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General

Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America

O'Malley Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226629384, ISBN: HB: 9780226629377, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of G...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

Reading the World Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age

Franklin-Brown Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226260686, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
424 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 21 halftones, 5 colour illus.

The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called it the "century of the encyclopedias". Variously referred to as a "speculum", "thesaurus", or "imago mundi" – the term encyclopedia was no...

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History of Art

Europe

English Prize The Capture of the Westmorland, an Episode of the Grand Tour

Sanchez-Jauregu Alpanes Maria Dolores, Wilcox Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300176056, Yale University Press, May 2012
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

Laden with works of art acquired by young British travellers on the Grand Tour in Italy, the British merchant ship Westmorland sailed from the Italian port of Livorno before being captured by French naval vessels and escorted to Malaga in southern Sp...

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Political Science

America

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Smith Steven B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181234, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and various occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political...

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Current Affairs

Libya The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

Pargeter Alison

ISBN: HB: 9780300139327, Yale University Press, May 2012
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus.

For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His eccentric leadership as the nation's "Brother Leader", his repressive regime, sponsorship of terrorist violence, unique vision of the...

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Military

Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 1: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781907677663, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2012
472 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 140 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

On 24 December 1943, the Red Army launched the first of a series of winter offensives against the German Army Group South under von Manstein, the overall object of which was to liberate western Ukraine from occupation. This first offensive is known t...

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America

History

American Sunshine Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Freund Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226262819, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25x22 cm, 29 halftones

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these...

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America

In Hock Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression

Woloson Wendy A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226905686, ISBN: HB: 9780226905679, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 39 halftones

The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, "In Hock" demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic t...

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Medieval

Christianity

Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535197, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 32 halftones, 4 line illus.

When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella – and des...

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America

Sound Diplomacy Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920

Gienow-Hecht Jessica C. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226292168, ISBN: HB: 9780226292151, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones, 6 line illus.

The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1910, the United State...

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