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Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
ISBN: HB: 9781649590183, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
760 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 colour plates, 5 halftones, 9 figures
This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Orm...
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£93,00
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Last Shah America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
ISBN: HB: 9780300217797, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on...
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£25,00
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Last Slave Ships New York and the End of the Middle Passage
ISBN: HB: 9780300247336, Yale University Press, January 2021
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 21 black&white illus.
Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the A...
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£25,00
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Lines of Thought Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind
ISBN: HB: 9780226743080, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables
We think with objects – we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think wi...
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£36,00
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Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables
History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...
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£21,00
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£76,00
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Lakota America A New History of Indigenous Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300255256, ISBN: HB: 9780300215953, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty?first century. Pekka Hنmنlنinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter?gatherers and reveals how the...
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£16,99
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£25,00
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Lost Black Scholar Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780226754437, ISBN: HB: 9780226534886, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Allison Davis (1902-1983), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America's...
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£24,00
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£34,00
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Last Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300217803, Yale University Press, September 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did – in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that inf...
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Late Stalinism The Aesthetics of Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300198478, Yale University Press, August 2020
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Russia! In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period – beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953 – Evgeny Dobrenk...
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£45,00
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Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State
ISBN: PB: 9780226711485, ISBN: HB: 9780226711348, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings
Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. Wh...
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£32,00
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£96,00
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