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America

Dominion from Sea to Sea Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

Cumings Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780300168006, Yale University Press, October 2010
672 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans – the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remain...

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Political Science

Cruel and Unusual The Culture of Punishment in America

Cusac Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300168013, ISBN: HB: 9780300111743, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward...

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Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870

Morris Robert C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226539294, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

This study of education for freedmen following Emancipation is the definitive treatment of the subject. Employing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Morris examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particula...

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Anthropology

Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America

Adams Gretchen A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005430, ISBN: HB: 9780226005416, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to de...

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Bourgeois Frontier French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

Gitlin Jay

ISBN: PB: 9780300168037, Yale University Press, September 2010
290 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of...

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Furs and Frontiers in the Far North The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

Bockstoce John R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167993, Yale University Press, September 2010
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 42 black&white illus.

This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and...

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Culture Studies

Visualizing American Empire Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226075341, ISBN: HB: 9780226075334, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 66 halftones

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one ele...

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Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226750255, ISBN: HB: 9780226750248, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
486 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 16 halftones

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts – indeed, highly respected experts – authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and w...

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Military

Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Geiger Mark W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300151510, Yale University Press, July 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience i...

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General

Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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