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Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors Religion and the History of the CIA
ISBN: HB: 9780226767406, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), a...
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£36,00
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Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
ISBN: PB: 9780226758329, ISBN: HB: 9780226341330, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 59 halftones
At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business. Newspapers soon saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen dailies apiece....
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£24,00
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£34,00
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States of Exception in American History
ISBN: PB: 9780226712321, ISBN: HB: 9780226712291, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
"States of Exception in American History" brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the p...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780226694023, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. "Puritan" is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear...
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£40,00
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World of Trouble A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300219982, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Historian Richard Godbeer presents a richly layered and intimate account of the American Revolution as experienced by a Philadelphia Quaker couple, Elizabeth Drinker and the merchant Henry Drinker, who barely survived the unique perils that Quakers f...
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£30,00
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Troublemakers Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay
ISBN: HB: 9780226603926, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 72 colour plates, 175 halftones
What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it? "Troublemakers" fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to a decades-long struggle for justice in one American city. In di...
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£27,00
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Imagining Judeo-Christian America Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226663852, ISBN: HB: 9780226663715, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Judeo-Christian" is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Fire, Pestilence, and Death St. Louis, 1849
ISBN: PB: 9781883982935, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones
In 1849, St. Louis was little more than a frontier town, swelling under the pressure of rapid population growth, creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure, and often trapped within the confines of ignorance and prejudice. The cholera epidemic...
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£16,00
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Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs
ISBN: HB: 9780226647487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...
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£27,00
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Maroon Nation A History of Revolutionary Haiti
ISBN: HB: 9780300230086, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country's early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent H...
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£30,00
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