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America

Power without Victory Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment

Throntveit Trygve

ISBN: PB: 9780226459905, ISBN: HB: 9780226459875, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a na??ve idealist or cynical imperialist abroad. Historians' harsh judgments of Wilson are understandable. He won two electio...

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Ecology

America

Coast Beyond Compare Coastal Geology and Ecology of Southern Alaska

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661841, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
350 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 183 colour plates, 9 halftones

The southern coast of Alaska stretches over six hundred miles, its sweeping crescent studded with glaciers and beaches that connect temperate rainforest to frozen islands. While its soaring beauty attracts thousands of visitors a year, it also hides...

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America

Melting the Ice Curtain The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier

Ramseur David

ISBN: PB: 9781602233348, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 1 map

Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988...

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Music

Blackface Nation Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925

Roberts Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780226451640, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in "B...

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America

Ties That Bound Founding First Ladies and Slaves

Jenkins Schwartz Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780226147550, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Moun...

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America

Beheading the Saint Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec

Zubrzycki Genevieve

ISBN: PB: 9780226391687, ISBN: HB: 9780226391540, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 54 halftones, 1 line drawing

Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province". Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services – a transformation rooted in the "Qui...

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Music

America

Flavor and Soul Italian America at Its African American Edge

Gennari John

ISBN: HB: 9780226428321, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers – "The Colored Mario" – all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur...

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America

Political Science

Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Jou Chin

ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...

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America

Demolition Means Progress Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis

Highsmith Andrew R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419558, ISBN: HB: 9780226050058, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
398 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 17 maps, 3 tables

In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress", suggesting that the struggling city could no...

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America

Albrecht Durer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Brisman Shira

ISBN: HB: 9780226354750, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 colour plates, 86 halftones

Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Durer, Shira B...

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