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Christianity

America

Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Road to September 1939 Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

Reinharz Jehuda, Shavit Yaacov

ISBN: PB: 9781684580071, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv were mindful of the plight of European Jews in the face of the Nazi threat during the 1930s. Drawing on a wide variety of memoirs, let...

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Europe

Richard III The Self-Made King

Hicks Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300214291, Yale University Press, October 2019
388 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The reign of Richard III, the last Yorkist king and the final monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty, marked a turning point in British history. But despite his lasting legacy, Richard only ruled as king for the final two years of his life. While much at...

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Africa

Music

Revolution's Echoes Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea

Dave Nomi

ISBN: PB: 9780226654638, ISBN: HB: 9780226654461, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstan...

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America

Rising Up from Indian Country The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226678580, ISBN: HB: 9780226428963, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 maps, 35 halftones

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as...

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Asia

Political Science

Red Flags Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy

Magnus George

ISBN: PB: 9780300246636, Yale University Press, August 2019
248 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

<p>Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps that Chin...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews

Samuels Maurice

ISBN: PB: 9780226677323, ISBN: HB: 9780226397054, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...

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Europe

History

Rotten Bodies Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Siena Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780300233520, Yale University Press, July 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especi...

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America

Remembrance of Things Present The Invention of the Time Capsule

Yablon Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226574134, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

Time capsules may seem trivial and useless to historians, but, as Nick Yablon shows in this new book, they offer crucial insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, and their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things P...

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Europe

Revolution Structure and Meaning in World History

Arjomand Said Amir

ISBN: HB: 9780226026831, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

A revolution is a discontinuity: one political order replaces another, typically through whatever violent means are available. Modern theories of revolutions tend neatly to bracket the French Revolution of 1789 with the fall of the Soviet Union two h...

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