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Architecture

America

Design for the Crowd Patriotism and Protest in Union Square

Merwood-Salisbury Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226080826, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 43 halftones

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originally designed in 1830 to beautify a residential neighbo...

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Contemporary Art

America

Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...

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America

General

Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs

Gordon Colin

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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America

Ecology

Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America

Belgrad Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226652535, ISBN: HB: 9780226652368, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones

When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback". But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamic...

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America

Music

I'd Fight the World A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music

La Chapelle Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226923000, ISBN: HB: 9780226922997, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In "I'd Fight the World", Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics...

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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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America

Technology & Engineering

None of Your Damn Business Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

Cappello Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226557748, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

You can hardly pass through customs at an airport today without having your picture taken and your fingertips scanned, that information then stored in an archive you'll never see. Nor can you use your home's smart technology without wondering what, e...

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Anthropology

America

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

Alaska in the Progressive Age A Political History, 1896 to 1916

Alton Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781602233843, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of...

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America

Maroon Nation A History of Revolutionary Haiti

Gonzalez Johnhenry

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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