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On the Spirit of Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226794303, ISBN: HB: 9780226588988, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
334 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 tables
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such mea...
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On The Ho Chi Minh Trail A Journey through Vietnam and Laos
ISBN: HB: 9781916346307, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 colour images, 12 maps
Part travelogue, part history, and part reflective meditation on conflict and reconciliation, Sherry Buchanan's new book offers both a personal and historical exploration of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, highlighting the critical role the Trail and the  you...
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Origins of the Dual City Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226661582, ISBN: HB: 9780226661445, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a "dual city", a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel...
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£79,00
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Our Beloved Kin A New History of King Philip's War
ISBN: PB: 9780300244328, Yale University Press, April 2019
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wam...
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Our Latest Longest War Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
ISBN: PB: 9780226598567, ISBN: HB: 9780226265650, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. Amer...
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Oxford Freemasons A Social History of Apollo University Lodge
ISBN: HB: 9781851244676, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
240 pp., 27.8x22.6 cm, 74 colour illus.
Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo – the Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole,...
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Origins of Cool in Postwar America
ISBN: PB: 9780226599069, ISBN: HB: 9780226152653, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
"Cool".  It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture.  "The Origins of Cool in Postwar America" uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came...
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Operation Kinetic Stabilizing Kosovo
ISBN: HB: 9781612349640, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2018
512 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm
Foreword by Sir Mike Jackson, KFOR commander and later Chief of the General Staff in the UK A detailed history of an overlooked and largely forgotten, yet highly successful, operation in the Balkans during the 1990s Yugoslav conflict Includes intervi...
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Opening the Black Box The Turkish Military Before and After July 2016
ISBN: HB: 9781912390151, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 illus.
As any other modern militaries of the world, Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) is a complex organization relying on human force and other resources provided by society, being strictly founded on both an institutional setting and a framework of values, norms...
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One Hot Summer Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
ISBN: PB: 9780300238662, Yale University Press, July 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
<p>While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhist...
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