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Political Science

Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty The Tocqueville Thesis Revisited

Zuckert Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226490670, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Tocqueville's thesis on the relation between religion and liberty could hardly be timelier. From events in the Middle East and the spread of Islamist violence in the name of religion to the mandated coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the interac...

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America

Political Science

Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Jou Chin

ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...

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Asia

Complicities The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism

Dirlik Arif

ISBN: PB: 9780996635530, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
86 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting a...

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Political Science

Ancient World

Ethics and the Orator The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality

Remer Gary A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226439167, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In "Ethics and the Orator", Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder....

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Political Science

Strategic Party Government Why Winning Trumps Ideology

Koger Gregory, Lebo Matthew J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226424606, ISBN: HB: 9780226424576, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 figures, 16 tables

Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compellin...

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Secessionist Rule Protracted Conflict and Configurations of Non-State Authority

Smolnik Franziska

ISBN: PB: 9783593506296, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
425 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 3 maps, 7 tables

In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent conflict. Drawing on case studies of unrecognized or only parti...

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Law

Democratic Theory of Judgment

Zerilli Linda M. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226397986, ISBN: HB: 9780226397849, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criter...

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Political Science

Beyond Decent Work The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia

Hauf Felix

ISBN: PB: 9783593506449, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones, 3 tables

"Beyond Decent Work" explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative...

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National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

Pram Gad Ulrik

ISBN: PB: 9788763545020, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, January 2017
148 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 3 halftones, 5 figures

Though it's many miles away from tiny Denmark, Greenland is administered as an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. It's a relationship that at first glance appears unusual, and, as Ulrik Pram Gad shows, that relationship is quietly predicated...

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Jewish Studies

Political Science

Inside the Antisemitic Mind The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany

Schwarz-Friesel Monika, Reinharz Jehuda

ISBN: PB: 9781611689846, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
454 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Antisemitism never disappeared in Europe. In fact, there is substantial evidence that it is again on the rise, manifest in violent acts against Jews in some quarters, but more commonly noticeable in everyday discourse in mainstream European society....

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