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Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2015

New titles in History


Intellectuals and the search for national identity in twentieth-century Brazil by Ronald H. Chilcote


Vicksburg and Chatanooga: the battles that doomed the Confederacy by Jack H. Lepa


The United States and the Armed Forces of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, 2000/2014 by Rene de la Pedraja


El Proyecto Macnamara: the Maverick Irish priest and the race to seize California 1844-1846 by John Fox


The global republic: America's inadvertent rise to world power by Frank Ninkovich


Israel since the Six-Day War: tears of joy, tears of sorrow by Leslie Stein


Brazilian propaganda: legitimizing an authoritarian regime by Nina Schneider


A press divided: newspaper coverage of the Civil war by David B. Sachsman, editor

Serving the Amish: a cultural guide for professionals by James A. Cates


Obsidian reflections: symbolic dimensions of obsidian in Mesoamerica edited by Marc N. Levine and others

Monday, October 27, 2014

New titles in History


Jerusalem: conflict and cooperation in a contested city edited by Madelaine Adelman and others

Israel and the Arab turmoil by Itamar Rabinovich

The world of the John Birch society: conspiracy, conservatism and the Cold War by D.J. Mulloy


The struggle of major powers over Syria by Jamil Wakim


England and its rulers, 1066-1307 by M.T. Clanchy

In search of Agamemmon: early travellers to Mycenae by Dudley Moore


The Incas by Terence N. D'Altroy


China-India relations: review and analysis edited by Ye Hailin

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

New titles in History


Dam projects and the growth of American archaeology: the River Basin Survey and the Interagency Arheological Salvage Program edited by Kimball M. Banks and others


Peruvian archaeology: a critical history by Henry Tantalean


The dawn of Canada's century: hidden histories edited by Gordon Darroch

Talking to the dead: religion, music and lived memory among Gullah-Geechee women by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant


First among unequals: the premier, politics and policy in Newfoundland and Labrador edited by Alex Marland and others


Monday, September 22, 2014

New titles in History


The race for paradise: an Islamic history of the Crusades by Paul M. Cobb


Project 9: the birth of the air commandos in World War II by Dennis R. Okerstrom


Hillary Clinton in the news: gender and authenticity in American politics by Shawn J. Perry-Giles

Dangerous friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Kennedy brothers by Ben Kamin

1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created
    Mann, Charles C.

Monday, July 21, 2014

New titles in History


Building nations from diversity: Canadian and American experience compared by Garth Stevenson


A world of paper: Louix XIV, Colbert de Torcy and the rise of the information state by John C. Rule and Ben S. Trotter


General David S. Stanley, USA: a Civil War biography by Dennis W. Belcher


America writes its history, 1650-1850: the formation of a national narrative by Jude M. Pfister


Philadelphia quakers and the antislavery movement by Brian Temple

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

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The hour of peril: the secret plot to murder Lincoln before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower


The Indian Army on the Western Front: India's Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium in the First World War by George Morton-Jack


Death from the skies: how the British and Germans survived bombing in World War II by Dietmar Suss


Goodbye to all that? : the story of Europe since 1945 by Dan Stone


The Great War for peace by William Mulligan


One land, two states: Israel and Palestine as parallel states by Mark Levine and others


Monday, May 19, 2014

New titles in History


The final crisis in the Stuart monarchy: the revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European contexts edited by Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor


Choosing terror: virtue, friendship, and authenticity in the French Revolution by Marisa Linton


Genius, power and magic: a cultural history of Germany from Goethe to Wagner by Roderick Cavaliero

To forget it all and begin anew: reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954 by Steven M. Schroeder

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

New titles in History


Sacrificing families: navigating laws, labor and love across borders by Leisy J. Abrego


Exile and revolution: Jose D. Poyo, Key West and Cuban independence by Gerald E. Poyo


A late encounter with the Civil War by Michael Kreyling

Hitler's furies : German women in the Nazi killing fields by Wendy Lower
  
The Oxford handbook of the Cold War by Richard H. Immerman

Monday, April 21, 2014

New titles in History


Verdun: the longest battle of the Great War by Paul Jankowski


Emily D. West and the Yellow Rose of Texas myth by Phillip Thomas Tucker


It takes more than a network: the Iraqi insurgency and organizational adaptation by Chad C. Serena

The yellowhammer war: the Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama edited by Kenneth W. Noe

Monday, March 10, 2014

New titles in History


The IRA: The Irish Republican Army by James Dingley


The social world of intellectuals in the Roman Empire: sophists, philosophers and Christians by Kendra Eshelman


Return to Putin's Russia: past imperfect, future uncertain edited by Stephen K. Wegren


Georgia: a political history since independence by Stephen Jones


The right to self-determination in the South Caucasus: Nagorno Karabakh


Israel and the Cold War: diplomacy, strategy and the policy of the periphery at the United Nations by Howard A. Patten


Qatar: politics and the challenges of development by Matthew Gray


Evolving Iran: an introduction to politics and problems in the Islamic republic by Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan


Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror by Barnett R. Rubin


Development and challenges confronting Pakistan edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak



Wednesday, January 8, 2014

New titles in History


The Confederate surrender at Greensboro: the final days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865 by Robert M. Dunkerly


The Appomattox generals: the parallel lives of Joshua L. Chamerlain, USA and John B. Gordon, CSA, commanders at the surrender ceremony of April 12, 1865 by John W. Primomo


My life before the World War, 1860-1917: a memoir by John J. Pershing


Taking on Iran : : strength, diplomacy, and the Iranian threat by Abraham D. Sofaer


Arabs of the Ottoman Empire: 1516-1918 [electronic resource] : a social and cultural history by Bruce Alan  Masters

Religion and state in Syria [electronic resource] : the Sunni ulema under the Ba'th by Thomas   Pierret


Iraq in wartime [electronic resource] : soldiering, martyrdom, and remembrance by Dina Rizk Khoury


Armies of  Empire : the 9th Australian and 50th British divisions in battle, 1939-1945 by Allan  Converse

100 amazing tales from Aotearoa  (New Zealand) 

The storm of war: a new history of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts


Thursday, September 12, 2013

New titles in History


Worlds of Arthur: facts and fictions of the dark ages by Guy Halsall

Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy


Wronged by empire: post-imperial ideology and foreign policy in India and China by Manjari Chatterjee Miller


Union heartland: the midwestern home front during the Civil War edited by Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson


Escaping Hitler: a Jewish haven in Chile by Eva Goldschmidt Wyman


Charles I and the aristocracy, 1625-1642 by Richard Cust

Tapestry of memory: evidence and testimony in life-story narratives by Nanci Adler and Selma Leydesdorgg, editors


Intelligence and surprise attack: failure and success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and beyond by Erik J. Dahl


London's underground spaces: representing the Victorian city, 1840-1915 by Haewon Hwang

Family and empire : the Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish realm by Yuen-Gen Liang