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Women Studies

America

Trailblazers American Firsts / American Icons, Volume 1: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great

David Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9781940939797, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2021
877 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The past four hundred years have seen unprecedented growth in virtually every conceivable realm of life, from medicine to the arts, technology to finance. Far too often, however, when we think of the movers, shakers, and innovators behind these trans...

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America

Memory Lands King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

DeLucia Christine M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300248388, Yale University Press, January 2020
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as "King Philip's War", providing an alternative to "Pilgrim-centric" narratives that have conventionally domin...

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America

Biography & Memoires

World of Juliette Kinzie Chicago before the Fire

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226664521, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked...

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Rising Up from Indian Country The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226678580, ISBN: HB: 9780226428963, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 maps, 35 halftones

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as...

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America

Blueprint for War FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America

Dunn Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300244342, ISBN: HB: 9780300203530, Yale University Press, June 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus. in 8-pg insert

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under t...

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Military

America

Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War

Darda Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...

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Breaking White Supremacy Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300244335, Yale University Press, April 2019
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profoun...

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Political Science

America

How States Shaped Postwar America State Government and Urban Power

Dagen Bloom Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780226498317, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 2 line drawings

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and e...

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America

Business & Economics

Broken Bargain Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street

Day Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300223323, Yale University Press, February 2019
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping a...

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America

Bulls Markets Chicago's Basketball Business and the New Inequality

Dinces Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226583211, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 25 tables

The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners i...

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