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Asia
In the Dragon's Shadow Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
Strangio Sebastian
ISBN: HB: 9780300234039, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow of its influence: economi...
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Peppermint Kings A Rural American History
Allosso Dan
ISBN: HB: 9780300236828, Yale University Press, August 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
This unconventional history relates the engaging and unusual stories of three families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose involvement in the peppermint oil industry provides insights into the perspectives and concerns of rural...
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From Old Regime to Industrial State A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I
Tilly Richard H., Kopsidis Michael
ISBN: HB: 9780226725437, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 23 line drawings, 66 tables
In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead co...
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America
States of Exception in American History
Gerstle Gary, Isaac Joel
ISBN: PB: 9780226712321, ISBN: HB: 9780226712291, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
"States of Exception in American History" brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the p...
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After Redlining The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation
Marchiel Rebecca K.
ISBN: HB: 9780226723648, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding an...
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Middle East
Unfinished Arab Spring Micro-Dynamics of Revolts between Change and Continuity
El Issawi Fatima, Cavatorta Francesco
ISBN: HB: 9781909942486, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, August 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The aim of this volume is to adopt an original analytical approach in explaining various dynamics at work behind the Arab Spring, through giving voice to local dynamics and legacies rather than concentrating on debates about paradigms. It highlights...
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World Is Always Coming to an End Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Rotella Carlo
ISBN: PB: 9780226759616, ISBN: HB: 9780226624037, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 map
An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day – and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people – the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it c...
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Year of Peril America in 1942
Campbell Tracy
ISBN: HB: 9780300233780, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.
The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on th...
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Military
War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II
Mawdsley Evan
ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures
Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...
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Mussolini and Hitler The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
Goeschel Christian
ISBN: PB: 9780300254730, ISBN: HB: 9780300178838, Yale University Press, July 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has und...
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