: HB: 9780300210002, Yale University Press, March 2018
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer-Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an empire. From its territorial expansion after independence, through hegemonic rule following World War II, to th...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Henry the Young King, 1155-1183

Strickland Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780300232875, Yale University Press, March 2018
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father's lifetime....

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Portrait of a Woman in Silk Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World

Anishanslin Zara

ISBN: PB: 9780300234237, Yale University Press, March 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 43 black&white illus.

Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarshi...

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Africa

Rwanda From Genocide to Precarious Peace

Thomson Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197396, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus., 5 figures, 2 maps

The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Sus...

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Europe

Evelyn Waugh's Oxford

Cooke Barbara, Dodd Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781851244874, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
192 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 65 illus.

Oxford held a special place in Evelyn Waugh's imagination. So formative were his Oxford years that the city never left him, appearing again and again in his novels in various forms. This book explores in rich visual detail the abiding importance of O...

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Military

Europe

Kursk 1943 The Greatest Battle of the Second World War

Toeppel Roman

ISBN: HB: 9781912390038, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 8 colour maps, 1 table

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was one of the greatest battles in military history involving more than 3 million soldiers, 10,000 tanks and 8,000 aircraft. While many books have been written on this allegedly most decisive battle of the Se...

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Military

Europe

Odessa 1941-44 Defense, Occupation, Resistance and Liberation

Ovcharenko Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9781912390144, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
196 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 16 black&white photos, maps

After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens' ordeal during the Second World War. In the process, he describes the heroism of the city's defenders...

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