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Peculiar Places A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity
ISBN: PB: 9780226696881, ISBN: HB: 9780226696911, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones
Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white nei...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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She Being Dead Yet Speaketh The Franklin Family Papers
ISBN: PB: 9780866986236, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones, 40 figures
On Black Bartholomew's Day – August 24, 1662 – nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the...
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£48,00
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Skull Collectors Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead
ISBN: PB: 9780226760575, ISBN: HB: 9780226233482, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a...
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Light and Flame
ISBN: HB: 9780300252200, Yale University Press, November 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 8 maps
Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Drawing on the latest research, Butterwick vividly portrays the turbulence the Commonwealt...
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£30,00
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Surviving Genocide Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
ISBN: PB: 9780300255362, ISBN: HB: 9780300218121, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.
In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts...
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Dead of the Irish Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300123821, Yale University Press, November 2020
704 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 – a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governin...
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Emperor's New Road China and the Project of the Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300244588, Yale University Press, November 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
China's Belt and Road Initiative is the world's most ambitious and misunderstood geoeconomic vision. To carry out President Xi Jinping's flagship foreign-policy effort, China promises to spend over one trillion dollars for new ports, railways, fiber-...
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Lakota America A New History of Indigenous Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300255256, ISBN: HB: 9780300215953, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty?first century. Pekka Hنmنlنinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter?gatherers and reveals how the...
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Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
ISBN: PB: 9780226758329, ISBN: HB: 9780226341330, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 59 halftones
At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business. Newspapers soon saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen dailies apiece....
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£34,00
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Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries
ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...
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