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Ecology

Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America

Belgrad Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226652535, ISBN: HB: 9780226652368, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones

When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback". But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamic...

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America

Music

I'd Fight the World A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music

La Chapelle Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226923000, ISBN: HB: 9780226922997, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In "I'd Fight the World", Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics...

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America

Money, Power, and the People The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic

Shaw Christopher W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226636337, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Banks and bankers are hardly the most beloved people and institutions in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold on the American economy, Wall Street is not held in high regard by many outside the financial sector. Bu...

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America

Technology & Engineering

None of Your Damn Business Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

Cappello Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226557748, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

You can hardly pass through customs at an airport today without having your picture taken and your fingertips scanned, that information then stored in an archive you'll never see. Nor can you use your home's smart technology without wondering what, e...

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Anthropology

America

Afterlives of Indigenous Archives

Schweitzer Ivy, Henry Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9781512603651, ISBN: HB: 9781512603644, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Afterlives of Indigenous Archives" offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of "digital humanities". The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous sc...

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America

Alaska in the Progressive Age A Political History, 1896 to 1916

Alton Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781602233843, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of...

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America

Maroon Nation A History of Revolutionary Haiti

Gonzalez Johnhenry

ISBN: HB: 9780300230086, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country's early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent H...

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Christianity

America

America's Religious Wars The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life

Sands Kathleen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300213867, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When Americans fight about "religion", we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core politi...

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America

Cul de Sac Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue

Cheney Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226679259, ISBN: HB: 9780226079356, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkab...

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America

Blueprint for War FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America

Dunn Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300244342, ISBN: HB: 9780300203530, Yale University Press, June 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus. in 8-pg insert

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under t...

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