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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

Burnard Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226639246, ISBN: HB: 9780226286105, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 18 tables

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men – men w...

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America

Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco

Oda Meredith

ISBN: PB: 9780226592749, ISBN: HB: 9780226592602, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific", using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newf...

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Film Studies

America

Hollywood in Havana US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959

Feeney Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226593692, ISBN: HB: 9780226593555, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movies theaters t...

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America

Imagining Anchorage The Making of America's Northernmost Metropolis

Barnett James, Hartman Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781602233669, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2019
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 132 colour plates

Anchorage is an exceptional city. What was once a town site of tents is now the largest city in the state. It just celebrated its centenary in 2015, but it has seen inhabitants for millennia. It is an economic hub grown from railroads, gold, and oil....

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America

Islands of Sovereignty Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire

Kahn Jeffrey S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226587417, ISBN: HB: 9780226587387, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 17 line drawings

In "Islands of Sovereignty", anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal...

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America

Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake

Musselwhite Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226585284, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

The early Europeans settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some viewed the bay as a wild landscape waiting to be tamed, while others saw potential there for spiritual sanctuary. But all of th...

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America

Bulls Markets Chicago's Basketball Business and the New Inequality

Dinces Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226583211, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 25 tables

The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners i...

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America

Chicago by the Book 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

ISBN: HB: 9780226468501, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 145 colour plates

Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" arose from the midwestern capital's mo...

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America

Through Their Eyes A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central

Koskey Michael, Lotvonen Varpu, Tyrell Laurel

ISBN: PB: 9781602233577, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2018
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables

The towns of Eagle, Circle, and Central are tucked away in the cold, rugged, and sparsely populated central-eastern interior of Alaska. These communities have fewer than three hundred residents in an area of more than 22,000 square miles. Yet they ar...

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America

World of Homeowners American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

Kwak Nancy H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598253, ISBN: HB: 9780226282350, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Is there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's major exports and defining characteristics around th...

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