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Road Before Me Weeps On the Refugee Route Through Europe

Thorpe Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780300241228, Yale University Press, March 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 colour illus.

War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, S...

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Travel

Europe

Renaissance Prague

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024638577, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
190 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 129 colour plates, 15 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague's throne, the character of the city's municipalities began to transition from medieval to R...

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America

Renewal Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II

Wild Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226605234, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries' complicity wi...

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America

Political Science

Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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Literary Criticism

Africa

Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013

Wicomb Zoe, van der Vlies Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300226171, Yale University Press, January 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoe Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South...

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Europe

Republic of Letters

Fumaroli Marc, Vergnaud Lara

ISBN: HB: 9780300221602, Yale University Press, November 2018
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, De...

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Women Studies

Europe

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England

Leong Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226583662, ISBN: HB: 9780226583495, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified...

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Middle East

Revisiting the Arab Uprisings The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment

Lacroix Stephane

ISBN: PB: 9781849048873, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political transitions that occurred in the...

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Europe

Reformations The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

Eire Carlos M. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240030, Yale University Press, October 2018
920 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 155 black&white illus.

<p>A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vi...

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Europe

Robert the Bruce King of the Scots

Penman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300240313, Yale University Press, July 2018
456 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 pp. black&white illus.

Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Robert's kingship in the fi...

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