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Medieval

Modulated Scream Pain in Late Medieval Culture

Cohen Esther

ISBN: HB: 9780226112671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrong doing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain – fro...

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America

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Freund David M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262765, ISBN: HB: 9780226262758, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
526 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line illus.

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial...

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Europe

Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

Hadley Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780226311883, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people th...

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Ancient World

Death in Babylon Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226037363, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
272 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 2 halftones

Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronic...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher

Harris Leonard, Molesworth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226317779, ISBN: HB: 9780226317762, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that "the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem". Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promot...

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Europe

New World Gold Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain

Vilches Elvira

ISBN: HB: 9780226856186, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
368 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spani...

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Asia

Eurasian Crossroads A History of Xinjiang

Millward James A.

ISBN: HB: 9781849040679, Hurst Publishers, May 2010
440 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Xinjiang, the vast northwestern region comprising one sixth of the PRC today, borders on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Russia and Mongolia. Since antiquity it has stood at the crossroads betwe...

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America

For All the World to See Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Berger Maurice

ISBN: HB: 9780300121315, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 125 illus.

In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their...

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Europe

Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America

Mancall Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164220, ISBN: HB: 9780300110548, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 44 black&white illus.

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...

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Ancient World

Empty Bottles of Gentilism Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)

Oakley Francis

ISBN: HB: 9780300155389, Yale University Press, April 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this book – the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought – Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late...

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