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City of American Dreams A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

Garb Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226282107, ISBN: HB: 9780226282091, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 15 halftones

In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing v...

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America

Culture Studies

Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226871837, ISBN: HB: 9780226871820, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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Asia

America

Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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Jewish Studies

America

New Jewish Leaders Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape

Wertheimer Jack

ISBN: PB: 9781611681833, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly launched a slew of new initiatives directed at their age peers. Born during the last quarter of...

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General

America

Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain

Peel Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...

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America

Thousand-Year Flood The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

Welky David

ISBN: HB: 9780226887166, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 18 halftones

In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a milli...

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Nature

America

Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Nicholls Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...

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America

Slaveholders' Union Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic

Cleve George William

ISBN: PB: 9780226846705, ISBN: HB: 9780226846682, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested polit...

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America

Media Studies

What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

Hendershot Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226326788, ISBN: HB: 9780226326771, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones, 3 line illus.

The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and '60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridat...

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America

Made in America A Social History of American Culture and Character

Fischer Claude S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226251448, ISBN: HB: 9780226251431, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
528 pp., 23x15 cm

Our nation began with the simple phrase, "We the People". But who were and are "We"? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radical...

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