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Endgame | |||
| Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia | History | |||
| Jennifer Siegel | ||||
| IB Tauris 2002 274 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1850433712 | ||||
| Published Price £29.50 | Sale Price £6.99 | |||
| 'The Great Game' is the name given to the late 19th century Anglo-Russian power struggle in Central Asia and the Caucasus. This study describes the period before and after 1907 when the hostility between the two powers was apparently concluded, with a rapprochement in the face of the German threat. Drawing on previously unseen Russian and British archives, Siegel shows that the 'endgame' of the Anglo-Rusian confrontation was far from cordial and the two countries remained on the brink of war, saved only by the outbreak of the First World War. | ||||
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Filming Women in the Third Reich | |||
| History | ||||
| Jo Fox | ||||
| Berg 2000 268 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1859733964 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £8.99 | |||
| In 1936, Goebbels stated that 'a government that controls art will remain for ever', and the German film industry became inextricably linked with National Socialist propaganda. This book is an historical evaluation of the role and image of women in the feature films of the Third Reich. Fox challenges current perceptions of the National Socialist position with regard to women and examines the creation of a female film culture, as well as the 'blurring' of gender distinctions as a result of the war. | ||||
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Power Relations in Nigeria | |||
| Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors | History | |||
| Ann O'Hear | ||||
| Rochester University Press 1997 338 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1878822861 | ||||
| Published Price £40.00 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| This is the first study of slavery and its legacy in the Yoruba and incompletely Islamicised periphery of the Sokoto caliphate and of northern Nigeria. It shows the decline of slavery and the emergence of a small-scale peasantry at the end of the nineteenth century, and takes the story into the late-colonial and post-independence periods. Focusing on Ilorin, the city and emirate on the southern fringe of the caliphate, now in Nigeria, it shows how relations between the city elite and the ex-slaves and peasants they controlled have fluctuated during the long process of oppression and reaction. | ||||
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Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Instituions | |||
| The Founding Year | History | |||
| Joshua Bernard Forrest | ||||
| Rochester University Press 1998 408 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1580460283 | ||||
| Published Price £40.00 | Our Price £18.99 | |||
| An examination of the development of regional policy-making and organizational behavior of Namibia's regional institutions in their founding year, as they were established after independence from South Africa in 1990. | ||||
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Return to Diversity | |||
| A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II | History | |||
| Joseph Rothschild; Nancy M Wingfield | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2000 338 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0195119932 | ||||
| Published Price £18.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| This is the third edition of Rothschild's political history of East Central Europe during and since the Second World War, now with a new chapter on the post-Communist era by Nancy Wingfield covering events through the 1990s. Renowned for its depth of analysis, scope and objectivity, the study covers coalition politics, ethnic discord and issues of democratic development in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. | ||||
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City | |||
| Inside Baghdad's Green Zone | History | |||
| Rajiv Chandrasekaran | ||||
| Bloomsbury 2007 356 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0747591687 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| This is a prize-wining expose of the attempt by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority to rule Iraq from a walled-off enclave in central Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. It describes the ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in the war-torn Middle East, from the risky disbanding of the Iraqi army to such travesties as the man put in charge of revitalizing Baghdad's stock exchange - a 24-year-old who had never worked in finance. | ||||
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The Kings Depart | |||
| The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution | History | |||
| Richard M Watt | ||||
| Phoenix 2003 606 pages | ||||
| Paperback 184212658X | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £9.99 | |||
| Richard M Watt tells the story of the 1918 Versailles Conference, its failure to achieve the just and lasting peace that was within its grasp, and the dire consequences over the subsequent 50 years | ||||
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Sons of the Conquerors | |||
| The Rise of the Turkic World | History | |||
| Hugh Pope | ||||
| Duckworth 2005 416 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0715636057 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Turkish Republic by Ataturk, Turkey has become prominent in international affairs. Written by a journalist based in Istanbul, this much acclaimed book describes how Turkic-speaking peoples have spread far beyond the boundaries of Turkey itself, from China to the USA. Rather than geographically, the book is arranged to reflect the collective qualities of Turkic people, from their military vocation to their pragmatic experience of Islam. | ||||
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Eve Balfour | |||
| The Founder of the Soil Association and Voice of the Organic Movement | History | |||
| Michael Brander | ||||
| Gleneil 2003 238 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0952533057 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Lady Eve Balfour (1898-1990) was one of the first women to graduate in agriculture (at Reading University), and her first job was as manager of a war effort farm in Wales in 1918. She later bought New Bells, Haughley, in Suffolk, and soon began to question agricultural methods. The Haughley Research Farms, The Living Soil (1943) and the founding of the Soil Association followed - the dominant concerns in a life that included jazz bands, writing thrillers, yatching, flying and fighting the 'Tithe Wars'. | ||||
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Reporting the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5 | |||
| Lionel James's First Wireless Transmissions to The Times | History | |||
| Peter Slattery | ||||
| Global Oriental 2004 144 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1901903575 | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Sale Price £16.99 | |||
| During the Russo-Japanese War, the Times correspondent Lionel James made war-reporting history by gaining access to the conflict zone of the war at sea and reporting by wireless from a specially chartered ship, the Haimun. From Times records and other sources, Slattery has pieced together the details of this remarkable and very dangerous exploit, including the story of how the 180-foot timber wireless mast was built on the British-leased, treeless promontory of Weihaiwei on the China coast. | ||||
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Comrade Pavlik | |||
| The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero | History | |||
| Catriona Kelly | ||||
| Granta 2005 352 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1862077479 | ||||
| Published Price £17.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| In September 1932, young Pavlik Morozov's body was found in a Serbian forest, and the legend of the boy martyr who was murdered because he had informed on his father's anti-Soviet activities was born. The story was shamelessly exploited by Stalin's regime, and Comrade Pavlik rapidly took on iconic status. In this brilliant blend of historical and cultural analysis, Catriona Kelly uses previously inaccessible secret archives to unpick this multi-layered myth of a revolutionary boy hero. | ||||
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Tractor in the Pasture | |||
| Rusting Icons of Rural America | History | |||
| Lee Klancher | ||||
| Motorbooks 2003 128 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0760308764 | ||||
| Published Price £13.99 | Sale Price £7.99 | |||
| Taken together, the author's short essays, powerful quotes from some of the great writers from our time, and scenic photography from around the world capture the fading days of America's rural landscape. In particular, 140 images of forgotten tractors are a symbol of a time of change in rural America. | ||||
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The Rebellious Slave | |||
| Nat Turner in American Memory | History | |||
| Scot French | ||||
| Houghton Mifflin 2004 379 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0618104488 | ||||
| Published Price $26.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| The Nat Turner Rebellion in Virginia, 1831, was the bloodiest slave uprising in American history. Described at the time as a 'fanatic preacher' and rebel leader, Nat Turner was caught, tried and executed. This study places the contested history and enduring memory of the Rebellion within the broader context of the black freedom struggle. Examining literature ranging from the so-called Confessions of Nat Turner (published in 1831) to William Styron's 1967 novel of the same name, French charts the evolving image of Nat Turner, the rebellious slave, as an American icon. | ||||
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Romantics at War | |||
| Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism | History | |||
| George P Fletcher | ||||
| Princeton University Press 2002 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0691006512 | ||||
| Published Price £19.95 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| The war on terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice... These phrases are commonplace now, but we rarely stop to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of war and the demands of justice. In this book, George Fletcher, a leading American legal thinker, brings much needed clarity to the debates on how to pursue war and justice in the age of terrorism and combines insights from history, philosophy, literature and law to place these debates in cultural context. | ||||
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Churchill and the Great Republic | |||
| History | ||||
| Martin Gilbert; Allen Packwood; Daun van Ee | ||||
| Giles 2004 96 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1904832008 | ||||
| Published Price £12.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| An account of Churchill's relationship with the USA, reflecting in his own words his lasting admiration for the land, people and institutions of the country focusing on his efforts to gain US support for Britain in the early years of WWII. | ||||
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