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Africa

Maghreb Since 1800 A Short History

Vikor Knut S.

ISBN: PB: 9781849042017, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Maghreb – the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya – is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. Today the focus of popular uprisings for democracy and participation, it underwent...

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Europe

Macaulay and Son Architects of Imperial Britain

Hall Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300160239, Yale University Press, September 2012
420 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nation's sense of self, its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire and its claim to be the modern nation, marking t...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Making of Romantic Love Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE

Reddy William M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706276, ISBN: HB: 9780226706269, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm

In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a...

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Current Affairs

Mexico Democracy Interrupted

Tuckman Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780300160314, Yale University Press, July 2012
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover – after 71 years of PRI dominance – was hailed as the beginning of a ne...

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America

Culture Studies

Modernist America Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Pells Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181739, ISBN: HB: 9780300115048, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world h...

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General

Europe

Making Way for Genius The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New

Kete Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300174823, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities – Germaine de Stael, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier – Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionali...

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Anthropology

America

Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America

Safier Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226733623, ISBN: HB: 9780226733555, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 59 halftones, 20 colour illus.

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equ...

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Anthropology

America

Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones

"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...

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General

Political Science

Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf

Kamrava Mehran, Babar Zahra

ISBN: PB: 9781849042109, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies managing the...

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General

America

Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain

Peel Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...

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