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America

Jones Harvey Eleanor

ISBN: HB: 9780300187335, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 177 colour images, 37 black&white illus.

The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamo...

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America

Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Schleifer James T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226737041, ISBN: HB: 9780226737034, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
216 pp., 23x15 cm

One of the greatest books ever to be written on the United States, "Democracy in America" continues to find new readers who marvel at the lasting insights Alexis de Tocqueville had into our nation and its political culture. The work is, however, as c...

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Anthropology

America

Cuban Fiestas

Echevarria Roberto Gonzalez

ISBN: PB: 9780300177886, ISBN: HB: 9780300167061, Yale University Press, February 2012
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 17 colour illus.

In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls "watching them at...

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America

Capitalism Takes Command The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Zakim Michael, Kornblith Gary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226451107, ISBN: HB: 9780226451091, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 10 halftones, 4 line illus.

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, "Capitalism Takes Comma...

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Architecture

America

City of American Dreams A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919

Garb Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780226282107, ISBN: HB: 9780226282091, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 15 halftones

In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing v...

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General

America

Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America

Brown Richard Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780300184082, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements...

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America

City for Empire An Anchorage History, 1914-1941

Jones Preston

ISBN: PB: 9781602230842, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
214 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the U. S. Navy was engaged with Japan. Decades later, during...

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America

Political Science

Cruel and Unusual The Culture of Punishment in America

Cusac Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300168013, ISBN: HB: 9780300111743, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward...

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America

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Freund David M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262765, ISBN: HB: 9780226262758, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
526 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line illus.

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial...

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Asia

America

Colour of Paradise The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires

Lane Kris

ISBN: HB: 9780300161311, Yale University Press, March 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.

Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was – as it remains for all Muslims – the colour of Paradise, reserved for...

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