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America

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Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Literate South Reading before Emancipation

Barton Schweiger Beth

ISBN: HB: 9780300112535, Yale University Press, August 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

A pervasive assumption about the culture of the southern United States is that it is firmly rooted in an oral tradition, not a written one. Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy and reading in the American South before emancipation by s...

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Gender Studies

Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India

Hoenig Patrick, Singh Navsharan

ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...

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Africa

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Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands

Ryan Chance Kerry

ISBN: PB: 9780226519661, ISBN: HB: 9780226519524, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In "Living Politics", Kerry Ryan Chance radically fl...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Biography & Memoires

Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life

Steward Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780226541419, ISBN: HB: 9780226520346, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-1993) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identiti...

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General

Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs

Ikard David

ISBN: PB: 9780226492636, ISBN: HB: 9780226492469, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression".Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" investigates the tenacity and cultura...

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Law

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Legalizing Plural Marriage The Next Frontier in Family Law

Goldfeder Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611688351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other "poly" groups. In...

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General

Land is Full Addressing Overpopulation in Israel

Tal Alon

ISBN: HB: 9780300216882, Yale University Press, September 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

An assessment of how Israel's extraordinary population growth undermines the country's environment, social equity, and quality of life – and what must be done about it During the past sixty-eight years, Israel's population has increased from one to e...

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General

Landscapes of Accumulation Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India

Guiu Searle Llerena

ISBN: PB: 9780226385068, ISBN: HB: 9780226384900, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 7 tables

Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious...

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General

Longing for Home Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality

Holton M. Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207620, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm

What is it about the concept of "home" that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced...

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