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Ancient World

Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

Charpin Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9780226101583, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization – home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code o...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow A Guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive

Fishman David E., Kupovetsky Mark, Kuzelenkov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9781589662209, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

During their ascendency and subsequent occupation of much of Europe, the Nazis plundered the documents and cultural treasures of Jewish organizations as well as other groups and individuals they deemed to be enemies of the Reich. When the Nazis were...

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Asia

Law

Asian Legal Revivals Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire

Dezalay Yves, Garth Bryant G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226144634, ISBN: HB: 9780226144627, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Lega...

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Middle East

Islam

Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890

Arjomand Said Amir

ISBN: PB: 9780226027845, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Dismissing oversimplified and politically-charged views of the politics of Shi'ite Islam, Said Amir Arjomand offers a richly researched sociological and historical study of Shi'ism and the political order of premodern Iran that exposes the roots of w...

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America

Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870

Morris Robert C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226539294, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

This study of education for freedmen following Emancipation is the definitive treatment of the subject. Employing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Morris examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particula...

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Europe

Colonialism and Science Saint Domingue and the Old Regime

McClellan James E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226514673, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 figures, 4 maps, 4 tables, 1 halftone

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science contributed to colonialism? Saint Domingue (now Haiti) was the world's richest colony in the eighteenth century and home to an active...

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America

Anthropology

Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America

Adams Gretchen A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005430, ISBN: HB: 9780226005416, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to de...

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Criminology

Current Affairs

Seven Shots An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath

Hunt Jennifer C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226360904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn and narrowly prevented a suicide bombing of the New York subway that would have cost hundreds, possibly thousands of lives. "Seven Shots" tells the...

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Europe

Prague Palimpsest Writing, Memory, and the City

Thomas Alfred

ISBN: HB: 9780226795409, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly...

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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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