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America's Inequality Trap
ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables
The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...
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£26,00
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£74,00
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Dream of the Water Children Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific
ISBN: PB: 9781940939285, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, March 2019
476 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm
Born to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, the narrator of "Dream of the Water Children", finds himself not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heritage, but often a cultural drifter, as well. I...
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£19,00
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Conspiracies of Conspiracies How Delusions Have Overrun America
ISBN: HB: 9780226585765, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion –...
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£23,00
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Islands of Sovereignty Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780226587417, ISBN: HB: 9780226587387, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 17 line drawings
In "Islands of Sovereignty", anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father
ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....
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£14,99
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Through Their Eyes A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central
ISBN: PB: 9781602233577, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2018
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables
The towns of Eagle, Circle, and Central are tucked away in the cold, rugged, and sparsely populated central-eastern interior of Alaska. These communities have fewer than three hundred residents in an area of more than 22,000 square miles. Yet they ar...
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£15,00
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World of Homeowners American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid
ISBN: PB: 9780226598253, ISBN: HB: 9780226282350, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Is there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's major exports and defining characteristics around th...
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£25,00
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£36,00
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Despot's Apprentice Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9781849049436, Hurst Publishers, December 2017
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like a despot's apprentice. Whether it's attacking the press, threatening the rule of law, or staffing the White House with family members and cronies, Trump is borrowi...
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Bloody Engagements John R. Kelso's Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9780300210965, Yale University Press, April 2017
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
The first edited edition of a Union soldier's remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War. While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of th...
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£20,00
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Paying with Their Bodies American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran
ISBN: PB: 9780226420714, ISBN: HB: 9780226210094, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table
Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The p...
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