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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 41 September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

Cohn Ellen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203745, Yale University Press, July 2014
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm

After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin's official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. Great Britain refused to negotiate a commercial agreement, and Congress failed to act on the draft treaties of c...

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Changing Wind Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta

Venet Wendy Hamand

ISBN: HB: 9780300192162, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. "A Changing Wind" is the first histo...

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Robert Morris's Folly The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder

Smith Ryan K.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196047, Yale University Press, July 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

In 1798 Robert Morris – 'financier of the American Revolution', confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator – plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the Unit...

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Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Fernandez Lilia

ISBN: PB: 9780226212845, ISBN: HB: 9780226244259, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 maps, 13 tables, 18 halftones

Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s an...

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Terror Courts America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Bravin Jess

ISBN: PB: 9780300205596, ISBN: HB: 9780300189209, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...

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Emperor of Liberty Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Cogliano Francis D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179934, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps

This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers a compelling reinterpretation of his attitudes and accomplishments as a statesman during America's early nationhood. Beginning with Jefferson's disastrous st...

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Imagining Black America

Wayne Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300197815, Yale University Press, May 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In "Imagining Black America", Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from t...

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Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Rodgers Daniel T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226136233, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
336 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heri...

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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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Harnessed to the Pole Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909

Nickerson Sheila

ISBN: PB: 9781602232235, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 15 maps

In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those...

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