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Invisible Hands Self-Organization in the Eighteenth Century

Sheehan Jonathan, Wahrman Dror

ISBN: HB: 9780226752051, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems – natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others – whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteen...

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America

I Speak of the City Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Tenorio-Trillo Mauricio

ISBN: PB: 9780226273587, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 halftones

In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, "I Speak of the City" c...

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Europe

Icon Curtain The Cold War's Quiet Border

Komska Yuliya

ISBN: HB: 9780226154190, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The Iron Curtain did not exist – at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historica...

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America

General

Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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Asia

Into the Kazakh Steppe John Castle's Mission to Khan Abulkhayir (1736)

Teissier Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9781909930087, Signal Books, December 2014
208 pp., 21.8x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! The adventurer and artist John Castle, of mixed British and Prussian descent, was one of several foreigners commissioned by the Russian Empire to take part in the Orenburg Expedition which started in 1734. Its aims were to secu...

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Europe

Invention of Scotland Myth and History

Trevor-Roper Hugh

ISBN: PB: 9780300208580, Yale University Press, August 2014
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Now with a new preface to mark the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, this is a characteristically robust and controversial account of Scottish myth and history by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of Britain's greatest historians. In this work Tre...

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Military

Investment in Blood The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300205268, ISBN: HB: 9780300190625, Yale University Press, August 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost – both financial and human – of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom o...

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America

Imagining Black America

Wayne Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300197815, Yale University Press, May 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In "Imagining Black America", Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from t...

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America

Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Africa

Interlopers of Empire The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

Arsan Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781849042970, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
452 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others h...

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