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America

Beyond Redemption Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War

Emberton Carole

ISBN: PB: 9780226269993, ISBN: HB: 9780226024271, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worke...

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America

Between Mao and McCarthy Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years

Brooks Charlotte

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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America

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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America

Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894

Torres-Rouff David Samuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300141238, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angel...

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America

Black Patriots and Loyalists Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence

Gilbert Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226101552, ISBN: HB: 9780226293073, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm

We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population – African Americans would still be bound in sl...

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America

Borderlines in Borderlands James Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1821

Stagg J. C. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205541, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have assumed Madison's motive in sending agents into the Spanish borderlands...

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America

Barksdale's Charge The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

Tucker Phillip Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781612002279, Casemate, August 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

<p>On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms of how the conflict had turned a corner – from per...

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America

Body of Faith A Biological History of Religion in America

Fuller Robert C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226025087, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm

The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. Yet newly emerging information about the biological body now makes it possible to supplement traditional scholarly models...

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America

Buffalo Bill in Bologna The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922

Rydell Robert W., Kroes Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226007120, ISBN: HB: 9780226732428, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones

When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach o...

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America

Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 Fourth Edition

Morgan Edmund S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923420, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
240 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89", Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that th...

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