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Cold War Monks Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia

Ford Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9780300218565, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

How did the U.S. government make use of a "Buddhist policy" in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented ra...

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America

Seward's Folly A New Look at the Alaska Purchase

Farrow Lee A.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233034, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 maps

The Alaska Purchase – denounced at the time as "Seward's Folly" but now seen as a masterstroke – is well known in American history. But few know the rest of the story. This book aims to correct that. Lee Farrow offers here a detailed account of just...

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America

Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery

Ferring Shepley Carol

ISBN: PB: 9781883982867, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, January 2016
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 40 halftones

The history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of those who are buried there. The book is organized into sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals, which feature biographies of individuals. Besides...

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America

Captain and "the Cannibal" An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

Fairhead James

ISBN: HB: 9780300198775, Yale University Press, May 2015
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Mo...

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America

Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Fernandez Lilia

ISBN: PB: 9780226212845, ISBN: HB: 9780226244259, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 maps, 13 tables, 18 halftones

Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s an...

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General

America

Great Rent Wars New York, 1917-1929

Fogelson Robert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191721, Yale University Press, November 2013
504 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were trigg...

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America

Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900 Volume 1: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru

Forment Carlos A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101415, ISBN: HB: 9780226257150, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 maps, 19 figures, 11 tables

Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newsp...

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Christianity

America

Body of Faith A Biological History of Religion in America

Fuller Robert C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226025087, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm

The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. Yet newly emerging information about the biological body now makes it possible to supplement traditional scholarly models...

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America

Business & Economics

Great Leap Forward 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth

Field Alexander J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300188165, Yale University Press, July 2012
400 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 36 black&white illus.

This thoughtful re-examination of the history of U. S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that potential output grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and m...

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Anthropology

America

Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones

"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...

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