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America
Building a Revolutionary State The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783
Pashman Howard
ISBN: PB: 9780226544014, ISBN: HB: 9780226334356, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed...
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Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
LaChance Daniel
ISBN: PB: 9780226583181, ISBN: HB: 9780226066691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless...
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Taken by Storm, 1938 A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane
Aviles Lourdes B.
ISBN: PB: 9781944970246, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
384 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 30 halftones
On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything,...
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Tanana Chiefs Native Rights and Western Law
Schneider William
ISBN: PB: 9781602233447, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 halftones
At the turn of the twentieth century, life was changing drastically in Alaska. The gold rush brought an onslaught of white settlers to the area, railroad companies were pushing into the territory, and telegraph lines opened up new lines of communicat...
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Christianity
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American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975
Osborne Catherine R.
ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....
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Crossing Parish Boundaries Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954
Neary Timothy B.
ISBN: PB: 9780226565989, ISBN: HB: 9780226388762, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialis...
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God's Businessmen Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War
Hammond Sarah Ruth
ISBN: HB: 9780226509778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II....
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Polarizers Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era
Rosenfeld Sam
ISBN: HB: 9780226407258, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of governme...
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America
Looking Forward Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
Pietruska Jamie L.
ISBN: HB: 9780226475004, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possi...
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How Our Days Became Numbered Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual
Bouk Dan
ISBN: PB: 9780226564869, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers", American capitalism embraced "risk" – and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predi...
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