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Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 Harold M. Tanner
"A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China. A compelling narrative that grips one's attention from the outset and doesn't let go until the last paragraph." -Steven I. Levine, author of Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948Twentieth-Century Battles
384 pp., 10 b&w illus., 10 maps. cloth 978-0-253-01692-8 $40.00 ebook 978-0-253-01699-7 $39.99
Jaffa Shared and Shattered Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine Daniel Monterescu
"Monterescu has carved out a domain all his own in the scholarship about minorities, ethnic conflict, and inter-ethnic relations. In this great book he once again helps us see dimensions easily overlooked in much scholarship." -Saskia Sassen, author of ExpulsionsPublic Culture of the Middle East and North Africa
384 pp., 24 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-01671-3 $85.00 paper 978-0-253-01677-5 $32.00 ebook 978-0-253-01683-6 $31.99
Art and Devotion at a Buddhist Temple in the Indian Himalaya Melissa R. Kerin
Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Prize for the Indian Humanities, American Institute of Indian Studies
"A meticulous and discerning piece of scholarship, one that is skillful in employing multiple methods-visual, linguistic and ethnographic-to create a fuller picture of a region we knew little about. . . . [A] pleasure to read." -Pika Ghosh, author of Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal
264 pp., 90 b&w illus., 16 color illus. cloth 978-0-253-01306-4 $65.00 ebook 978-0-253-01309-5 $64.99
Now in paperback Oxbridge Men British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920 Paul R. Deslandes
"A very welcome book that certainly reaffirms-with new material and approaches-that the entrance of women into the world of the historical university was arguably the most revolutionary event in the long social history of a special kind of institution." -Victorian Studies
344 pp., 19 b&w illus. paper 978-0-253-01783-3 $30.00 ebook 978-0-253-11125-8 $29.99
