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Forgotten Revolution The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils

Gollner Andras

ISBN: PB: 9781551647159, ISBN: HB: 9781551647173, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After the ravages of World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest was engulfed by revolution and marauding foreign armies in 1919. Factory workers, disillusioned ex-soldiers, landless peasants, artists, and intellectuals bega...

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America

General

Fire That Time Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation

Mohabir Nalini, Cummings Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9781551647371, ISBN: HB: 9781551647395, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, in one of the most significant black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University), before occupying the computer c...

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Business & Economics

Europe

From Old Regime to Industrial State A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I

Tilly Richard H., Kopsidis Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226725437, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 23 line drawings, 66 tables

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead co...

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Europe

Field of Cloth of Gold

Richardson Glenn

ISBN: PB: 9780300248029, ISBN: HB: 9780300148862, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy and mystery. Throughout most of the late...

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Military

First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader

Fritz Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300251463, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus., 10 maps

After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Fuhrer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed...

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Africa

Anthropology

For Money and Elders Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya

Blunt Robert W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226655758, ISBN: HB: 9780226655611, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch. Yet efforts from critics and academics to diagnose...

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America

Fire, Pestilence, and Death St. Louis, 1849

Gordon Christopher Alan

ISBN: PB: 9781883982935, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones

In 1849, St. Louis was little more than a frontier town, swelling under the pressure of rapid population growth, creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure, and often trapped within the confines of ignorance and prejudice. The cholera epidemic...

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Africa

Frontiers in the Gilded Age Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917

Offenburger Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300225877, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop beyond the United States where Americans chased capitalist dreams. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines ho...

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Asia

Faking Liberties Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan

Baraka Thomas Jolyon

ISBN: PB: 9780226618821, ISBN: HB: 9780226618791, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Religious freedom is a founding tenet of the United States, and it has frequently been used to justify policies towards other nations. Such was the case in 1945 when Americans occupied Japan following World War II. Though the Japanese constitution ha...

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Political Science

Law

Federal Impeachment Process A Constitutional and Historical Analysis (Third Edition)

Gerhardt Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226554839, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Twenty years after President Clinton's impeachment proceedings, talk of impeachment is again in the air. But what are the grounds for impeaching a sitting president? Who is subject to impeachment? Is impeachment effective as a safeguard against presi...

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