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Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City
ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables
Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...
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£28,00
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Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918
ISBN: PB: 9780226756363, ISBN: HB: 9780226756226, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 10 tables
Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. But, as Reconstruction came to an end and legal and social discrimination against African Americans became widespread, civil rights...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Deconstruction An American Institution
ISBN: PB: 9780226536057, ISBN: HB: 9780226535869, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that h...
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£26,00
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£76,00
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They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
ISBN: PB: 9780300251838, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave?...
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£14,99
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Browning of the New South
ISBN: PB: 9780226600987, ISBN: HB: 9780226600840, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 table
Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlement mean that these studies no longer paint the whole picture. Many Latino newcomers are flocking to pl...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States
ISBN: PB: 9780300240214, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle...
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£12,99
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Indian Army in the First World War New Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781911512783, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 illus., 2 maps
The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians. It looks at the hist...
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£35,00
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Ties That Bound Founding First Ladies and Slaves
ISBN: HB: 9780226147550, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Moun...
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£26,50
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Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help
ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables
More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...
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£19,00
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It Ends Here The Last Missouri Vigilante
ISBN: PB: 9781883982850, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 2 maps
In early January 1904, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Oklahoma City to meet with a washed-up relic of the "Wild West: Edward Capehart O'Kelley". On the dusty streets of the former Indian Territory, O'Kelley struggled to stay...
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£19,00
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