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Europe

Empire's Children Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

Saada Emmanuelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226733081, ISBN: HB: 9780226733074, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. When Emmanuelle Saada discove...

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Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships

Jessen Ralph, Richter Hedwig

ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones

Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...

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Children of the Greek Civil War Refugees and the Politics of Memory

Danforth Loring M., Boeschoten Riki

ISBN: PB: 9780226135991, ISBN: HB: 9780226135984, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 11 halftones

At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversarie...

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Music

Europe

Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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Medieval

Nuns Behaving Badly Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226534725, ISBN: HB: 9780226534619, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
264 pp., 22x14 cm, 25 halftones

Witchcraft. Arson. Going AWOL. Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superi...

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Fiction

Europe

Stricken Field A Novel

Gellhorn Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226286969, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
328 pp., 20.5x13 cm

Martha Gellhorn was one of the first – and most widely read – female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she wa...

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Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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History

Martian Stranded on Earth Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science

Krementsov Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9780226454122, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones

Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its formative years, Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) was a visionary. In two science fiction novels set on Mars, Bogdanov imagined a future in which the worke...

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Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

McNeill William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561523, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In "Europe's Steppe Frontier", acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill b...

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History

Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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