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Home Front Daily Life in the Civil War North

Brownlee Peter John, Burns Sarah, Dillon Diane, Greene Daniel, Manning Stevens Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226061856, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 90 colour plates

More than one hundred and fifty years after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Paintings and photographs, plays and movies, novels, poetry, and songs portray the war as...

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America

Sacred Relics Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America

Barnett Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9780226059600, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past – often called "association items" – may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued b...

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America

Black Patriots and Loyalists Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence

Gilbert Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226101552, ISBN: HB: 9780226293073, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm

We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population – African Americans would still be bound in sl...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Image and Myth A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art

Giuliani Luca

ISBN: HB: 9780226297651, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 87 halftones

On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece – but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In "Image and Myth", Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiq...

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America

Accidental Diarist A History of the Daily Planner in America

McCarthy Molly A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226033358, ISBN: HB: 9780226033211, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 34 halftones

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans have been navel-gazing since nearly the beginning of the republic. The daily planner – variously called th...

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Cartography

America

Mapping the Nation History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

Schulten Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226103969, ISBN: HB: 9780226740683, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 47 halftones

In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators m...

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America

Protocols of Liberty Communication Innovation and the American Revolution

Warner William B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226061375, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 14 line drawings

The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred "in the minds and hearts of the people" before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication a...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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Ancient World

Other

Women and Weasels Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome

Bettini Maurizio

ISBN: HB: 9780226044743, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a...

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Ancient World

Literary Criticism

Oedipus and the Sphinx The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau

Renger Almut-Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780226048086, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
136 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 1 table

When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle – he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myt...

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