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Philosophy

Naive Readings Reveilles Political and Philosophic

Lerner Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9780226353296, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them. Philosophers and politicians have long understood this, and whenever they have sought to get us to think differently they h...

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Philosophy

Political Science

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life Reflections on Rousseau's "Reveries" in Two Books

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: HB: 9780226074030, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

"On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life" presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Reveries, the philosopher's most beautiful and daring work, as well as his last and least understood. Bringing to bear more than thirty years of study...

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America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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Law

Politics of Islamic Law Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

Hussin Iza R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323343, ISBN: HB: 9780226323206, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

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America

Politics of Resentment Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Cramer Katherine J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226349114, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps, 13 figures, 1 table

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall t...

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Europe

Southern Europe? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day

Baumeister Martin, Sala Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9783593504827, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...

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History

Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)

Franzmann Andreas, Munte Peter, Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings

Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Marx at the Margins On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226345673, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Marx at the Margins", Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx's writings, including journalistic wor...

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America

Streets of San Francisco Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972

Lowen Agee Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226378084, ISBN: HB: 9780226122281, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 map

For decades, the city of San Francisco has been nearly synonymous with the word "liberal", known for its diversity and acceptance, environmental activism, and thriving art scene. But this has not always been the case. Liberalism in San Francisco in t...

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Political Science

Second Birth On the Political Beginnings of Human Existence

Schabert Tilo, Ibanez-Noe Javier

ISBN: HB: 9780226038056, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births. Drawing on mythical, philosophical, religious, and political thought from around...

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