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...The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State, by Lisa McGirr, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.95 McGirr’s ambitious, energetic history casts the 1920-33 Prohibition era in a new light, going...
...The Habsburg Empire: A New History, by Pieter Judson, Harvard University Press, RRP£25/$35 This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates...
...With additional reporting by Shahien Nasiripour in Washington, Lisa Pollack in London and Cardiff Garcia in New York....
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