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Military

Bloody Engagements John R. Kelso's Civil War

Kelso John R., Grasso Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300210965, Yale University Press, April 2017
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The first edited edition of a Union soldier's remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War. While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of th...

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America

Music

Blackface Nation Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925

Roberts Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226451640, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in "B...

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America

Beheading the Saint Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec

Zubrzycki Genevieve

ISBN: PB: 9780226391687, ISBN: HB: 9780226391540, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 54 halftones, 1 line drawing

Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province". Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services – a transformation rooted in the "Qui...

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Criminology

America

Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution

Eckstein Arthur M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221183, Yale University Press, February 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jon...

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Education

America

Building a New Educational State Foundations, Schools, and the American South

Malczewski Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226394626, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Building a New Educational State" examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and refo...

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Women Studies

America

Big Bosses A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America

McDowell Altemus Althea

ISBN: PB: 9780226423623, ISBN: HB: 9780226423593, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 halftones

Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, "Big Bosses", she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) empl...

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America

Blood Runs Green The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

O'Brien Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9780226379999, ISBN: HB: 9780226248950, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and...

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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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America

Boundaries of the State in US History

Sparrow James T., Novak William J., Sawyer Stephen W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226277783, ISBN: HB: 9780226277646, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The question of how the American state defines its power has become central to a range of historical topics, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Yet c...

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America

Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860

Schermerhorn Jack Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780300192001, Yale University Press, August 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Calvin Schermerhorn's provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demo...

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