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Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980

Staub Michael E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214634, ISBN: HB: 9780226771472, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social...

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Necessary Evil Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982812, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 3 line drawings, 6 maps

From the Mormon Wars to the Border Wars to gangs of Bald Knobbers and Bushwhackers, Missouri's reign of vigilante justice during the nineteenth century is unparalleled by any other state in the nation. Situated as the Gateway to the West, Missouri ex...

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City for Children Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

Gutman Marta

ISBN: HB: 9780226311289, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 120 halftones, 14 line drawings

American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast c...

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America

Kiska The Japanese Occupation of an Alaska Island

Coyle Brendan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232372, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour plates, 77 halftones

Alaska's windswept Aleutian Island chain arcs for over a thousand miles toward Asia from the Alaska Peninsula. In this remote and hostile archipelago is Kiska Island, an uninhabited sub-arctic speck in the tempestuous Bering Sea. Few have the opportu...

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America

Global Republic America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power

Ninkovich Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226164731, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world's stage. The country's economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy, and its leading position in international institutions tend to be seen as the result of a lo...

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History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 2, 1970-1986

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213514, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 line drawings, 48 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226520025, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
696 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 line drawings, 33 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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Declaration of Independence in Historical Context American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, and Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congresses

Shain Barry Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300158748, Yale University Press, August 2014
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Political science professor Barry Shain has collected 174 letters, papers, petitions and proclamations from the years directly preceding the creation of the Declaration of Independence that challenge many of the dominant narratives that shape contemp...

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Gathering Together The Shawnee People Through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870

Lakomaki Sami

ISBN: HB: 9780300180619, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomaki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the centre of American history. The book spans nearly three centuries, from the years l...

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Nature and Nurture of Love From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America

Marga Vicedo

ISBN: PB: 9780226215136, ISBN: HB: 9780226020556, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones, 4 line illus.

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists – anything from the fear of romantic comm...

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