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Oxford Past Times The Changing Face of City and County

Koenig Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781908493651, Signal Books, November 2012
288 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 70 black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! For more than ten years Chris Koenig's "Past Times" column has been a regular favourite in the Oxford Times , bringing to life unexpected and sometimes unusual aspects of the city and county's history. Ranging over Oxford and i...

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America

On Time Delivery The Dog Team Mail Carriers

Schneider William S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231672, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2012
160 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 50 halftones

From the turn of the twentieth century in interior Alaska, dog team mail carriers were charged with maintaining the trail systems and carrying the mail until they were replaced in the late 1930s and '40s by airplane mail service. With the advent and...

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Asia

America

Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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Music

Europe

Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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America

Of War and Men World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families

LaRossa Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226467436, ISBN: HB: 9780226467429, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
328 pp., 25x15 cm

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. This common but limited stereotype obscures the remarkable diversity of their experiences and those of their children. To uncover the real...

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Military

Ottomans into Europeans State and Institution-building in South Eastern Europe

Mungiu-Pippidi Alina, Meurs Wim Van

ISBN: PB: 9781849040747, ISBN: HB: 9781849040563, Hurst Publishers, June 2010
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! While many histories of the Balkans have been published, some very good and others poor, there is as yet no history of institutions in the Balkans. This is what the contributors to "Ottomans into Europeans" offer the reader: a...

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Middle East

One State, Two States Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Morris Benny

ISBN: PB: 9780300164442, Yale University Press, April 2010
256 pp., 21x14 cm

"What is so striking about Morris' work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone's prejudices, least of all his own", David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris' "1948: A History of the...

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Europe

One Must Also Be Hungarian

Biro Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780226052120, University of Chicago Press, February 2007
168 pp., 20.7x15.3 cm, 29 halftones, 1 figure

The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as "this people has already suffered for its past and its future", Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darke...

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Jewish Studies

America

Observing America's Jews

Sklare Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9781584655640, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2006
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish history.

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