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Africa

Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman

Parsons Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226647425, ISBN: HB: 9780226647418, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh – whose stage name was Clicko – performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "...

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Culture Studies

Globalizing American Studies

Edwards Brian T., Parameshwar Gaonkar Dilip

ISBN: PB: 9780226185071, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studie...

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Culture Studies

Technics and Civilization

Mumford Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226550275, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 – before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon ar...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Slumming Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940

Heap Chad

ISBN: PB: 9780226322445, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 maps, 19 halftones

During Prohibition, "Harlem was the 'in' place to go for music and booze", recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop".Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner", and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, an...

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Music

Culture Studies

Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music

Stokes Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones

At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...

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America

Culture Studies

Visualizing American Empire Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226075341, ISBN: HB: 9780226075334, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 66 halftones

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one ele...

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Culture Studies

Bigfoot The Life and Times of a Legend

Buhs Joshua Blu

ISBN: PB: 9780226079806, ISBN: HB: 9780226079790, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

With "Bigfoot", Joshua Blu Buhs traces the wild and wooly story of America's favorite homegrown monster. He begins with nineteenth-century accounts of wildmen roaming the forests of America, treks to the Himalayas to reckon with the Abominable Snowma...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Islands of Privacy

Nippert-Eng Christena E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226586533, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables, 2 halftones

Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise increasingly sophisticated data gathering tools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory, concerns over the use and abuse of personal information are undeniable. But t...

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Earth Sciences

Culture Studies

Authors of the Storm Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226249537, ISBN: HB: 9780226249520, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 3 halftones

Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, "the weather" is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government me...

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Culture Studies

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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