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American Zion The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War

Shalev Eran

ISBN: PB: 9780300205909, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times to about 1830, numerous Ameri...

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Outside the Gates of Eden The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Bacon Hales Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226313153, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
496 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 halftones

Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through "Outside the Gates of Eden", Peter Bacon Hales's ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic ag...

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City Water, City Life Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

Smith Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780226151595, ISBN: HB: 9780226022512, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones

A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the peopl...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Seventeen Years in Alaska A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat

Johnson Albin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232112, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2014
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yak...

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Political Science

America

How the States Shaped the Nation American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000

Springer Melanie Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226114217, ISBN: HB: 9780226114187, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 20 tables

The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that...

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Puerto Rican Citizen History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City

Thomas Lorrin

ISBN: PB: 9780226151762, ISBN: HB: 9780226796086, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's m...

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Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City

Schultz Nancy Lusignan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205893, ISBN: HB: 9780300118469, Yale University Press, March 2014
288 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 24 illus.

In the spring of 1824 in the young capital city of Washington, D. C. , Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sic...

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Biography & Memoires

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My Bondage and My Freedom

Douglass Frederick, Blight David W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190595, Yale University Press, March 2014
432 pp., 21x14 cm

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War...

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Frontier Seaport Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot

Cangany Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226096704, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables

Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the cent...

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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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