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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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Military

War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures

Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...

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Europe

Mussolini and Hitler The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

Goeschel Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780300254730, ISBN: HB: 9780300178838, Yale University Press, July 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has und...

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Europe

Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance

Kramer Nathaniel, Stewart Jon

ISBN: HB: 9788763546706, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, July 2020
279 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Danish Golden Age was marked by several key events: the Napoleonic Wars, the bombardment of Copenhagen, the state bankruptcy in 1814 and the ensuing financial crisis, the revolution of 1848, and the establishment of a parliamentary democracy in 1...

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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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Europe

Compensations of Plunder How China Lost Its Treasures

Jacobs Justin M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226712017, ISBN: HB: 9780226711966, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely seen as "stolen" or "plundered" from their countries of origin, and demands for their return grow loud...

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Middle East

Biography & Memoires

Early Mubarak Years 1982-1989 The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume III

Mahfouz Naguib

ISBN: HB: 9781909942110, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, July 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In these essays Naguib Mahfouz comments on Egyptian politics, the role of Parliament, and the institutional changes that took place in Egypt after Honsi Mubarak became President in 1981.

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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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Asia

Tea War A History of Capitalism in China and India

Liu Andrew B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300243734, Yale University Press, June 2020
360 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, An...

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