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Ecology

America

Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

Kelly Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781602232990, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 1 map

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state's dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildl...

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Europe

Light in Germany Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

Reed T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421834, ISBN: HB: 9780226205106, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Germany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, Jim Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-ce...

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Asia

Rural Modern Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China

Merkel-Hess Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780226383279, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical...

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America

American Guides The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture

Griswold Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226357836, ISBN: HB: 9780226357669, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings, 45 tables

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate – and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a re...

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America

Nut Country Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Miller Edward H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421216, ISBN: HB: 9780226205380, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today". That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city th...

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Political Science

America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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Europe

First Circumnavigators Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

Kelsey Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780300217780, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the fi...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Marie-Antoinette

Delalex Helene, Maral Alexandre, Milovanovic Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9781606064832, Getty Publications, July 2016
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 225 colour illus.

An intimate glimpse into the public and private world of one of history's most famous – and infamous – queens Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became...

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America

Revolutions Without Borders The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

Polasky Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780300219845, ISBN: HB: 9780300208948, Yale University Press, July 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights...

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America

American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187328, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstruc...

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