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America

Global Republic America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power

Ninkovich Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226164731, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world's stage. The country's economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy, and its leading position in international institutions tend to be seen as the result of a lo...

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History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 2, 1970-1986

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213514, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 line drawings, 48 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226520025, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
696 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 line drawings, 33 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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Nature and Nurture of Love From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America

Marga Vicedo

ISBN: PB: 9780226215136, ISBN: HB: 9780226020556, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones, 4 line illus.

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists – anything from the fear of romantic comm...

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Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Fernandez Lilia

ISBN: PB: 9780226212845, ISBN: HB: 9780226244259, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 maps, 13 tables, 18 halftones

Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s an...

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Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Rodgers Daniel T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226136233, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
336 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heri...

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Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Harnessed to the Pole Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909

Nickerson Sheila

ISBN: PB: 9781602232235, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 15 maps

In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those...

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America

Outside the Gates of Eden The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Bacon Hales Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226313153, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
496 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 halftones

Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through "Outside the Gates of Eden", Peter Bacon Hales's ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic ag...

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City Water, City Life Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

Smith Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780226151595, ISBN: HB: 9780226022512, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the peopl...

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