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General

Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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Military

Ottoman Culture of Defeat The Balkan Wars and their Aftermath

Ginio Eyal

ISBN: HB: 9781849045414, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
260 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the first Balkan War broke out in October 1912, few Ottomans anticipated that it would prove to be a watershed moment for the Empire, ending in ignominy, national catastrophe, and the loss of its remaining provinces in the...

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America

History

Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

Cohen-Cole Jamie

ISBN: PB: 9780226361901, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 line drawings

"The Open Mind" chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 t...

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Military

Political Science

Orchestrating the Instruments of Power A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System

Worley Robert D.

ISBN: PB: 9781612347202, Casemate, Potomac Books, February 2016
432 pp., 23x15 cm

National security, a topic routinely discussed behind the closed doors of Washington's political scientists and policymakers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often, such highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy

Mueller Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...

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America

Other Americans in Paris Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324463, ISBN: HB: 9780226306889, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 11 line drawings

While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember th...

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Europe

Psychiatry

On Hysteria The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820

Arnaud Sabine

ISBN: HB: 9780226275543, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem – and one that, originally...

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Europe

Origins of Corporations The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages

Sicard Germain, Landry Matthew, Goetzmann William N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300156485, Yale University Press, August 2015
528 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Germain Sicard proves that Europe's first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives fr...

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Africa

Out of the Mountains The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla

Kilcullen David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045117, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where a...

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Military

Open Wounds Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide

Cheterian Vicken

ISBN: HB: 9781849044585, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, a high-profile advocate of Turkish – Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently...

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