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America

Beyond Redemption Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War

Emberton Carole

ISBN: PB: 9780226269993, ISBN: HB: 9780226024271, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worke...

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Asia

Battles of the New Republic A Contemporary History of Nepal

Jha Prashant

ISBN: PB: 9781849044592, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Battles of The New Republic" tells the story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Simultaneously historical analy...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Babel in Zion Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948

Halperin Liora R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197488, Yale University Press, December 2014
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the l...

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America

Between Mao and McCarthy Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years

Brooks Charlotte

ISBN: HB: 9780226193564, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco...

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Europe

Between History and Myth Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: HB: 9780226140926, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 12 line drawings, 29 tables

All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt t...

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Europe

Belgium Long United, Long Divided

Humes Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9781849041461, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This concise history describes the traditions and transitions that over two thousand years have developed in Belgium a sense of shared identity, common government, and a centralised nation-state – and then over a few recent dec...

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Middle East

Beyond the Arab Spring The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: PB: 9781849043472, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unravelling of the dominant 'ruling bargain' that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. This is being replaced by a new and inchoate system that redefines sources of aut...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 3: The Documentary Companion, Tables, Orders and Reports Prepared by Participating Red Army Forces

Glantz David M.

ISBN: HB: 9781909982116, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2014
568 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 maps

Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key Fuhrer Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campa...

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America

Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Fernandez Lilia

ISBN: PB: 9780226212845, ISBN: HB: 9780226244259, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 maps, 13 tables, 18 halftones

Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s an...

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Military

Blood Telegram Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide

Bass Gary J.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044578, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
548 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Blood Telegram" is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results...

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