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America

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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America

Managing the Mountains Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia

Gregg Sara M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192568, ISBN: HB: 9780300142198, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest, park, and agricultural polic...

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America

Gender Studies

Nature's Noblemen Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-century American West

Rico Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780300136067, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. R...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Woodrow Wilson Princeton to the Presidency

Maynard W. Barksdale

ISBN: PB: 9780300204889, Yale University Press, July 2013
406 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive yea...

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America

Rush to Gold France, the French, and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854

Rohrbough Malcolm J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181401, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many "wagons west". However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers travelled by land. The other half travelled by sea. And it's the story of this second group that interests Malcolum Rohrbough in his...

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Gender Studies

America

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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America

Time No Longer Americans After the American Century

Smith Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300176568, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice: b...

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Christianity

America

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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America

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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America

Christianity

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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