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Thinking About History

Maza Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226109336, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's "Thinking About History", a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent t...

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Business & Economics

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

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Political Science

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Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

Rinke Stefan, Wildt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...

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Middle East

Lawrence of Arabia's War The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI

Faulkner Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300226393, Yale University Press, April 2017
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., maps

Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first...

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Dark Path to Freedom Rusi Nazar, from the Red Army to the CIA

Altayli Enver

ISBN: HB: 9781849046978, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Rusi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberatio...

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Culture Studies

Of Beards and Men The Revealing History of Facial Hair

Oldstone-Moore Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226479200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284002, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones

Beards – they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipste...

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In Space We Read Time On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics

Schlogel Karl

ISBN: HB: 9781941792087, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2017
550 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones

History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlogel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlogel relishes space th...

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Extraordinary Ordinariness Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015

Wendt Simon

ISBN: PB: 9783593506173, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
294 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 25 halftones

Everyday heroes and heroines – ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats – have received only scant attention in heroism scholarship. While scholars have devoted thousands of pages to war heroes, heroic leaders, a...

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