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Eltis David, Richardson David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212549, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 30.7x23.9 cm, 189 colour maps, 5 black&white illus., 61 colour graphs, 36 colour illus.

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12. 5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up...

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America

Amistad's Orphans An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

Lawrance Benjamin Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300198454, Yale University Press, March 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revis...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

Voskuhl Adelheid

ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...

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Middle East

Military

Arabs at War in Afghanistan

Hamid Mustafa, Farrall Leah

ISBN: HB: 9781849044202, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A former senior mujahidin figure and an ex-counter-terrorism analyst cooperating to write a book on the history and legacy of Arab-Afghan fighters in Afghanistan is a remarkable and improbable undertaking. Yet this is what Must...

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Africa

The Africa List

Accounts and Drawings from Underground The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906

Kentridge William, Morris Rosalind C.

ISBN: HB: 9780857422057, Seagull Books, February 2015
196 pp., 27.9x20.8 cm, 61 colour plates

Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. In "Accounts and Drawings from Underground", Kentridge and Rosali...

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Europe

Artists Under Hitler Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Petropoulos Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197471, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime? Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Auschwitz and After

Delbo Charlotte, Lamont Rosette C., Langer Lawrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...

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America

Jewish Studies

American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader

Phillip Zola Gary, Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781611685107, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2014
478 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials...

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Middle East

Islam

Advice for the Sultan Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam

Yavari Neguin

ISBN: HB: 9781849042604, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In "Advice for the Sultan" Neguin Yavari excavates multiple, conflicting strands of Islamic political thought from the medieval past to the present, reassessing these ideas and their impact over the longue duree. Her aim is to...

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Middle East

Current Affairs

Among the Ruins Syria Past and Present

Sahner Christian C.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044004, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. "Among the Ruins" blends history, memoir and repo...

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