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Global Indies British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815

Cohen Ashley L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300239973, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

In this lively book, Ashley Cohen reveals how eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire – not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected "Indies". Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, an...

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Middle East

Last Shah America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty

Takeyh Ray

ISBN: HB: 9780300217797, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on...

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America

Surveying Early America The Point of Beginning: An Illustrated History

Terry Clinto

ISBN: PB: 9781947603028, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021
176 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 colour plates

At the age of sixteen, our first president began his professional life as a surveyor, going on to lead several expeditions to measure and map the American interior. The early surveyors, whether determining a colonial border, setting a boundary for a...

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Asia

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia"

Riebold Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593509020, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
586 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the time of China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a "weak state" dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a...

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Realtime Making Digital China

Renaud Clement, Graezer Bideau Florence, Laperrouza Marc

ISBN: PB: 9782889153459, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Realtime is an investigation into China's digital and urban infrastructure, practices, and imaginary spaces. It attempts to capture the pace, scale, and depth of China's complex and changing reality. Realtime is a collection of original accounts, ana...

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America

Remembering Emmett Till

Tell Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226559674, ISBN: HB: 9780226559537, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
322 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate...

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America

City Creative The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America

Carriere Michael H., Schalliol David

ISBN: HB: 9780226727226, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 145 colour plates

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking – small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal. But the projec...

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America

Past and Prologue Politics and Memory in the American Revolution

Hattem Michael D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300234961, Yale University Press, January 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In "Past and Prologue", Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Ame...

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Media Studies

Aristocracy of Critics Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press

Bates Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300111897, Yale University Press, January 2021
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

In 1943, Time Inc. editor-in-chief Henry R. Luce sponsored the greatest collaboration of intellectuals in the twentieth century. He and University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins summoned the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the Pulitzer-win...

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Europe

History of Art

Goering's Man in Paris The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

Petropoulos Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300251920, Yale University Press, January 2021
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Goring to Hitler's special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from F...

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