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Europeans Engaging the Atlantic Knowledge and Trade, 1500-1800
ISBN: PB: 9783593501703, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
185 pp., 21x13.9 cm
"Europeans Engaging the Atlantic" offers innovative perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and on trade and commerce therewith. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans...
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£37,00
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End of Cheap Labour? Industrial Transformation and "Social Upgrading" in China
ISBN: PB: 9783593501772, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
400 pp., 21x13.9 cm, 40 illus., 35 tables
The Chinese government and international observers argue that China's economy must overcome its excessive dependence on exports if substantial growth in domestic consumption is to be achieved and sustained in the future. But this shift can only occur...
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£45,00
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Rereading the Machine in the Garden Nature and Technology in American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9783593501918, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
246 pp., 21x13.9 cm
This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out in one of the founding texts of American studies by Leo Marx fifty years ago. The contributors to this volume explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture...
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£39,00
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Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States
ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...
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£40,50
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De-Stalinisation Reconsidered Persistence and Change in the Soviet Union
ISBN: PB: 9783593501666, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
276 pp., 21x13.9 cm
Joseph Stalin's death was a defining event in Soviet history. In its aftermath, the state was forced to reconceive its political, economic, social, and cultural identity. This volume includes new contributions from an international collection of rese...
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£42,00
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Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9783593501017, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
230 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates
In North America, where the sociocultural history and national mythologies of the United States and Canada are especially fertile ground for the invention of identities both fake and "real" impostor narratives of all kinds abound. From ethnic imperso...
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£45,00
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Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation
ISBN: PB: 9783593500287, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
272 pp., 22x14 cm
Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. T...
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£37,00
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Fitting In and Getting Happy How Conformity to Societal Norms Affects Subjective Well-being
ISBN: PB: 9783593500560, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
196 pp., 22x13.9 cm
Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being?  Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in "Fitting In and Getting Happy" that to a large extent ha...
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£37,00
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Journalism and Technological Change Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Trends
ISBN: PB: 9783593501048, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
250 pp., 22x14 cm
Technology, media, and journalism are closely related, both in the present time and from a historical perspective. New technologies, however, only develop their specific potential within the cultural and social contexts in which they are created and...
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£42,00
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(K)information Gamete Donation and Kinship Knowledge in Germany and Britain
ISBN: PB: 9783593500676, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
383 pp., 22x13.9 cm
Openness about sperm and egg donation and the regulation of donor anonymity or non-anonymity are new phenomena. How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about gamete donors and the donation itself? And how does this kno...
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£45,00
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