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Legend of the Middle Ages Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Brague Remi

ISBN: PB: 9780226070810, ISBN: HB: 9780226070803, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Remi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinke...

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Political Science

America

Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present

Clemens Elisabeth S., Guthrie Doug

ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...

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Business & Economics

America

Founding Choices American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Irwin Douglas A., Sylla Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226384757, ISBN: HB: 9780226384740, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 17 line illus.

The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to com...

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Europe

Terror of Natural Right Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184395, ISBN: HB: 9780226184388, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
350 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 halftones, 2 line illus.

Natural right – the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin – is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right", Dan Edelstein argues...

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Europe

Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness

Wortman Richard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226907758, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law. Richard S. Wortman here traces the first professional class of legal...

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Culture Studies

Africa

Clicko The Wild Dancing Bushman

Parsons Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226647425, ISBN: HB: 9780226647418, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh – whose stage name was Clicko – performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "...

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Europe

Enlightenment A Genealogy

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184494, ISBN: HB: 9780226184470, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
184 pp., 21.5x13 cm

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first em...

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Middle East

Forgotten Frontier A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier

Hess Andrew C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226330310, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 9 figures, 4 tables, 1 halftone

The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Abigail and John Adams The Americanization of Sensibility

Barker-Benfield G. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226037431, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, th...

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America

City for Empire An Anchorage History, 1914-1941

Jones Preston

ISBN: PB: 9781602230842, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
214 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the U. S. Navy was engaged with Japan. Decades later, during...

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