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Rivall Friendship, by Bridget Manningham
ISBN: PB: 9780866986335, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, June 2021
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The manuscript for Rivall Friendship was first acquired by the Newberry Library in 1937. At the time of the acquisition, the author of this seventeenth-century romance was anonymous. Scholar Jean R. Brink now suggests, based on dating of the manuscri...
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£96,00
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Russ-Ukraine-Russia Scenes from the Cultural History of Russian Religiosity
ISBN: PB: 9788024635804, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2021
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! An outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a great deal of media attention when he ironically dedica...
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£18,00
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Restricted Data The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226020389, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered...
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Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 1
ISBN: HB: 9780226688787, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
632 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 1 halftone
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic nation...
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Reconstruction Amendments The Essential Documents, Volume 2
ISBN: HB: 9780226688954, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm
Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution – together known as the Reconstruction Amendments – abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of bas...
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Realtime Making Digital China
ISBN: PB: 9782889153459, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Realtime is an investigation into China's digital and urban infrastructure, practices, and imaginary spaces. It attempts to capture the pace, scale, and depth of China's complex and changing reality. Realtime is a collection of original accounts, ana...
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£45,00
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Remembering Emmett Till
ISBN: PB: 9780226559674, ISBN: HB: 9780226559537, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
322 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing
Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate...
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£19,00
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Rights of the Defenseless Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America
ISBN: PB: 9780226760605, ISBN: HB: 9780226652016, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
280 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 14 halftones
In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in...
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£43,50
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Running the Numbers Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling
ISBN: HB: 9780226690445, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today's lotteries can be found in an African American gambl...
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Resistible Rise of Antisemitism Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland
ISBN: PB: 9781684580095, ISBN: HB: 9781684580088, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...
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