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Unspeakable A Life beyond Sexual Morality
ISBN: HB: 9780226733531, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...
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Upsold Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780226721378, ISBN: HB: 9780226721231, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing, 5 tables
What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold...
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Union by Law Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226679907, ISBN: HB: 9780226679877, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethni...
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Unintentional Accomplice A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility
ISBN: PB: 9781940939230, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Carolyn L. Baker grew up in Southern California during segregation and came of age in the counter-cultural climate of the 1960s. Many years later, when Baker was in her mid-sixties, she first learned of the murder of Emmett Till, sparking an investig...
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Urban Rage The Revolt of the Excluded
ISBN: HB: 9780300214949, Yale University Press, November 2017
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 colour illus.
In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by condemning protestors' actions and passing crackdown measures, urban studies professor Mustafa Dikec shows how these revo...
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Undoing Impunity Speech After Sexual Violence
ISBN: HB: 9789384757779, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity – perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech – both in court...
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Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...
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Until Choice Do Us Part Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226085838, ISBN: HB: 9780226085661, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
For centuries, people have been thinking and writing – and fiercely debating – about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a too...
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Unwanted Child The Fate of Foundlings, Orphans, and Juvenile Criminals in Early Modern Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780226102054, ISBN: HB: 9780226317274, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 halftones, 9 line drawings
The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem for parents, government officials, and society".The Unwanted Child" skill...
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£43,50
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Urban Spaces after Socialism Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities
ISBN: PB: 9783593393841, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
325 pp., 22x14 cm, 40 halftones
The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery".Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space i...
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