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Back to the Breast Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America

Martucci Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226288031, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present. While it would be easy to see this reemergence as simply part of the naturalism movement of the...

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America

Asia First China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism

Mao Joyce

ISBN: HB: 9780226252711, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

After Japanese bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the American right stood at a crossroads. Generally isolationist, conservatives needed to forge their own foreign policy agenda if they wanted to remain politically viable. When Mao Zedong established the People...

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Anthropology

America

Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights

Metcalfe Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781602232396, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alas...

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America

History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 2, 1970-1986

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213514, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 line drawings, 48 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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History of the Federal Reserve Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969

Meltzer Allan H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226520025, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
696 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 line drawings, 33 tables

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of the subject ever conducted. Its first volume, published to widespread critical acclaim in 2003, spanned...

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America

Nature and Nurture of Love From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America

Marga Vicedo

ISBN: PB: 9780226215136, ISBN: HB: 9780226020556, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones, 4 line illus.

The notion that maternal care and love will determine a child's emotional well-being and future personality has become ubiquitous. In countless stories and movies we find that the problems of the protagonists – anything from the fear of romantic comm...

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America

Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Political Science

America

Think Tanks in America

Medvetz Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226143668, ISBN: HB: 9780226517292, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 1 map, 12 line illus.

Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policymakers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are...

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America

American Capitals A Historical Geography

Montes Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226080482, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 6 line drawings, 42 tables

State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national identity. Learning them by heart is a rite of passage in grade school, a pedagogical exercise that emphasizes the importance of committin...

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America

Accidental Diarist A History of the Daily Planner in America

McCarthy Molly A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226033358, ISBN: HB: 9780226033211, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 34 halftones

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans have been navel-gazing since nearly the beginning of the republic. The daily planner – variously called th...

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