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Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City

Jenkins Destin

ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...

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Poetry

Women Studies

Eleanor

Jacobik Gray

ISBN: PB: 9781933880754, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In" Eleanor", Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure h...

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Women Studies

Calamity The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

Jones Karen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300212808, Yale University Press, February 2020
304 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 20 colour illus.

Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity Jane, was the pistol-packing, rootin' tootin' "lady wildcat" of the American West. Brave and resourceful, she held her own with the men of America's most colorful era and became a celebrity both in her...

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America

Women Studies

They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Jones-Rogers Stephanie E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300251838, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave?...

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Criminology

Human Trafficking An Organised Crime?

Jesperson Sasha, Henriksen Rune, Barry Anne-Marie, Jones Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781787381285, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Human trafficking" brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under threat of violence. However, human trafficking is not limited to the sex trade, and...

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General

America

Browning of the New South

Jones Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226600987, ISBN: HB: 9780226600840, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 table

Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlement mean that these studies no longer paint the whole picture. Many Latino newcomers are flocking to pl...

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Political Science

General

Emotions of Protest

Jasper James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561783, ISBN: HB: 9780226561646, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables

In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popu...

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Political Science

General

Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

Jansen Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Oscar Wilde Prefigured Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

Janes Dominic

ISBN: HB: 9780226358642, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

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Criminology

Provisional Authority Police, Order, and Security in India

Jauregui Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9780226403700, ISBN: HB: 9780226403670, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studyi...

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