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Velvet Revolution 30 Years After

MacDonagh-Pajerova Monika, Sommerova Olga

ISBN: PB: 9788024644486, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
144 pp., 26x20.3 cm, 83 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November to December 1989, this book gathers dissident academics, a student l...

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Biography & Memoires

World of Juliette Kinzie Chicago before the Fire

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226664521, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Writing Underground Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024641256, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Road to September 1939 Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

Reinharz Jehuda, Shavit Yaacov

ISBN: PB: 9781684580071, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv were mindful of the plight of European Jews in the face of the Nazi threat during the 1930s. Drawing on a wide variety of memoirs, let...

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America

Civic Gifts Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State

Clemens Elisabeth S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226670836, ISBN: HB: 9780226559360, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 7 tables

In "Civic Gifts", Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despi...

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America

Political Science

America's Inequality Trap

Kelly Nathan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...

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America

Great River City How the Mississippi Shaped St. Louis

Wanko Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781883982959, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
240 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 151 colour plates, 199 halftone

For St. Louis, the Mississippi has always been more than just a river. It's been the focus of the local economy, a shaping force on millions of lives, and a mirror for the city's triumphs, embarrassments, joys, and tragedies. Through fifty-six snapsh...

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Cartography

Europe

Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe

Piechocki Katharina N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....

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America

Clashing over Commerce A History of US Trade Policy

Irwin Douglas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226678443, ISBN: HB: 9780226398969, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
862 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 21 line drawings

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevit...

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Ancient World

Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece

Landauer Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226653792, ISBN: HB: 9780226654010, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an impo...

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