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Taking Leave, Taking Liberties American Troops on the World War II Home Front

Hiltner Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226687049, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be "overpaid, oversexed, and over here". But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn't only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by th...

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Nature of the Future Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North

Pawley Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780226693835, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. "The Nature of the Future" aims to rema...

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America

Liberty Power Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics

Brooks Corey M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717166, ISBN: HB: 9780226307282, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage – but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties".Liberty Power" tells the story of h...

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Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...

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America

Women Studies

They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Jones-Rogers Stephanie E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300251838, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave?...

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We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World

Yaffe Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300230031, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interview...

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America

Latin America The Allure and Power of an Idea

Tenorio-Trillo Mauricio

ISBN: PB: 9780226705200, ISBN: HB: 9780226443065, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with th...

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Daily Thomas Paine A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age

Paine Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226653518, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis", Paine codified both co...

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America

Growing Up with the Country Family, Race, and Nation After the Civil War

Field Kendra Taira

ISBN: PB: 9780300248395, ISBN: HB: 9780300180527, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 black&white illus.

Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyo...

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America

Memory Lands King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

DeLucia Christine M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300248388, Yale University Press, January 2020
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as "King Philip's War", providing an alternative to "Pilgrim-centric" narratives that have conventionally domin...

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