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Modelling - Military Drawings

U.S. Forces In Vietnam 1962-1967

Rousseaux Guillaume

ISBN: PB: 9782352502524, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2013
68 pp., 24x20 cm, illustrated throughout

This publication covers the chronological evolution of uniforms, equipment and weaponry issued to the American soldier during the first years of the conflict, from 1962 to 1967 (a second volume will cover the 1968 to 1975 period). All of the uniforms...

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Asia

Unmaking North and South Cartographies of the Yemeni Past

Willis John M.

ISBN: PB: 9781850659815, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Unmaking North and South" revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction of Yemen's north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader context of imperial rule, state formation, an...

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Middle East

Untold Story of People of Azad Kashmir

Snedden Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781849041508, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Azad (Free) Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is that part of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan, separated by a Line of Control from Indian territory. This book is a rarity: it offers a fresh interpretive history of the largely forgotten four...

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Gender Studies

Asia

Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Soneji Davesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.

"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...

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Military

America

Unwarranted Influence Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex

Ledbetter James

ISBN: PB: 9780300177626, Yale University Press, October 2011
280 pp., 21x14 cm

In "Dwight" D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex", a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World...

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America

Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes

Gonzalez Olga M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226302713, ISBN: HB: 9780226302706, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
344 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 4 maps, 1 table, 31 colour illus.

The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly esc...

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Europe

Unfinished Revolution Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central Eastern Europe

Mark James

ISBN: HB: 9780300167160, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.8x16.2 cm, 12 black&white illus.

While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people's revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new dem...

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Asia

Understanding Bangladesh

Ali S. Mahmud

ISBN: PB: 9781850659983, ISBN: HB: 9781850659976, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation with a population of some 154 million people, receives little notice in the West, other than when political upheaval or natural disasters bring it to our attention. In "Understanding Banglad...

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America

Unsettling History Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

Jobs Sebastian, Ludtke Alf

ISBN: PB: 9783593388182, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2010
253 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. With "Unsettling History", a group of historians extend that challenge to two central compon...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Utopia or Auschwitz Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust

Kundnani Hans

ISBN: PB: 9781849040242, ISBN: HB: 9781849040211, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts elsewhere around the world. The young Germans who became known as the 1968 generati...

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