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America

God's Businessmen Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War

Hammond Sarah Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780226509778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II....

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America

Polarizers Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

Rosenfeld Sam

ISBN: HB: 9780226407258, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of governme...

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Europe

Edge of Irony Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226566177, ISBN: HB: 9780226054421, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 26 halftones

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of...

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America

Looking Forward Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America

Pietruska Jamie L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475004, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possi...

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Business & Economics

America

How Our Days Became Numbered Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual

Bouk Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226564869, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers", American capitalism embraced "risk" – and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predi...

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Anthropology

Europe

Two Lenins A Brief Anthropology of Time

Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai

ISBN: PB: 9780997367539, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
112 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, "Two Lenins" is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical explo...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 2 A Narrative History from 1877

Dailey Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226300825, ISBN: HB: 9780226300795, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 haltfones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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Media Studies

Africa

Gogo Breeze Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

Englund Harri

ISBN: PB: 9780226498935, ISBN: HB: 9780226498768, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy ove...

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Education

America

American Academic Cultures A History of Higher Education

Mattingly Paul H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226505268, ISBN: HB: 9780226505121, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it's...

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Europe

They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45

Mayer Milton

ISBN: PB: 9780226525839, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg". That's Milton Mayer, writing in a...

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