Dark Path
The Structure of War and the Rise of the West
ISBN: HB: 9780300270686,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world.
Heraclitus wrote that "war is the father of all", and it has formed much of the modern world. Although the fundamental nat...
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£30.00
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Memory of '76
The Revolution in American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300270877,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
368 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries.
Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolut...
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£30.00
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Battleground Ukraine
From Independence to the War with Russia
ISBN: HB: 9780300269468,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion.
In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 202...
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£20.00
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Interbellum Constitution
Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
ISBN: HB: 9780300223217,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
576 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
576 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A synthesis of legal, political, and social history to show how the post-founding generations were forced to rethink and substantially revise the U.S. constitutional vision.
Between 1815 and 1861, American constitutional law and politics underwent...
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£35.00
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Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba
ISBN: HB: 9780300267945,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined.
In the decades before the Cuban wars of independence, white elites exploited the island's n...
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£50.00
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Nelson's Pathfinders
A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Seapower
ISBN: HB: 9780300273762,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 41 black&white illus., 12 maps
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 41 black&white illus., 12 maps
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£25.00
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My Egypt Archive
ISBN: PB: 9780300276800,
ISBN: HB: 9780300260991,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
180 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
180 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt.
An unmatched contemporary history of authoritarian politics and an unflinching examination of the politics of h...
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£15.99
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£20.00
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Fall
The Last Days of the English Republic
ISBN: HB: 9780300211498,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
464 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 black&white illus.
464 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 black&white illus.
Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail?
Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies o...
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£35.00
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Spycraft
Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
ISBN: HB: 9780300267549,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 map
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 map
A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies – from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination.
Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspira...
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£20.00
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How to Lose a War
The Story of America's Intervention in Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9780300266245,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 1 map
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 1 map
An incisive, authoritative account of the West's failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul.
In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as "unconquerable". On 15th August 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention,...
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£18.99
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