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Disalienation Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France
ISBN: PB: 9780226777740, ISBN: HB: 9780226777603, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy Regime's "soft extermination" let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one p...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Darfur Allegory
ISBN: PB: 9780226761725, ISBN: HB: 9780226761695, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's pol...
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£22,00
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Discourses of Weakness in Modern China Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia"
ISBN: PB: 9783593509020, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
586 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From the time of China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a "weak state" dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as  lacking competitiveness in a...
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£44,00
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Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega
ISBN: PB: 9780866986359, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars to explore the poet's encyclopedic impulse in light of our own frenzied information age. This comprehensive collection of essays, coedited by Car...
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£77,00
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Deconstruction An American Institution
ISBN: PB: 9780226536057, ISBN: HB: 9780226535869, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that h...
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£26,00
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£76,00
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Dead of the Irish Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300123821, Yale University Press, November 2020
704 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 – a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governin...
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£50,00
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Defectives in the Land Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
ISBN: PB: 9780226758633, ISBN: HB: 9780226364162, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant".Defectives in the Land", Douglas C. Baynton's groun...
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£23,00
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Daily Thomas Paine A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226653518, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis", Paine codified both co...
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Decline of Magic Britain in the Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300243581, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certa...
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Defenders of Japan The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016: A History
ISBN: HB: 9781849048934, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
320 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) from 1954 as both unorthodox...
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