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Middle East

Learned Patriots Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

Yalcinkaya M. Alper

ISBN: HB: 9780226184203, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the "Great Powers" of Europe. The Ottoman Empire was no exception: Ottomans from all walks of life – e...

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Europe

Paris Summit, 1377-78 Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France

Smahel Frantisek

ISBN: HB: 9788024625225, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
680 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeting with deft narrative talent, Frantisek Smahel tra...

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Europe

Icon Curtain The Cold War's Quiet Border

Komska Yuliya

ISBN: HB: 9780226154190, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The Iron Curtain did not exist – at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historica...

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World

Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique Joints and Fissures

Broeck Sabine, Junker Carsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593501925, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
398 pp., 21x13.9 cm

Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generall...

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Europe

Europeans Engaging the Atlantic Knowledge and Trade, 1500-1800

Lachenicht Susanne

ISBN: PB: 9783593501703, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
185 pp., 21x13.9 cm

"Europeans Engaging the Atlantic" offers innovative perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and on trade and commerce therewith. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Medea

Euripides

ISBN: PB: 9780226203454, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides's "Medea" has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their childre...

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America

General

Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States

Heinemann Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...

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Literary Criticism

Asia

Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Schafer Dagmar

ISBN: PB: 9780226272801, ISBN: HB: 9780226735849, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
352 pp., 22.9x16.3 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line illus.

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this peri...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Dreamland of Humanists Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

Levine Emily J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226272467, ISBN: HB: 9780226061689, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twenti...

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Europe

De-Stalinisation Reconsidered Persistence and Change in the Soviet Union

Bohn Thomas M., Einax Rayk, Abesser Michel

ISBN: PB: 9783593501666, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
276 pp., 21x13.9 cm

Joseph Stalin's death was a defining event in Soviet history. In its aftermath, the state was forced to reconceive its political, economic, social, and cultural identity. This volume includes new contributions from an international collection of rese...

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