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Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918
ISBN: PB: 9780226756363, ISBN: HB: 9780226756226, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 10 tables
Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. But, as Reconstruction came to an end and legal and social discrimination against African Americans became widespread, civil rights...
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City Creative The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America
ISBN: HB: 9780226727226, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 145 colour plates
In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking – small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal. But the projec...
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Cycling City Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s
ISBN: PB: 9780226758800, ISBN: HB: 9780226210919, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles – where they belong, how they should be ridde...
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Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
ISBN: PB: 9780226760742, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice...
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City on a Hill A History of American Exceptionalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300229752, Yale University Press, April 2020
392 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 19 black&white illus.
In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase "City on a Hill", from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the history of Winthro...
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£25,00
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Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226691428, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
496 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the histor...
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Crap A History of Cheap Stuff in America
ISBN: HB: 9780226664354, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 105 halftones
Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap. Abundant cheap stuff is about as American as...
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£23,99
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Civic Gifts Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
ISBN: PB: 9780226670836, ISBN: HB: 9780226559360, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 7 tables
In "Civic Gifts", Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despi...
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Clashing over Commerce A History of US Trade Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226678443, ISBN: HB: 9780226398969, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
862 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 21 line drawings
Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevit...
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Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs
ISBN: HB: 9780226647487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...
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