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America

Defectives in the Land Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

Baynton Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226758633, ISBN: HB: 9780226364162, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant".Defectives in the Land", Douglas C. Baynton's groun...

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Middle East

Bhutto Dynasty The Struggle for Power in Pakistan

Bennett-Jones Owen

ISBN: HB: 9780300246674, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.

The Bhutto family has long been one of the most ambitious and powerful in Pakistan. But politics has cost the Bhuttos dear. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, widely regarded as the most talented politician in the country's history, was removed from power in 1977...

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America

Hope and Scorn Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics

Brown Michael J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226718149, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Intellectuals "have been both rallying points and railed against in American politics, vessels of hope and targets of scorn", writes Michael J. Brown as he invigorates a recurrent debate in American life: are intellectual public figures essential voi...

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Ancient World

Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State

Beck Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226711485, ISBN: HB: 9780226711348, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings

Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. Wh...

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History

Europe

Time Travelers Victorian Encounters with Time and History

Buckland Adelene, Qureshi Sadiah

ISBN: PB: 9780226676791, ISBN: HB: 9780226676654, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of la...

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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Lessons of Tragedy Statecraft and World Order

Brands Hal, Edel Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300251760, Yale University Press, April 2020
216 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and coura...

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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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Military

Military Strategy A Global History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300217186, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the...

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Africa

Anthropology

For Money and Elders Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya

Blunt Robert W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226655758, ISBN: HB: 9780226655611, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch. Yet efforts from critics and academics to diagnose...

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America

Ecology

Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America

Belgrad Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226652535, ISBN: HB: 9780226652368, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones

When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback". But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamic...

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