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East Asian Dimension of the First World War Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919
ISBN: PB: 9783593507514, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2021
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 30 halftones
Though when people discuss World War I, they usually center on the fighting in Europe, it truly was a global war. This book examines the role of East Asia in the fighting. It looks at how East Asian commentators saw and interpreted the war, both in E...
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£37,00
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Quest for Stable Money Central Banking in Austria, 1816-2016
ISBN: HB: 9783593505350, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 40 colour plates
Caught up in the costly Napoleonic wars, Austria went into sovereign default in 1811. Five years later, the public authorities founded a national bank to be financed and run by private shareholders, the idea being that an independent bank would help...
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£32,00
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Welcome Home, Boys! Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946
ISBN: PB: 9783593397450, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
276 pp., 21.5x14 cm
During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory – ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incis...
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£40,00
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Voting for Hitler and Stalin Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships
ISBN: PB: 9783593394893, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
349 pp., 22x14 cm, 7 tables, 3 halftones
Dictatorships throughout the twentieth century – including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany – held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribut...
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£40,50
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Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9783593393551, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2011
340 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 1 map, 3 figures, 15 halftones
Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U. S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancem...
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£40,00
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Unsettling History Archiving and Narrating in Historiography
ISBN: PB: 9783593388182, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2010
253 pp., 21.5x14 cm
In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. With "Unsettling History", a group of historians extend that challenge to two central compon...
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£31,50
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Frames of Friction Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention
ISBN: PB: 9783593390994, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2010
294 pp., 21.5x14 cm
In "Frames of Friction", Carsten Junker maps out a dazzling panorama of critical cultural debates from the twentieth century to explore the ways in which African American speakers and writers established their authority and gained recognition. Taking...
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£40,00
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