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Up North St. Louis's Summer Colonies on Lake Huron in the Golden Age of Travel

Brookes Douglas Scott

ISBN: PB: 9781883982744, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, May 2013
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 1 map, 80 halftones

For everyone from school age to professional, there is no greater pleasure than the summer vacation, the chance to pack our suitcases and escape from workaday life and domestic chores; we look forward to it during the long slog and count down the day...

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West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire

Purcell Munley Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9781589662124, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2013
100 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

In early 1947 residents of the west side of Carbondale, Pennsylvania began noticing a peculiar steam escaping from the ground. An investigation into this phenomenon revealed that Carbondale was slowly but steadily being destroyed by a burning inferno...

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Slaves Waiting for Sale Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

McInnis Maurie D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055060, ISBN: HB: 9780226559339, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 125 halftones, 12 colour illus.

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culmi...

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Long View Dispatches on Alaska History

Coen Ross

ISBN: PB: 9780974922171, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
225 pp., 20x12.7 cm, 53 halftones

Too often the history of a place is reduced to a list of dates and a handful of major events, ignoring the daily stories that help shape its legacy".In The Long View", Ross Coen stops to explore the smaller yet extremely meaningful moments in Alaska'...

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West of Sex Making Mexican America, 1900-1930

Mitchell Pablo

ISBN: PB: 9780226532691, ISBN: HB: 9780226532684, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In "West of Sex", Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and crim...

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Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California

Brooks Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9780226004181, ISBN: HB: 9780226075976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 halftones, 9 line illus.

Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California...

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Buffalo Bill in Bologna The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922

Rydell Robert W., Kroes Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226007120, ISBN: HB: 9780226732428, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones

When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach o...

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Biography & Memoires

Dreaming in French The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

Kaplan Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780226054872, ISBN: HB: 9780226424385, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

A year in Paris... since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision – and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light".Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives o...

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Riches, Rivals and Radicals 100 Years of Museums in America

Schwarzer Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781933253756, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, March 2013
263 pp., 29.2x23 cm, 200 colour illus.

Highly illustrated, exhaustively researched, and eminently readable, this new edition of "Riches, Rivals and Radicals" describes the rise of the museum in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present – a story that parallels hist...

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Republic Afloat Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America

Raffety Matthew Taylor

ISBN: HB: 9780226924007, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at...

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