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Statue of Liberty A Transatlantic Story

Berenson Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300149500, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

A universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York harbour, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty wou...

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Sound Diplomacy Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920

Gienow-Hecht Jessica C. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226292168, ISBN: HB: 9780226292151, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones, 6 line illus.

The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1910, the United State...

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Savages and Scoundrels The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire Through Indian Territory

Develder Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300181852, Yale University Press, March 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

<p>What really happened in the early days of the American nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book t...

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Slaveholders' Union Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic

Cleve George William

ISBN: PB: 9780226846705, ISBN: HB: 9780226846682, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested polit...

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Law

State as a Work of Art The Cultural Origins of the Constitution

Slauter Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226761961, ISBN: HB: 9780226761954, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
392 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 5 line illus.

The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate, so inspired, and so monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial n...

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Anthropology

Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America

Adams Gretchen A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226005430, ISBN: HB: 9780226005416, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to de...

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Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226750255, ISBN: HB: 9780226750248, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
486 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 16 halftones

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts – indeed, highly respected experts – authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and w...

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Architecture

America

Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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