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Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886

Donahue Katherine C., Switzer David C.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones

On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...

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Biography & Memoires

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Seventeen Years in Alaska A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat

Johnson Albin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232112, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2014
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yak...

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Sounds of Capitalism Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226151625, ISBN: HB: 9780226791159, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 24 halftones

From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since at least the 1920s, songs originally written for commercial...

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Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect A New History

Glanville Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226076928, ISBN: HB: 9780226076898, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi's forces. In invoking the "responsibility to protect", the resolution draws on the p...

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Biography & Memoires

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Sun Chief The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (Second Edition)

Talayesva Don C., Simmons Leo W., Sakiestewa Gilbert Matthew, Hine Robert V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191035, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in 1942, "Sun Chief" is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how...

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Sacred Relics Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America

Barnett Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9780226059600, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past – often called "association items" – may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued b...

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Slaves Waiting for Sale Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

McInnis Maurie D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055060, ISBN: HB: 9780226559339, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 125 halftones, 12 colour illus.

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culmi...

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Political Science

Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Landis Dauber Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226923499, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
378 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 23 halftones, 1 line illus.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to...

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Culture Studies

Stories of Our Collection Stories of Our Collection

ISBN: HB: 9780911028270, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
200 pp., 30x23 cm, colour throughout illus.

To mark its 125th anniversary, the Newberry has assembled one hundred and twenty-five of its most significant objects in one beautifully illustrated volume. Arranged in order to tell both the story of the library as an institution and its collecting...

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Political Science

State and the Stork The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Hoff Derek S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347622, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shif...

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