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Political Science

American Warfare State The Domestic Politics of Military Spending

Thorpe Rebecca U.

ISBN: PB: 9780226124070, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 19 line drawings, 6 tables

How is it that the United States – a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power – came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national...

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Political Science

Empire of Civilization The Evolution of an Imperial Idea

Bowden Brett

ISBN: PB: 9780226142401, ISBN: HB: 9780226068145, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term "civilization" comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as "civilized" – or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopoliti...

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Common Cause Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955

Gandhi Leela

ISBN: PB: 9780226019901, ISBN: HB: 9780226019871, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in "The Common Cause", Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

Rousseau Jean-Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226151311, ISBN: HB: 9780226921860, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones

Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject...

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Political Science

Freedom's Ballot African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration

Garb Margaret

ISBN: HB: 9780226135908, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 maps

In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participa...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Aristotle's Politics Living Well and Living Together

Garver Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226154985, ISBN: HB: 9780226284026, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
312 pp., 23x15 cm

"Man is a political animal", Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the "Politics". In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, Eugene Garver traces the surprising implications of Aristotle's claim and explores th...

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America

How the States Shaped the Nation American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000

Springer Melanie Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226114217, ISBN: HB: 9780226114187, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 20 tables

The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that...

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Political Science

Sing the Rage Listening to Anger after Mass Violence

Chakravarti Sonali

ISBN: HB: 9780226119984, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? In "Sing the Rage", Sonali Chakravarti wrestles with this question through...

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Political Science

Agenda Setting, Policies, and Political Systems A Comparative Approach

Green-Pedersen Christoffer, Walgrave Stefaan

ISBN: PB: 9780226128306, ISBN: HB: 9780226128276, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 figures, 11 tables

Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of atten...

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Political Science

Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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