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Gender Studies

Breaching the Citadel The India Papers

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757786, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"Breaching the Citadel", part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and pathbreaking research on sexual violence and impunity....

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Philosophy

Sophistry and Political Philosophy Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates

Bartlett Robert C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226639697, ISBN: HB: 9780226394282, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon "truths". As Nietzsche observed in his "Will to Power", the currents of relativism that have come to characterize...

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Literary Criticism

Other Things

Brown Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780226283029, ISBN: HB: 9780226076652, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 30 halftones

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone – the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In "Other Thin...

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America

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

Burnard Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226639246, ISBN: HB: 9780226286105, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 18 tables

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men – men w...

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America

Imagining Anchorage The Making of America's Northernmost Metropolis

Barnett James, Hartman Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781602233669, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2019
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 132 colour plates

Anchorage is an exceptional city. What was once a town site of tents is now the largest city in the state. It just celebrated its centenary in 2015, but it has seen inhabitants for millennia. It is an economic hub grown from railroads, gold, and oil....

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Business & Economics

General

Economics of Poverty Traps

Barrett Christopher B., Carter Michael, Chavas Jean-Paul, Carter Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226574301, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 line drawings, 33 tables

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Ye...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Evidence of Being The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence

Bost Darius

ISBN: PB: 9780226589824, ISBN: HB: 9780226589794, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Evidence of Being" opens on a grim scene: Washington D. C. 's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest...

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History

X Club Power and Authority in Victorian Science

Barton Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780226551616, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 3 tables

In 1864, amid headline-grabbing heresy trials, members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were asked to sign a declaration affirming that science and scripture were in agreement. Many criticized the new test of orthodoxy; nine...

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Asia

Invention of Madness State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China

Baum Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226558240, ISBN: HB: 9780226580616, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Receptive Bodies

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226579764, ISBN: HB: 9780226579627, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 2 halftones

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book around a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin idea...

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