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Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226750255, ISBN: HB: 9780226750248, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
486 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 16 halftones

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts – indeed, highly respected experts – authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and w...

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General

Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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America

Political Science

Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate

Koger Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226449654, ISBN: HB: 9780226449647, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 51 line illus.

In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislativ...

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America

Unsettling History Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

Jobs Sebastian, Ludtke Alf

ISBN: PB: 9783593388182, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2010
253 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. With "Unsettling History", a group of historians extend that challenge to two central compon...

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America

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Freund David M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262765, ISBN: HB: 9780226262758, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
526 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line illus.

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher

Harris Leonard, Molesworth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226317779, ISBN: HB: 9780226317762, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that "the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem". Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promot...

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Jewish Studies

Becoming American Jews Temple Israel of Boston

Dwyer-Ryan Meaghan, Porter Susan L., Fagin Davis Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9781584657903, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2009
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its beginning in 1854 as a traditional German shul to its current status as the largest Reform synagogue in New England, Temple Israel has been an important force in Boston and American Jewish life. The congregation's ongoing efforts to adapt to...

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Architecture

America

Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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Jewish Studies

America

Observing America's Jews

Sklare Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9781584655640, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2006
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish history.

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America

Jewish Studies

American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise

Reinharz Shulamit, Raider Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9781584654391, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2004
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention. A major contribution to Zionist history, women's history, and American history,...

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