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American Capitals A Historical Geography
ISBN: HB: 9780226080482, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 6 line drawings, 42 tables
State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national identity. Learning them by heart is a rite of passage in grade school, a pedagogical exercise that emphasizes the importance of committin...
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£56,00
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War on Words Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226101699, ISBN: HB: 9780226294131, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm
How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with...
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£26,00
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£47,00
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Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect A New History
ISBN: PB: 9780226076928, ISBN: HB: 9780226076898, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi's forces. In invoking the "responsibility to protect", the resolution draws on the p...
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£28,00
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£76,50
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Great Rent Wars New York, 1917-1929
ISBN: HB: 9780300191721, Yale University Press, November 2013
504 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were trigg...
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£60,00
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Fire under the Ashes An Atlantic History of the English Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226157658, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
In "Fire under the Ashes", John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of se...
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£39,00
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Hell on the Range A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West
ISBN: PB: 9780300198263, Yale University Press, October 2013
384 pp., 23.9x15.7 cm, 40 black&white illus.
In this lively account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s, historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends...
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£33,00
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Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
ISBN: HB: 9780300141238, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angel...
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£65,00
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Tolerant Populists, Second Edition Kansas Populism and Nativism
ISBN: PB: 9780226054087, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People's Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the or...
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£24,00
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Sun Chief The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300191035, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in 1942, "Sun Chief" is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how...
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£19,00
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Home Front Daily Life in the Civil War North
ISBN: HB: 9780226061856, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 90 colour plates
More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as...
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£28,00
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