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America

Making of Tocqueville's America Law and Association in the Early United States

Butterfield Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780226297088, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations – and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Stigma and Culture Last-Place Anxiety in Black America

Matory J. Lorand

ISBN: PB: 9780226297736, ISBN: HB: 9780226297569, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing

In "Stigma and Culture", J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States – and around the globe – is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek s...

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Business & Economics

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

Erickson Paul, Klein Judy L., Daston Lorraine, Lemov Rebecca, Sturm Thomas, Gordin Michael D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...

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Travel

Dolce far niente in Arabia Georg August Wallin and His Travels in the 1840s

Berg Patricia, Haggman Sofia, Ohrnberg Kaj, Hameen-Anttila Jaakko, Palva Heikki

ISBN: PB: 9788763543040, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2015
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 14 colour plates, 1 halftone, 7 maps

In the 1840s the Finnish orientalist Georg August Wallin traveled in the Middle East, where he collected material on Arabic dialects. Considered an eminent scholar by his contemporaries, he died an untimely death shortly after his seven-year journey...

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History of Art

Brushstroke and Emergence Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso

Herbert James D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226272016, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
176 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 38 colour plates, 4 halftones, 6 line drawings

No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic in...

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Europe

Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform

Berkowitz Carin

ISBN: HB: 9780226280394, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 13 halftones

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform – an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher. He was among the...

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Christianity

Europe

Mystic Fable, Volume Two The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

de Certeau Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780226209135, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 5 tables

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststru...

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Education

Unsettled Belonging Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11

Abu El-Haj Thea Renda

ISBN: PB: 9780226289465, ISBN: HB: 9780226289328, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

"Unsettled Belonging" tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, Thea Abu El-Haj examines citizenship as lived experience, dependent...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Mother Figured Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal

de la Cruz Deirdre

ISBN: PB: 9780226314914, ISBN: HB: 9780226314884, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Throughout history, Mary has inspired in a multitude of cultures around the world a deep affection, a desire to emulate her virtue, and a strong belief in the power o...

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Literary Criticism

Philip Sparrow Tells All Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist

Steward Samuel, Mulderig Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780226304687, ISBN: HB: 9780226304540, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Samuel Steward (1909-1993) was an English professor, a tattoo artist for the Hells Angels, a sexual adventurer who shared his considerable range of experiences with Alfred Kinsey, and a prolific writer of everything from scholarly articles to gay ero...

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