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Political Science

Production of Local Knowledge History and Politics in the Work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado

Tapia Luis

ISBN: HB: 9780857423344, Seagull Books, July 2021
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume presents a comprehensive examination of the work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado (1939-1984), the most notable Bolivian political thinker of the twentieth century. While Zavaleta did not live to see the triumph of the indigenous social movements...

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Political Science

Professional Wrestling Politics and Populism

Mazer Sharon, Levi Heather, Laine Eero, Haynes Nell

ISBN: PB: 9780857427946, Seagull Books, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, profession...

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Political Science

Prisms of the People Power and Organizing in Twenty-First Century America

Han Hahrie, McKenna Elizabeth, Oyakawa Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226743905, ISBN: HB: 9780226743875, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 7 tables

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of...

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Political Science

Power on the Precipice The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World

Imbrie Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300243505, Yale University Press, October 2020
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polari...

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Law

Patent Politics Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe

Parthasarathy Shobita

ISBN: PB: 9780226759135, ISBN: HB: 9780226437859, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that patents impact public health, economic inequality, morality – and de...

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Political Science

Probable Justice Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State

Friedman Rachel Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226730936, ISBN: HB: 9780226730769, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same t...

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Political Science

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

Howell William G., Moe Terry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226763170, ISBN: HB: 9780226728797, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-gove...

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Political Science

Political Perversion Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering

Gunn Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226713441, ISBN: HB: 9780226713304, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, innovative book, "Political Perversion", rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues...

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Political Science

Power in Modernity Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies

Ariail Reed Isaac

ISBN: PB: 9780226689456, ISBN: HB: 9780226689319, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

In "Power in Modernity", Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination. Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space,...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...

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