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Contours of the Illiberal State Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy
ISBN: PB: 9783593510170, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2019
292 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 halftones
The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete – at least in theory. The essays collected in this...
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£34,00
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Core Europe and Greater Eurasia A Roadmap for the Future
ISBN: PB: 9783593507842, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
226 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables, 2 figures
In today's world, interstate wars are fairly rare – but when they happen, they tend to be more complicated than in the past, combining regional causes with the involvement of external actors as well. This book looks at that problem in the wake of the...
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£28,50
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Chocolate and Blackness A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9783593507767, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2018
187 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 17 halftones
This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate – the economic realitie...
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£36,00
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Cities Contested Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s
ISBN: PB: 9783593506975, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2017
420 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in...
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£51,00
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Counternarrative Possibilities Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns
ISBN: PB: 9783593505541, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2017
360 pp., 21.4x14 cm
"Counternarrative Possibilities" reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American mythology's two formative national tropes: virgin land (from the 1950s) and homeland (after 9/11). Looking at McCarthy's westerns in the context of Ame...
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£36,00
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Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps
States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...
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£28,50
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Cities as Multiple Landscapes Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans
ISBN: PB: 9783593506470, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
529 pp., 20.9x14 cm, 60 halftones, 15 colour plates, 20 line drawings, 4 maps
Cities are composed of a combination of urban and rural spaces, buildings and boundaries, and human bodies engaged in political, social, and cultural discourses. Together, these combine to create what the contributors to this volume call multiple lan...
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£55,00
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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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Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990
ISBN: PB: 9783593397788, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and – in the past two decades – aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsa...
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£24,00
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Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries National and Transnational Identities in Europe and Beyond
ISBN: PB: 9783593396125, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2012
355 pp., 21.6x14 cm
The articles in this volume investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the impact of cross-national migration, changes in political borders, collective mem...
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£41,50
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