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Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300216950, Yale University Press, November 2015
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 colour illus.,14 black&white illus.

Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of t...

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Inglorious Revolution Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil

Summerhill William R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139273, Yale University Press, November 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Nineteenth-century Brazil's constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financ...

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It Ends Here The Last Missouri Vigilante

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982850, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 2 maps

In early January 1904, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Oklahoma City to meet with a washed-up relic of the "Wild West: Edward Capehart O'Kelley". On the dusty streets of the former Indian Territory, O'Kelley struggled to stay...

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Iconoclastic Imagination Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226310237, ISBN: HB: 9780226310060, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings

Bloody, fiery spectacles – the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination – have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these...

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Italian Venice A History

Bosworth R. J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216127, Yale University Press, September 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice – not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalour of the bel...

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World

I Was a Spy! The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War

McKenna Marthe

ISBN: HB: 9781910860038, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, September 2015
288 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm

"The Greatest War Story of All – Takes rank with All Quiet on the Western Front. She fulfilled in every respect the conditions which made the terrible profession of a spy dignified and honourable. Dwelling behind the German line within sound of canno...

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Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629-1786

Parez Jan, Kucharova Hedvika

ISBN: PB: 9788024626765, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
200 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 30 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I forced the Irish Franciscans into exile. Of the four continental provinces to which the Irish Franciscans fled, the Prague Franciscan...

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Isaac and Isaiah The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

Caute David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212327, ISBN: HB: 9780300192094, Yale University Press, June 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of...

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Military

Aviation

Into the Dark A Bomber Command Story of Combat and Survival, Discovery and Remembrance

Hughes Janet, Wilson Reginald

ISBN: HB: 9780992620769, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2015
208 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

On 20 January 1944 Bomber Command Navigator Reginald Wilson's Halifax, LW337, comes into the sights of an ace Luftwaffe night fighter pilot, and is blown from the darkness above the German capital Berlin. Reg, yet to celebrate his twenty-first birthd...

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Culture Studies

In the Watches of the Night Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

Baldwin Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226269542, ISBN: HB: 9780226036021, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,...

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