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Browning of the New South

Jones Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226600987, ISBN: HB: 9780226600840, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 table

Studies of immigration to the United States have traditionally focused on a few key states and urban centers, but recent shifts in nonwhite settlement mean that these studies no longer paint the whole picture. Many Latino newcomers are flocking to pl...

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America

Conspiracies of Conspiracies How Delusions Have Overrun America

Konda Thomas Milan

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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Political Science

America

Back Channel American Diplomacy in a Disordered World

Burns William J.

ISBN: HB: 9781787381230, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time – from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of re...

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Hot Protestants A History of Puritanism in England and America

Winship Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126280, Yale University Press, February 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world....

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America

Business & Economics

Broken Bargain Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street

Day Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300223323, Yale University Press, February 2019
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping a...

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Military

America

Thunder in the Harbor Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the American Civil War

Mackowski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781611211856, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2019
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 black&white illus., 4 maps

At 4:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire. Thirty-four hours later, with their supplies running low but their honor satisfied, Federal forces lowered their tattered flag. The only casualty – an accidental death – came...

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America

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

Burnard Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226639246, ISBN: HB: 9780226286105, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 18 tables

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men – men w...

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Ecology

America

Dust Bowls of Empire Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism

Holleman Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780300230208, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm

The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the cli...

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Business & Economics

America

Forgotten Americans An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation

Sawhill Isabel

ISBN: HB: 9780300230369, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white graphs

One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society – economic, cultural, and political – and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of...

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America

History of the Future in Colonial Mexico

O'Hara Matthew D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300233933, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O'Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of "futuremaking." While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin America have long focused on historical...

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