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Who Speaks for the Negro?
ISBN: PB: 9780300205107, Yale University Press, December 2014
460 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Mal...
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£20,00
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Different Democracy American Government in a 31-Country Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780300198089, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democra...
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£19,99
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Between Mao and McCarthy Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
ISBN: HB: 9780226193564, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco...
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£36,00
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Crisis of the Wasteful Nation Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America
ISBN: HB: 9780226197760, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones
Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as...
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£32,00
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Hercules in the Cradle War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867
ISBN: HB: 9780226181578, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 line drawings, 18 tables
Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. This stupendous evolution was far from a foregone conclusion at independence. T...
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£34,00
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Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer
ISBN: PB: 9780226214016, ISBN: HB: 9780226684482, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advoc...
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£24,00
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American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781611685107, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2014
478 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials...
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£32,00
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Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights
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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£19,00
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Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886
ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones
On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...
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£37,50
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Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston
ISBN: PB: 9780226156460, ISBN: HB: 9780226156323, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings
Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door.   In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School,...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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