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Business & Economics

Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table

The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...

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Africa

Anthropology

For Money and Elders Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya

Blunt Robert W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226655758, ISBN: HB: 9780226655611, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch. Yet efforts from critics and academics to diagnose...

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Law

Political Science

How to Lobby Alaska State Government

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233959, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lobbying is about getting the right message to the right people in the right form at the right time. Even the most persuasive arguments or most influential groups will come up short if they aren't combined with personal connections and an understandi...

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America

Christianity

Imagining Judeo-Christian America Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy

Gaston Healan K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226663852, ISBN: HB: 9780226663715, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Judeo-Christian" is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the...

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Europe

In Quest of History On Czech Statehood and Identity

Priban Jiri, Hvizdala Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024642673, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiri Priban and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvizdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech...

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America

Fire, Pestilence, and Death St. Louis, 1849

Gordon Christopher Alan

ISBN: PB: 9781883982935, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones

In 1849, St. Louis was little more than a frontier town, swelling under the pressure of rapid population growth, creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure, and often trapped within the confines of ignorance and prejudice. The cholera epidemic...

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Education

America

200 Years of the University of Cincinnati Three Volume Set with Slip Case

ISBN: SET: 9781947602489, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, November 2019
187 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 56 colour plates

This limited edition three-volume slipcased set celebrates the bicentennial of the University of Cincinnati. The set consists of hardback editions of "In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati", by urban historian David Stradl...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Arthur Vandenberg The Man in the Middle of the American Century

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226682037, ISBN: HB: 9780226433486, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that a Senator – Republican or Democrat – would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn't always been the case. Arthur H. Vanden...

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Cartography

America

Atlas of Boston History

Seasholes Nancy S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226631158, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 35.5x27.9 cm, 57 colour plates

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural ca...

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Business & Economics

Asia

Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century

Winter Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...

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