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History

American Sunshine Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Freund Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226262819, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25x22 cm, 29 halftones

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these...

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Asia

America

Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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America

Made in America A Social History of American Culture and Character

Fischer Claude S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226251448, ISBN: HB: 9780226251431, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
528 pp., 23x15 cm

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People". But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radical...

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America

When London was Capital of America

Flavell Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780300178135, Yale University Press, August 2011
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Geor...

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America

Political Science

In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

Fellman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300168020, Yale University Press, January 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 9 black&white illus.

With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he belie...

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America

Fruitlands The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

Francis Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300140415, Yale University Press, November 2010
336 pp., 23.1x16.5 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of...

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America

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Freund David M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262765, ISBN: HB: 9780226262758, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
526 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line illus.

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial...

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