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Surviving Genocide Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
ISBN: PB: 9780300255362, ISBN: HB: 9780300218121, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.
In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts...
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£20,00
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History of the Future in Colonial Mexico
ISBN: HB: 9780300233933, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O'Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of "futuremaking." While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin America have long focused on historical...
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£27,00
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Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco
ISBN: PB: 9780226592749, ISBN: HB: 9780226592602, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific", using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newf...
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£79,00
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Hubert Humphrey The Conscience of the Country
ISBN: HB: 9780300222395, Yale University Press, August 2018
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His career encompassed three well?known high points: the civ...
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£25,00
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American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975
ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....
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£34,00
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Chicago Renaissance Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
ISBN: HB: 9780300203684, Yale University Press, September 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 88 black&white illus.
This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago's cultural development from the 1893 World's Fair through mid-century, illuminating how C...
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£35,00
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Blood Runs Green The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226379999, ISBN: HB: 9780226248950, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and...
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Iconoclastic Imagination Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11
ISBN: PB: 9780226310237, ISBN: HB: 9780226310060, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings
Bloody, fiery spectacles – the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination – have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these...
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Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226629384, ISBN: HB: 9780226629377, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of G...
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History of Inclusion in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9781563683183, Gallaudet University Press, May 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with disabilities first were segregated for instruction in public schools, professionals...
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