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Military

Bring Me Men Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire

Belkin Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9781849041775, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The masculinity of those who serve in the American military would seem to be indisputable, yet it is full of contradictions. To become a warrior, one must renounce those things in life that are perceived to be unmasculine. Yet...

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America

Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil The Epic Voyage of the SS Manhattan Through the Northwest Passage

Coen Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781602231696, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2012
215 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 25 halftones

In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Propos...

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Europe

Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal

MacKay Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780226501086, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
328 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 2 maps, 11 halftones, 2 colour illus.

On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. In one of the most...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...

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America

Black Gotham A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Peterson Carla L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181746, Yale University Press, February 2012
446 pp., 22.5x14.7 cm, 2 maps, 36 black&white illus.

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, "Black Gotham" is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbours...

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Aviation

Baptism of Fire The First Combat Experiences of the Royal Hungarian Air Force and Slovak Air Force, March 1939

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: PB: 9781906033934, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2011
136 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, 150 black&white photos, 8 colour aircraft profiles, 1 map

This story is a short but devastating episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th Century, one that is hardly known outside the countries concerned. This short conflict was hushed up even in the German media in 1939, because the...

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Ancient World

Military

Battle of Marathon

Krentz Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...

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Europe

Book in the Renaissance

Pettegree Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300178210, Yale University Press, September 2011
440 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegr...

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Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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America

Ecology

Boll Weevil Blues Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

Giesen James C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226292878, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 22x15 cm, 4 maps, 10 figures, 7 tables, 5 halftones

Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisi...

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