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Edge of Irony Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226566177, ISBN: HB: 9780226054421, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 26 halftones

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of...

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Anthropology

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Two Lenins A Brief Anthropology of Time

Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai

ISBN: PB: 9780997367539, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
112 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, "Two Lenins" is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical explo...

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They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45

Mayer Milton

ISBN: PB: 9780226525839, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg". That's Milton Mayer, writing in a...

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Anthropology

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Governor's Residence in Tranquebar The House and the Daily Life of Its People, 1750-1845

Fihl Esther

ISBN: HB: 9788763543880, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2018
432 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm

The history of contacts between India and Europe tends to be dominated by the British, but Denmark also played a role on the subcontinent in the colonial era. This book offers insight into that history via a close look at one very specific part of it...

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Music

Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France

Bloechl Olivia

ISBN: HB: 9780226522753, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 31 line drawings, 1 table

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its fo...

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Gender Studies

Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979

Shepard Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226493275, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked. ? "Sex, France, and Arab Men" is a history of how an...

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Education

Intellectual Properties of Learning A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

Willinsky John

ISBN: HB: 9780226487922, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Providing a sweeping millennium-plus history of the learned book in the West, John Willinsky puts current debates over intellectual property into context, asking what it is about learning that helped to create the concept even as it gave the products...

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Philosophy

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What Nostalgia Was War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

Dodman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226492940, ISBN: HB: 9780226492803, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it coul...

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Medieval

Fullness of Time Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries

Champion Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226514796, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 32 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself".The Fullness of Time" explores that struggle, and the ch...

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Military

Ardennes Battlefields December 1944 - January 1945

Forty Simon, Marriott Leo

ISBN: HB: 9781612005348, Casemate, November 2017
350 pp., 29.7x21 cm

Just after its seventieth anniversary, the Battle of the Bulge has lost none of its impact. The largest battle fought by US troops on the continent of Europe started in a surprise attack on December 16, 1944, by four German armies, spearheaded by the...

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