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America

War Stories Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North

Clarke Frances M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108629, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 7 halftones

The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of its immense suffering. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism, as most people continued to portray the war in high...

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America

Ecology

Boll Weevil Blues Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

Giesen James C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226292878, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
240 pp., 22x15 cm, 4 maps, 10 figures, 7 tables, 5 halftones

Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisi...

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America

Of War and Men World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families

LaRossa Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226467436, ISBN: HB: 9780226467429, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
328 pp., 25x15 cm

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. This common but limited stereotype obscures the remarkable diversity of their experiences and those of their children. To uncover the real...

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America

Last Colonial Massacre Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition

Grandin Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780226306902, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
336 pp., 22.8x15 cm, 23 halftones

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and p...

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America

Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic

Gustafson Sandra M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226311296, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practic...

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America

Law

State as a Work of Art The Cultural Origins of the Constitution

Slauter Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226761961, ISBN: HB: 9780226761954, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
392 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 5 line illus.

The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate, so inspired, and so monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial n...

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Political Science

America

Why Parties? A Second Look

Aldrich John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012742, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 24 tables, 24 line illus.

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, "Why Parties?" has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark...

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America

Political Essay on the Island of Cuba A Critical Edition

Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226465678, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
496 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 115 tables

The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early nineteenth-century proved foundational to the fields of botany, geography, and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observation...

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America

Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century

Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593393551, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2011
340 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 1 map, 3 figures, 15 halftones

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U. S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancem...

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America

Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable American Reburials

Kammen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226423302, ISBN: HB: 9780226423296, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grav...

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