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America
Puritan Origins of the American Self
Bercovitch Sacvan
ISBN: PB: 9780300172416, Yale University Press, April 2011
260 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, this title explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context.
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Middle East
Pakistan Beyond the "Crisis State"
Lodhi Maleeha
ISBN: PB: 9781849041355, ISBN: HB: 9781849041348, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Seen through the lens of the outsider, Pakistan has often been reduced to a caricature. Its diversity and resilience have rarely figured in the single-issue focus of recent literature on the country, be it journalistic or schol...
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Middle East
Pashas Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World
Mather James
ISBN: PB: 9780300170917, Yale University Press, March 2011
320 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travellers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluri...
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Europe
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Political Epistemics The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
Glaeser Andreas
ISBN: PB: 9780226297941, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
640 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 17 line illus.
What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution...
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Middle East
Palestine Betrayed
Karsh Efraim
ISBN: PB: 9780300172348, Yale University Press, February 2011
336 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shatte...
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America
Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present
Clemens Elisabeth S., Guthrie Doug
ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.
Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...
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Peter's War A New England Slave Boy and the American Revoultion
Malcolm Joyce Lee
ISBN: PB: 9780300168068, ISBN: HB: 9780300119305, Yale University Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 4 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.
A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the rev...
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Middle East
Persian Gulf and Pacific Asia From Indifference to Interdependence
Davidson Christopher M.
ISBN: HB: 9781849040990, Hurst Publishers, November 2010
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A plethora of economic, diplomatic, cultural, and other highly pragmatic linkages are making the 'Asianisation' of Asia a reality. Davidson, demonstrates in this book how the powerful connections that are being forged by the ve...
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Persians Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran
Katouzian Homa
ISBN: PB: 9780300169324, Yale University Press, October 2010
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons – for its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East – but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than...
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Prague Palimpsest Writing, Memory, and the City
Thomas Alfred
ISBN: HB: 9780226795409, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly...
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