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Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 26
ISBN: PB: 9781684000654, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2020
435 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...
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Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema
ISBN: PB: 9780226105635, ISBN: HB: 9780226105628, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 84 halftones, 1 table
The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers. But while these have generally been considered the foremost pioneers of film, they were not the only cru...
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Men without Maps Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall
ISBN: PB: 9780226656113, ISBN: HB: 9780226656083, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
In "Men without Maps", John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps – provided by n...
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Listening to China Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770-1839
ISBN: HB: 9780226667126, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings
From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800. These sounds were gathered by diplomats, trade officials, missionaries, and other travelers an...
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Bitten by the Blues The Alligator Records Story
ISBN: PB: 9780226681986, ISBN: HB: 9780226129907, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago...
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Clashing over Commerce A History of US Trade Policy
ISBN: PB: 9780226678443, ISBN: HB: 9780226398969, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
862 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 21 line drawings
Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevit...
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Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" A Philosophical Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780226637594, ISBN: HB: 9780226395128, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides's "Guide of the Perplexed" is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary – even contradictory – statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guard...
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Mourning After Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men
ISBN: PB: 9780226576688, ISBN: HB: 9780226576541, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 halftones
On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these inti...
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Song Walking Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland
ISBN: PB: 9780226538013, ISBN: HB: 9780226537962, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones
"Song Walking" explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey inv...
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Confident Pluralism Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference
ISBN: PB: 9780226592435, ISBN: HB: 9780226365459, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In recent years, the United States has become increasingly polarized and divided. This fissure is evident across the nation in conflict over LGBTQ rights; in challenges to religious liberty; in clashes over abortion; in tensions between law enforceme...
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