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Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Wells Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780300217384, Yale University Press, October 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history – only to realize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begun With a long and colorful family history of def...

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America

Sovereignty for Survival American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination

Allison James Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300206692, Yale University Press, October 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native...

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America

Concrete Revolution Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation

Sneddon Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226284316, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams,...

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America

Back to the Breast Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America

Martucci Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226288031, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present. While it would be easy to see this reemergence as simply part of the naturalism movement of the...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Canfield Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226298375, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 108 colour plates, 1 line drawing

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer – he was also...

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America

Legendary Detective The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

Walton John

ISBN: HB: 9780226308265, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

"I'm in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don't want to take to the cops". That's Raymond Chandler's "Philip Marlowe", succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-n...

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America

Married to the Empire Three Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864

Rabow-Edling Susanna

ISBN: HB: 9781602232648, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map

The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst...

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America

Other Americans in Paris Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324463, ISBN: HB: 9780226306889, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 11 line drawings

While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember th...

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America

Nation of Neighborhoods Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

Looker Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226290317, ISBN: HB: 9780226073989, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 1 line drawing

Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In "A Nation of Neighborhoods", Benja...

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America

American Census A Social History

Anderson Margo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300195422, Yale University Press, September 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, includ...

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