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America

Power to Die Slavery and Suicide in British North America

Snyder Terri L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226280561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 table

The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they j...

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America

Pox of Liberty How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection

Troesken Werner

ISBN: HB: 9780226922171, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 7 tables

The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth – behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others....

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America

Patriotic Betrayal The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism

Paget Karen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300205084, Yale University Press, February 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

In this revelatory book, Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War, with students used – often wittingly and sometimes unwittingly – as undercover agents inside America and...

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America

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 41 September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

Cohn Ellen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203745, Yale University Press, July 2014
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm

After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin's official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. Great Britain refused to negotiate a commercial agreement, and Congress failed to act on the draft treaties of c...

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America

Puerto Rican Citizen History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City

Thomas Lorrin

ISBN: PB: 9780226151762, ISBN: HB: 9780226796086, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's m...

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America

Protocols of Liberty Communication Innovation and the American Revolution

Warner William B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226061375, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 14 line drawings

The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred "in the minds and hearts of the people" before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication a...

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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

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 40 May 16 Through September 15, 1783

Cohn Ellen R., Dull Jonathan R., Ohno Kate M., Anderson Alicia K., Garbooshian Adrina, Sletcher Michael, Ziesche Philipp, Cain Alysia M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300165463, Yale University Press, February 2012
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

During the period of this volume, the United States of America completed its transformation into a fully recognized independent nation. In May, Franklin and his fellow American peace commissioners John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens recommenced t...

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America

Culture Studies

Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226871837, ISBN: HB: 9780226871820, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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Photography

America

Picturing Faith Photography and the Great Depression

McDannell Colleen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184464, Yale University Press, November 2011
330 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks-all then virtually unknown-were com...

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