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Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900 Volume 1: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru

Forment Carlos A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101415, ISBN: HB: 9780226257150, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 maps, 19 figures, 11 tables

Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newsp...

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Meet Joe Copper Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front

Basso Matthew L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044194, ISBN: HB: 9780226038865, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

"I realize that I am a soldier of production whose duties are as important in this war as those of the man behind the gun". So began the pledge that many home front men took at the outset of World War II when they went to work in the factories, field...

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Body of Faith A Biological History of Religion in America

Fuller Robert C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226025087, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm

The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. Yet newly emerging information about the biological body now makes it possible to supplement traditional scholarly models...

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Planning the Home Front Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run

Jo Peterson Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780226025421, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 19 halftones

Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a "date which will live in infamy"; before American soldiers landed on D-Day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of...

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Image of God Catholics and American Eugenics

Leon Sharon M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226038988, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "unfit" members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilizatio...

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Up North St. Louis's Summer Colonies on Lake Huron in the Golden Age of Travel

Brookes Douglas Scott

ISBN: PB: 9781883982744, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, May 2013
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 1 map, 80 halftones

For everyone from school age to professional, there is no greater pleasure than the summer vacation, the chance to pack our suitcases and escape from workaday life and domestic chores; we look forward to it during the long slog and count down the day...

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West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire

Purcell Munley Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9781589662124, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2013
100 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

In early 1947 residents of the west side of Carbondale, Pennsylvania began noticing a peculiar steam escaping from the ground. An investigation into this phenomenon revealed that Carbondale was slowly but steadily being destroyed by a burning inferno...

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Slaves Waiting for Sale Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

McInnis Maurie D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055060, ISBN: HB: 9780226559339, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 125 halftones, 12 colour illus.

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culmi...

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Long View Dispatches on Alaska History

Coen Ross

ISBN: PB: 9780974922171, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
225 pp., 20x12.7 cm, 53 halftones

Too often the history of a place is reduced to a list of dates and a handful of major events, ignoring the daily stories that help shape its legacy".In The Long View", Ross Coen stops to explore the smaller yet extremely meaningful moments in Alaska'...

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West of Sex Making Mexican America, 1900-1930

Mitchell Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226532691, ISBN: HB: 9780226532684, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In "West of Sex", Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and crim...

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