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Atlas of Boston History

Seasholes Nancy S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226631158, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 35.5x27.9 cm, 57 colour plates

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural ca...

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Anthropology

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Afterlives of Indigenous Archives

Schweitzer Ivy, Henry Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9781512603651, ISBN: HB: 9781512603644, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Afterlives of Indigenous Archives" offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of "digital humanities". The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous sc...

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America

Money, Power, and the People The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic

Shaw Christopher W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226636337, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Banks and bankers are hardly the most beloved people and institutions in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold on the American economy, Wall Street is not held in high regard by many outside the financial sector. Bu...

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Christianity

America

America's Religious Wars The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life

Sands Kathleen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300213867, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When Americans fight about "religion", we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core politi...

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Business & Economics

America

Forgotten Americans An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation

Sawhill Isabel

ISBN: HB: 9780300230369, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white graphs

One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society – economic, cultural, and political – and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of...

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America

National Tribune Civil War Index, Volume 1: 1877-1903 A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943

Sauers Richard A.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213645, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
360 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 image

The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans' newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrades and sway Congress to pass better pension laws, a short time later the National Tribune began publish...

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National Tribune Civil War Index, Volume 2: 1904-1943 A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943

Sauers Richard A.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213652, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
360 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 image

The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans' newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrades and sway Congress to pass better pension laws, a short time later the National Tribune began publish...

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National Tribune Civil War Index, Volume 3: Author, Unit, and Subject Index A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943

Sauers Richard A.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213669, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
504 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 image

The National Tribune was the premier Union veterans' newspaper of the post-Civil War era. Launched in 1877 by a New York veteran to help his comrades and sway Congress to pass better pension laws, a short time later the National Tribune began publish...

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America

Cherokee Diaspora An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity

Smithers Gregory D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234671, ISBN: HB: 9780300169607, Yale University Press, April 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one...

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America

Tanana Chiefs Native Rights and Western Law

Schneider William

ISBN: PB: 9781602233447, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 halftones

At the turn of the twentieth century, life was changing drastically in Alaska. The gold rush brought an onslaught of white settlers to the area, railroad companies were pushing into the territory, and telegraph lines opened up new lines of communicat...

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