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Henry III 1207-1258

Carpenter David

ISBN: HB: 9780300238358, Yale University Press, May 2020
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to E...

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Christianity

America

Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

Phantom Image Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome

Crowley Patrick R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226648293, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...

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America

Civic Gifts Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State

Clemens Elisabeth S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226670836, ISBN: HB: 9780226559360, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 7 tables

In "Civic Gifts", Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despi...

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Anthropology

America

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

Colwell Chip

ISBN: PB: 9780226684444, ISBN: HB: 9780226298993, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects...

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Military

Nuclear Disasters Fukushima and Chernobyl

Claussen Angelika, Rosen Alex

ISBN: PB: 9786197458374, Bookport, Dixi Books Publishing, September 2019
160 pp., 21x13.5 cm

Nuclear power plant disasters threaten the entire planet. From so-called `developed' Russia to Japan, USA to France; in the aftermath of an accident, thousands of people are deprived of their basic human right to health and subjected to lies and supp...

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America

Technology & Engineering

None of Your Damn Business Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

Cappello Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226557748, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

You can hardly pass through customs at an airport today without having your picture taken and your fingertips scanned, that information then stored in an archive you'll never see. Nor can you use your home's smart technology without wondering what, e...

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America

Cul de Sac Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue

Cheney Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226679259, ISBN: HB: 9780226079356, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkab...

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Asia

Down and Out in Saigon Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City

Cherry Haydon

ISBN: PB: 9780300218251, Yale University Press, July 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals – a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a p...

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Africa

African States since Independence Order, Development, and Democracy

Christensen Darin, Laitin David D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226614, Yale University Press, July 2019
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 85 black&white illus.

Authors Christensen and Laitin argue that an interplay of geographic, historical, and demographic factors undergird sub-Saharan states' post?independence struggles to eradicate poverty, establish democratic accountability, and quell civil unrest. The...

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