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Culture Studies

Of Bridges A Poetic and Philosophical Account

Harrison Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226735290, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 73 halftones

"Always", wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live". Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they...

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Culture Studies

America

War for the Soul of America A History of the Culture Wars (Second Edition)

Hartman Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226621913, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When it was published in 2015, Andrew Hartman's history of the culture wars was widely praised for its compelling and even-handed account of the way they developed and came to define American politics as the twentieth century drew to its close. Recei...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Witch A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300238679, Yale University Press, September 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

<p>The witch came to prominence – and often a painful death – in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient worl...

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Culture Studies

Chocolate and Blackness A Cultural History

Hackenesch Silke

ISBN: PB: 9783593507767, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2018
187 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 17 halftones

This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate – the economic realitie...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Lima A Cultural and Literary History

Higgins James

ISBN: PB: 9781902669984, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Formerly the viceregal capital of Spain's vast South American empire, Lima is today a sprawling metropolis struggling to cope with a population of eight million. Located on the coast between the Andean foothills and the Pacific...

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General

Culture Studies

New York's New Edge Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

Halle David, Tiso Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226379067, ISBN: HB: 9780226032405, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones, 6 figures, 1 table

The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighb...

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Culture Studies

What Have Plants Ever Done for Us? Western Civilization in Fifty Plants

Harris Stephen A.

ISBN: HB: 9781851244478, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

When did the British Government become the world's largest drugs pusher? What tree is frequently used to treat cancer? Which everyday condiment is the most widely traded spice on the planet? Plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Fro...

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America

Culture Studies

Riotous Flesh Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

Haynes April R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226284620, ISBN: HB: 9780226284590, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death".Riotous Flesh" explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and p...

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Culture Studies

General

Insane Chicago Way The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia

Hagedorn John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226232935, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 12 tables

"The Insane Chicago Way" is the untold story of a daring plan by Chicago gangs in the 1990s to create a Spanish Mafia – and why it failed. John M. Hagedorn traces how Chicago Latino gang leaders, following in Al Capone's footsteps, built a sophistica...

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Culture Studies

General

Neighborhood Technologies Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

Harks Tobias, Vehlken Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783037345238, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, June 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

"Neighborhood Technologies" expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across many different disciplines. Up...

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