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On the Spirit of Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226794303, ISBN: HB: 9780226588988, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
334 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 tables
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such mea...
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Gossip Men J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation
ISBN: HB: 9780226624822, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in the midcentury United States, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover's FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illega...
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£28,00
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Power and Time Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History
ISBN: HB: 9780226481623, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Da...
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£36,00
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Lines of Thought Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind
ISBN: HB: 9780226743080, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables
We think with objects – we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think wi...
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Unfinished Arab Spring Micro-Dynamics of Revolts between Change and Continuity
ISBN: HB: 9781909942486, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, August 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The aim of this volume is to adopt an original analytical approach in explaining various dynamics at work behind the Arab Spring, through giving voice to local dynamics and legacies rather than concentrating on debates about paradigms. It highlights...
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£40,00
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Resistible Rise of Antisemitism Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland
ISBN: PB: 9781684580095, ISBN: HB: 9781684580088, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...
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£32,00
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£68,00
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Empires of the Atlantic World Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
ISBN: PB: 9780300253399, Yale University Press, March 2020
608 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 43 black&white illus.
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatil...
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£12,99
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Scots and Catalans Union and Disunion
ISBN: PB: 9780300253382, Yale University Press, March 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 3 maps, 2 black&white figures
A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the...
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Bankrupt in America A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226679563, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 8 tables
In 2005, more than two million Americans – six out of every 1,000 people – filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In "Ban...
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£44,00
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Reformations The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
ISBN: PB: 9780300240030, Yale University Press, October 2018
920 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 155 black&white illus.
<p>A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vi...
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