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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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Africa

Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa

Ludwig Carmen

ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones

"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...

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Ancient World

Postclassicisms

ISBN: PB: 9780226672311, ISBN: HB: 9780226672281, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

Made up of nine prominent scholars, The Postclassicisms Collective aims to map a space for theorizing and reflecting on the values attributed to antiquity. The product of these reflections, Postclassicisms takes up a set of questions about what it me...

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America

Trading Spaces The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism

Hart Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780226659817, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In "Trad...

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America

Troublemakers Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay

Gellman Erik S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226603926, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 72 colour plates, 175 halftones

What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it? "Troublemakers" fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to a decades-long struggle for justice in one American city. In di...

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Europe

Velvet Revolution 30 Years After

MacDonagh-Pajerova Monika, Sommerova Olga

ISBN: PB: 9788024644486, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
144 pp., 26x20.3 cm, 83 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia from November to December 1989, this book gathers dissident academics, a student l...

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America

Biography & Memoires

World of Juliette Kinzie Chicago before the Fire

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226664521, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Writing Underground Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024641256, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Road to September 1939 Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

Reinharz Jehuda, Shavit Yaacov

ISBN: PB: 9781684580071, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv were mindful of the plight of European Jews in the face of the Nazi threat during the 1930s. Drawing on a wide variety of memoirs, let...

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Middle East

Anthropology

Arabs A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

Mackintosh-Smith Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300251630, Yale University Press, December 2019
656 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 4 maps

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of...

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