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Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco
ISBN: PB: 9780226592749, ISBN: HB: 9780226592602, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific", using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newf...
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£27,00
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Hollywood in Havana US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959
ISBN: PB: 9780226593692, ISBN: HB: 9780226593555, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones
In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movies theaters t...
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£27,00
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Imagining Anchorage The Making of America's Northernmost Metropolis
ISBN: HB: 9781602233669, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2019
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 132 colour plates
Anchorage is an exceptional city. What was once a town site of tents is now the largest city in the state. It just celebrated its centenary in 2015, but it has seen inhabitants for millennia. It is an economic hub grown from railroads, gold, and oil....
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£34,00
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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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