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Revolutionary History of Interwar India Violence, Image, Voice and Text

Maclean Kama

ISBN: PB: 9781849043328, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), "A Revolutionary History" delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed by Chandrashekhar Azad and...

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Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer

Pritchett Wendell E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214016, ISBN: HB: 9780226684482, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advoc...

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Ancient World

Roman in the Provinces Art on the Periphery of Empire

Hoffman Gail L.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850225, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, August 2014
300 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 colour plates, 125 halftones

This beautifully illustrated volume presents new ways of thinking about the concept of "being Roman" – with a particular emphasis on the way people in the provinces and on the periphery of the empire reacted to the state of being a Roman subject. Acc...

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Restless Valley Revolution, Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia

Shishkin Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780300205916, Yale University Press, July 2014
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

It sounds like the stuff of a fiction thriller: two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling highway, brazen corruption schemes, contract hits, and larger-than-life characters who may be villains... or heroes... or...

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Robert Morris's Folly The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder

Smith Ryan K.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196047, Yale University Press, July 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

In 1798 Robert Morris – 'financier of the American Revolution', confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator – plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the Unit...

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Religion in China and Its Modern Fate

Katz Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9781611685435, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites t...

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Remapping India New States and their Political Origins

Tillin Louise

ISBN: PB: 9781849042291, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! There is a widespread consensus today that the constitutional flexibility to alter state boundaries has bolstered the stability of India's democracy. Yet debates persist about whether the creation of more states is desirable. P...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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Rush to Gold France, the French, and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854

Rohrbough Malcolm J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181401, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many "wagons west". However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers travelled by land. The other half travelled by sea. And it's the story of this second group that interests Malcolum Rohrbough in his...

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Riches, Rivals and Radicals 100 Years of Museums in America

Schwarzer Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781933253756, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, March 2013
263 pp., 29.2x23 cm, 200 colour illus.

Highly illustrated, exhaustively researched, and eminently readable, this new edition of "Riches, Rivals and Radicals" describes the rise of the museum in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present – a story that parallels hist...

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