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China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensions, scholars have tended to focus on ethnic clashes...

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Earth Sciences

Novel Science Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

Buckland Adelene

ISBN: HB: 9780226079684, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 9 colour illus.

"Novel Science" is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men,...

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Cartography

No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534688, ISBN: HB: 9780226534671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
242 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 line drawings, 63 halftones

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain...

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Cartography

Natures of Maps Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World

Wood Denis, Fels John

ISBN: HB: 9780226906041, University of Chicago Press, January 2009
231 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 179 colour plates, 16 halftones

Cartographers have known for decades that maps are far from objective representations of the world; rather, every map reflects the agendas and intentions of its creators. Yet that understanding has had almost no effect on the way maps are viewed and...

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