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Literary Criticism

War on Words Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature

Gilmore Michael T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101699, ISBN: HB: 9780226294131, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm

How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with...

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Film Studies

Jewish Studies

Woody on Rye Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen

Brook Vincent, Grinberg Marat

ISBN: PB: 9781611684803, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although Woody Allen's films have received extensive attention from scholars and critics, no book has focused exclusively on Jewishness in his work, particularly that of the late 1990s and beyond. In this anthology, a distinguished group of contribut...

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Political Science

White-Collar Government The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

Carnes Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226087146, ISBN: HB: 9780226087009, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 line drawings, 8 tables

Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has...

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Business & Economics

Well Worth Saving How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership

Fishback Price V., Rose Jonathan, Snowden Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780226082448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 10 tables

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling...

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Evolution

Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory

Richards Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226058931, ISBN: HB: 9780226058764, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 7 line drawings

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values...

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Ancient World

Other

Women and Weasels Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome

Bettini Maurizio

ISBN: HB: 9780226044743, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a...

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Anthropology

Where the North Sea Touches Alabama

Shelton Allen C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226073224, ISBN: HB: 9780226063645, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

On a warm summer's night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade: the floor and table were covered...

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History

Wounded Storyteller Body, Illness, and Ethics (Second Edition)

Frank Arthur W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226004976, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
260 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability an...

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Architecture

Culture Studies

Wicked Intelligence Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London

Hunter Matthew C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226017297, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 66 halftones

In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures reve...

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Anthropology

Other

Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust Africa in Comparison

Geschiere Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226047614, ISBN: HB: 9780226047584, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Dante's "Inferno", the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in "Witchcraft, Intimac...

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