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Renaissance Prague

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024638577, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
190 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 129 colour plates, 15 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague's throne, the character of the city's municipalities began to transition from medieval to R...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Dream of the Water Children Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific

Kakinami Cloyd Fredrick D.

ISBN: PB: 9781940939285, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, March 2019
476 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm

Born to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, the narrator of "Dream of the Water Children", finds himself not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heritage, but often a cultural drifter, as well. I...

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America

Renewal Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II

Wild Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226605234, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries' complicity wi...

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Europe

Polonica

Fragmented Lives Chronicles of the Gulag

Rossi Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9788024637006, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Fragmented Lives", Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a series of portraits of inmates and camp personnel ac...

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America

Business & Economics

Hawai'i Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change

La Croix Sumner

ISBN: HB: 9780226592091, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables

Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understa...

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Ecology

Middle East

Under Osman's Tree The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History

Mikhail Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226638881, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 tables

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman's empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the...

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Asia

Village with My Name A Family History of China's Opening to the World

Tong Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226636955, ISBN: HB: 9780226338866, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace", the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became...

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Political Science

America

Shaped by the State Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century

Cebul Brent, Geismer Lily, Williams Mason B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226596327, ISBN: HB: 9780226596297, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with s...

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America

Other

Ku Klux Kulture America and the Klan in the 1920s

Harcourt Felix

ISBN: PB: 9780226637938, ISBN: HB: 9780226376158, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In "Ku Klux Kulture", Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux...

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America

Political Science

Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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