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Confederate Cities The Urban South during the Civil War Era

Slap Andrew L., Towers Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780226300207, ISBN: HB: 9780226300177, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted...

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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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Conceived in Doubt Religion and Politics in the New American Nation

Porterfield Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780226271965, ISBN: HB: 9780226675121, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
264 pp., 23x15 cm

Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition – and in spite of evangelicalism...

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Captain and "the Cannibal" An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

Fairhead James

ISBN: HB: 9780300198775, Yale University Press, May 2015
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Mo...

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Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures

Lavin Lucianne, Grant-Costa Paul, Volpe Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300212587, ISBN: HB: 9780300186642, Yale University Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 37 colour illus., 235 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking volume on the rich 13,000-plus-year history and culture of Connecticut's indigenous peoples More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written record...

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Crisis of the Wasteful Nation Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America

Tyrrell Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780226197760, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones

Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as...

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City for Children Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950

Gutman Marta

ISBN: HB: 9780226311289, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 120 halftones, 14 line drawings

American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast c...

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Changing Wind Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta

Venet Wendy Hamand

ISBN: HB: 9780300192162, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. "A Changing Wind" is the first histo...

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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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Colorado Doctrine Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier

Schorr David

ISBN: HB: 9780300134476, Yale University Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the "appropriation doctrine", a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid...

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