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American Indians Fourth Edition

Hagan William T., Cobb Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226312392, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 20 halftones

William Hagan's classic "American Indians" has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arri...

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America

American Georgics Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land

Hagenstein Edwin C., Gregg Sara M., Donahue Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300188042, Yale University Press, October 2012
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 33 black&white illus.

From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing fro...

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America

Political Science

State and the Stork The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Hoff Derek S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347622, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shif...

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Business & Economics

Building a Market The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960

Harris Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226317663, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 62 halftones, 5 line illus.

Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable t...

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America

Media Studies

What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

Hendershot Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226326788, ISBN: HB: 9780226326771, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones, 3 line illus.

The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and '60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridat...

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America

Political Essay on the Island of Cuba A Critical Edition

Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226465678, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
496 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 115 tables

The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early nineteenth-century proved foundational to the fields of botany, geography, and geology. But his visit to Cuba during this time yielded observation...

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America

Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty

Harris J. William

ISBN: PB: 9780300171327, Yale University Press, March 2011
240 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 22 black&white illus.

In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than 500 'Free Negros' in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of GBP 1000 (about $200,000), possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slave owner himself, Jeremiah was...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher

Harris Leonard, Molesworth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226317779, ISBN: HB: 9780226317762, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that "the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem". Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promot...

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Political Science

America

Myth of American Exceptionalism

Hodgson Godfrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300164190, Yale University Press, March 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns Godfrey Hodgson in this provocative book. Hodgson, a shrewd and high...

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America

Pilgrims New World Settlers and the Call of Home

Hardman Moore Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300164053, Yale University Press, February 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book uncovers what might seem to be a dark side of the American dream: the New World from the viewpoint of those who decided not to stay. At the core of the volume are the life-histories of people who left New England during the British Civil Wa...

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