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  • A WORLD OF EMPIRES
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    A WORLD OF EMPIRES
    EDYTA M. BOJANOWSKA
    Through the lens of a classic Russian travelogue, this historical study examines early globalization and Russia’s participation in the Imperial race. In the 1850s, American Commodore Matthew Perry embarked on a legendary expedition to open trade relations with Japan. Less well known is the Russian expedition that followed on his heels. Serving aboard the Russian Frigate Pallada...

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  • LANDSCAPES OF THE METROPOLIS OF DEATH
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    LANDSCAPES OF THE METROPOLIS OF DEATH
    OTTO DOV KULKA
    A Jewish history professor offers his personal account of the Holocaust, while depicting what he’s gone through to understand this moment in his past. Historian Otto Dov Kulka has dedicated his life to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust. Until now he has always set to one side his personal experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, K...

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  • PRESIDENTS AND THEIR GENERALS
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    PRESIDENTS AND THEIR GENERALS
    MATTHEW MOTEN
    A military historian traces the long struggle of American presidents to assert their power over uncooperative generals. Since World War II, the United States has been engaged in near-constant military conflict abroad, often with ill-defined objectives, ineffectual strategy, and uncertain benefits. In this era of limited congressional oversight and “wars of choice,” the executiv...

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  • THE PRIME OF LIFE
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    THE PRIME OF LIFE
    STEVEN MINTZ
    “By drawing on 400 years of social and economic history . . . [the book] presents a thoughtful and thorough guide through the life stages.” (Library Journal)   Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and establish full-time careers, occupying a prolonged period in which they are no longer adolescen...

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  • SOLDIER OF CHRIST
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    SOLDIER OF CHRIST
    ROBERT A. VENTRESCA
    “This well-crafted biography” presents “a balanced, but not uncritical, examination of the life of a controversial pope” (Library Journal). Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII are so heated they are known as the “Pius wars.” Soldier of Christ focuses instead on Eugenio Pacelli, the flawed yet gifted man himself. While offering insight into the pope’s response to Nazism, Ro...

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  • ONE ANOTHER'S EQUALS
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    ONE ANOTHER'S EQUALS
    JEREMY WALDRON
    This enlightening inquiry into the nature of human equality reveals the vital importance of this basic Western principle—“an important new book” (Robert B. Reich, New York Times Book Review). An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another’s equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. In...

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  • PARK CHUNG HEE AND MODERN KOREA
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    PARK CHUNG HEE AND MODERN KOREA
    CARTER J. ECKERT
    This first volume in a two-part study examines the origins of South Korean authoritarianism as personified by the militant political leader. For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that deepened as prosperity spread. In this masterly account, Car...

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  • BOSTON'S MASSACRE
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    BOSTON'S MASSACRE
    ERIC HINDERAKER
    An in-depth history of the pivotal event in Colonial America, as well as its causes, competing narratives, and evolving memories. On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston’s Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one...

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  • MOSES MONTEFIORE
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    MOSES MONTEFIORE
    ABIGAIL GREEN
    “A rich gift to history—and not just Jewish history—for its account not just of what Moses Montefiore did or did not do, but also of what he was.” —New Republic Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century. His story, told here in full for the fi...

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  • FLAUBERT
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    FLAUBERT
    MICHEL WINOCK
    A “well-researched, elegantly written” study of the life and work of 19th-century French author Gustave Flaubert (Roger Pearson, University of Oxford). Michel Winock’s biography situates Gustave Flaubert’s life and work in France’s century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected t...

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  • THE DREAM OF THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
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    THE DREAM OF THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
    LAWRENCE BUELL
    “Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes.” —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly Review The idea of “the great American novel” continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss...

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  • SASHA AND EMMA
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    SASHA AND EMMA
    PAUL AVRICH / KAREN AVRICH
    This “lively” dual biography is “an enormously rich book, offering an absorbing portrait of the world of anarchists in turn-of-the-century America” (The New York Times Book Review). In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast friends, fleeting lovers, and ...

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