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America

History in the Making

Elliott J. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300186383, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a historian of Spain, Europe, and the...

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America

Culture Studies

Modernist America Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Pells Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181739, ISBN: HB: 9780300115048, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world h...

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Media Studies

America

Theater of the Mind Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama

Verma Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226853512, ISBN: HB: 9780226853505, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a "theater of the mind". This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In "Theater...

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America

Endowed by Our Creator The Birth of Religious Freedom in America

Meyerson Michael I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166323, Yale University Press, June 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Was...

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America

Culture Studies

Statue of Liberty A Transatlantic Story

Berenson Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300149500, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

A universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York harbour, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty wou...

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Anthropology

America

Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America

Safier Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226733623, ISBN: HB: 9780226733555, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 59 halftones, 20 colour illus.

Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equ...

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America

Travel

Finding the Arctic History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay

Sturm Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781602231634, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 maps, 193 colour illus.

The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In "Finding the Arctic", the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects...

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Political Science

America

American Diplomacy Fiftieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition

Kennan George F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226431482, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
224 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm

For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of a...

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America

General

Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

O'Malley Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226629384, ISBN: HB: 9780226629377, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of G...

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Political Science

America

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Smith Steven B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181234, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and various occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political...

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