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Political Science

Forensics of Capital

Ralph Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226198576, ISBN: HB: 9780226198439, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

As one of Africa's few democracies, Senegal has long been thought of as a leader of moral, political, and economic development on the continent. We tend to assume that any such nation has achieved favorable international standing due to its own merit...

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Cartography

Historical Atlas of Tibet

Ryavec Karl E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226732442, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
216 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 121 colour plates, 36 halftones, 2 tables

Cradled among the world's highest mountains – and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities – Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In rec...

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America

Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment

Richards Leonard L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226178202, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been limited – freeing only slaves within Confederate states who were able to make their way to Union lines – b...

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America

Freedom as Marronage

Roberts Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226201047, ISBN: HB: 9780226127460, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

What is the opposite of freedom? In "Freedom as Marronage", Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Cruci...

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Philosophy

Art and Truth after Plato

Rockmore Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226272634, ISBN: HB: 9780226040028, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long...

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History of Art

Master of the Trebon Altarpiece

Royt Jan

ISBN: HB: 9788024622613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
330 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, 86 colour plates, 12 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Master of the Trebon Altarpiece was a painter active in Prague in the fourteenth century and one of the most important gothic artists of the international style. He is named for his mo...

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Sport

Selling the Yellow Jersey The Tour de France in the Global Era

Reed Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780226206530, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 map, 3 tables

Yellow Livestrong wristbands were taken off across America early last year when Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he had doped during the seven Tour de France races he won. But the foreign cycling world, which always viewed Armstrong wi...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities

Ridolfo Jim, Hart-Davidson William

ISBN: PB: 9780226176697, ISBN: HB: 9780226176550, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings

The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton's annotations, use social media to engage academic and public...

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Philosophy

Other Renaissance Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger

Rubini Rocco

ISBN: HB: 9780226186139, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In "The Other Renaissance", Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since:...

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Travel

Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and American Culture

Robinson Michael F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214153, ISBN: HB: 9780226721842, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost the...

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