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Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

Sewell William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226770468, ISBN: HB: 9780226770321, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

There is little doubt that the political revolutions of the eighteenth century changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality find such fertile ground in France? What is the relationship between political ideas and econ...

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America

Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918

Jenkins Jeffery A., Peck Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780226756363, ISBN: HB: 9780226756226, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 10 tables

Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. But, as Reconstruction came to an end and legal and social discrimination against African Americans became widespread, civil rights...

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Africa

Darfur Allegory

Mustafa Abusharaf Rogaia

ISBN: PB: 9780226761725, ISBN: HB: 9780226761695, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's pol...

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America

Appalachia as Contested Borderland of the Early Modern Atlantic, 1528-1715

Borchard Kimberly C.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986328, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, March 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

This monograph explores the European obsession with Appalachian mineral resources during the years between 1528 and 1715, reframing Appalachian history within the fields of Latin American, early American, and Atlantic history. While political activis...

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Business & Economics

America

Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City

Jenkins Destin

ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...

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Buddhism

Asia

Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957

Thapar Romila

ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones

In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...

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Africa

The Africa List

Accounts and Drawings from the Underground The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book

Kentridge William, Morris Rosalind C.

ISBN: HB: 9780857428523, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 colour plates

In "Accounts and Drawings from Underground", published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporat...

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Africa

The Africa List

Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966-1985

La Guma Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780857427892, Seagull Books, March 2021
624 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

My Father, the Germans and I Essays, Lectures, Interviews

Becker Jurek

ISBN: PB: 9780857428240, ISBN: HB: 9781906497477, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 22.9x14 cm

Jurek Becker (1937-1997) is best known for his novel "Jacob the Liar", which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the Lodz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfic...

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Asia

Nine-Tenths of the Law Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia

Lund Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780300251074, Yale University Press, February 2021
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The old aphorism "possession is nine-tenths of the law" is particularly relevant in Indonesia, which has seen a string of regime changes and a shifting legal landscape for property claims. Ordinary people struggle to legalize their possessions and cl...

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