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Peppermint Kings A Rural American History

Allosso Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300236828, Yale University Press, August 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.

This unconventional history relates the engaging and unusual stories of three families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose involvement in the peppermint oil industry provides insights into the perspectives and concerns of rural...

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America

States of Exception in American History

Gerstle Gary, Isaac Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226712321, ISBN: HB: 9780226712291, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

"States of Exception in American History" brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the p...

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After Redlining The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

Marchiel Rebecca K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226723648, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding an...

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America

World Is Always Coming to an End Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood

Rotella Carlo

ISBN: PB: 9780226759616, ISBN: HB: 9780226624037, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 map

An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day – and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people – the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it c...

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America

Year of Peril America in 1942

Campbell Tracy

ISBN: HB: 9780300233780, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.

The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on th...

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Political Science

America

Myth of the Imperial Presidency How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive

Christenson Dino P., Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226704364, ISBN: HB: 9780226704227, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 23 tables

Throughout the history of the United States, the nation's presidents have shown a startling power to act independently of Congress and the courts. Using such tools as executive orders and memoranda, presidents have taken the country to war, abolished...

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America

Province of Affliction Illness and the Making of Early New England

Mutschler Ben

ISBN: HB: 9780226714424, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How do we balance individual and collective responsibility for illness? This question, which continues to resonate today, was especially pressing in colonial America, where episodic bouts of sickness were pervasive, chronic ails common, and epidemics...

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America

Unlikely General "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America

Stockwell Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300251876, Yale University Press, June 2020
376 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 22 black&white illus.

In the spring of 1792, President George Washington chose "Mad" Anthony Wayne to defend America from a potentially devastating threat. Native forces had decimated the standing army and Washington needed a champion to open the country stretching from t...

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Christianity

America

American Catholics A History

Woodcock Tentler Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300219647, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice...

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America

Urban Lowlands A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning

Moga Steven T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226710532, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

In "Urban Lowlands", Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the pover...

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