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Political Science

Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...

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History of Art

Painting with Fire Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object

Hunter Matthew C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226390253, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 68 halftones,

"Painting with Fire" shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century – and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the...

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Anthropology

Participant A Century of Participation in Four Stories

Kelty Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226666761, ISBN: HB: 9780226666624, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings

Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposi...

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Middle East

Partitioning Palestine British Policymaking at the End of Empire

Sinanoglou Penny

ISBN: HB: 9780226665788, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

"Partitioning Palestine" is the first history of the ideological and political forces that led to the idea of partition – that is, a division of territory and sovereignty – in British mandate Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. Inve...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome

Crowley Patrick R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226648293, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...

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Ecology

Phylogenetic Ecology A History, Critique, and Remodeling

Swenson Nathan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226671505, ISBN: HB: 9780226671475, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 10 tables

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they have come to discover the field's power to illuminate present ecological patterns and processes. Ecolo...

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Geography

History

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 1 A Critical Edition

von Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226651385, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
632 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 64 tables

Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1...

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Geography

History

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 2 A Critical Edition

von Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226651552, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 180 tables

Volume 2 of this critical edition includes the translation of Volumes 3 and 4 of the second, revised French edition of Alexander von Humboldt's "Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne" from 1825 to 1827 as well as notes, supplements, i...

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General

Africa

Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa

Ludwig Carmen

ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones

"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...

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Ancient World

Postclassicisms

ISBN: PB: 9780226672311, ISBN: HB: 9780226672281, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

Made up of nine prominent scholars, The Postclassicisms Collective aims to map a space for theorizing and reflecting on the values attributed to antiquity. The product of these reflections, Postclassicisms takes up a set of questions about what it me...

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