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Culture Studies

In the Watches of the Night Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

Baldwin Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226269542, ISBN: HB: 9780226036021, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,...

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Biography & Memoires

George I. Sanchez The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

Blanton Carlos Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300190328, Yale University Press, March 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the ea...

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Between Mao and McCarthy Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years

Brooks Charlotte

ISBN: HB: 9780226193564, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco...

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Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston

Barr Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226156460, ISBN: HB: 9780226156323, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School,...

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Political Science

Terror Courts America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Bravin Jess

ISBN: PB: 9780300205596, ISBN: HB: 9780300189209, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...

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Outside the Gates of Eden The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Bacon Hales Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226313153, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
496 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 halftones

Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through "Outside the Gates of Eden", Peter Bacon Hales's ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic ag...

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Sacred Relics Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America

Barnett Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9780226059600, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past – often called "association items" – may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued b...

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Home Front Daily Life in the Civil War North

Brownlee Peter John, Burns Sarah, Dillon Diane, Greene Daniel, Manning Stevens Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226061856, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 90 colour plates

More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as...

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In Irons Britains Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy

Buel Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300204988, Yale University Press, August 2013
412 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be "in irons". In this groundbreaking examination of America's Revolutionary War economy, the phrase is an apt metaphor for the inability of that economy to free itself from the...

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Gender Studies

America

Meet Joe Copper Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front

Basso Matthew L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044194, ISBN: HB: 9780226038865, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun". So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, field...

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