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America

Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Ryan Josh M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...

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Christianity

Christianity and Race in the American South A History

Harvey Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...

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Origins of Cool in Postwar America

Dinerstein Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226599069, ISBN: HB: 9780226152653, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

"Cool". It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. "The Origins of Cool in Postwar America" uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came...

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America

This Land Is Your Land The Story of Field Biology in America

Lannoo Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226580890, ISBN: HB: 9780226358475, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 9 line drawings, 1 table

Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and th...

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Women Studies

Wildcat Women Narratives of the Women Breaking Ground in Alaska's Oil and Gas Industry

Williams Carla

ISBN: PB: 9781602233546, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats".Wildcat Women" is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's Nor...

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Political Science

General

Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation

Fisher Williamson Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780226572659, ISBN: HB: 9780226572512, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables

Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal immigration...

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Bankers and Empire How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

Hudson Peter James

ISBN: PB: 9780226598116, ISBN: HB: 9780226459110, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. The precursors to institutions like Citibank and J...

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Slaughterhouse Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226566030, ISBN: HB: 9780226123097, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

From the minute it opened – on Christmas Day in 1865 – it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the...

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Culture Studies

Machines of Youth America's Car Obsession

Cross Gary S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226551135, ISBN: HB: 9780226341644, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

For American teenagers, getting a driver's license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver's license in hand, teens are on the road...

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Jewish Studies

After They Closed the Gates Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965

Garland Libby

ISBN: PB: 9780226565224, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws wer...

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