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Why Parties? A Second Look

Aldrich John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012742, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 24 tables, 24 line illus.

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, "Why Parties?" has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark...

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Political Essay on the Island of Cuba A Critical Edition

Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226465678, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
496 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 115 tables

The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early nineteenth-century proved foundational to the fields of botany, geography, and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observation...

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Puritan Origins of the American Self

Bercovitch Sacvan

ISBN: PB: 9780300172416, Yale University Press, April 2011
260 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, this title explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context.

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Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century

Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593393551, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2011
340 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 1 map, 3 figures, 15 halftones

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U. S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancem...

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America

Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable American Reburials

Kammen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226423302, ISBN: HB: 9780226423296, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grav...

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Evolution

Banquet at Delmonico's The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America

Werth Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226893846, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm

In "Banquet at Delmonico's", Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to post-Civil-War America. Each chapter is dedicated to a...

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Culture Studies

Foul Bodies Cleanliness in Early America

Brown Kathleen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171556, Yale University Press, March 2011
464 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.

A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that...

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America

Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty

Harris J. William

ISBN: PB: 9780300171327, Yale University Press, March 2011
240 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 22 black&white illus.

In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than 500 'Free Negros' in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of GBP 1000 (about $200,000), possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slave owner himself, Jeremiah was...

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Liberty Bell

Nash Gary B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171426, Yale University Press, March 2011
256 pp., 20.1x13.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has su...

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America

Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes

Gonzalez Olga M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226302713, ISBN: HB: 9780226302706, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
344 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 4 maps, 1 table, 31 colour illus.

The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly esc...

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