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Last Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300217803, Yale University Press, September 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did – in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that inf...
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£35,00
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Crossing Parish Boundaries Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954
ISBN: PB: 9780226565989, ISBN: HB: 9780226388762, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialis...
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£27,00
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£36,00
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Blue & Gray Almanac The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes and Slang
ISBN: HB: 9781612005522, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 21x15 cm
Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know... - During the final days of the war some Richmond citizens were wont to throw "Starvation Parties", at which elegantly attired...
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£25,00
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Hero's Curse The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela
ISBN: HB: 9781849047951, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolivar, to stir popular support. While Bolivar's heroic struggle helped free a continent, his affinity for dictatorial rule...
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£16,99
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Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
ISBN: HB: 9780226334493, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 maps
In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law – he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his a...
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£20,00
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Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones
When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...
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£22,50
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£28,00
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Global Republic America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power
ISBN: HB: 9780226164731, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world's stage. The country's economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy, and its leading position in international institutions tend to be seen as the result of a lo...
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£24,00
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Harnessed to the Pole Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic 1853-1909
ISBN: PB: 9781602232235, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 15 maps
In the second half of the nineteenth century, an epic race was underway in some of the most brutal stretches on the planet. Explorers from around the world hoped to stake their claim on the Arctic, with the North Pole being the ultimate prize. Those...
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£19,00
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Tolerant Populists, Second Edition Kansas Populism and Nativism
ISBN: PB: 9780226054087, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People's Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the or...
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£24,00
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Yale, 1900-2001 Volume 1 & 2: Yale College Twentieth Century - a History in Present Time; Whiffenpoofs - Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300047592, Yale University Press, January 2013
556 pp., 25x15 cm
This slipcased, two-volume set includes: "Yale College Twentieth Century", and "A History in Present Time". Beginning in 1900 and concluding with the events of 2001, VOLUME I is a chronological history of Yale College in the 20th Century. Using excer...
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£175,00
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