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Military

Guerrilla Marketing Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia

Fattal Alexander L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226590646, ISBN: HB: 9780226590509, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

Brand warfare is real".Guerrilla Marketing" details the Colombian government's efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on whi...

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America

Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake

Musselwhite Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226585284, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

The early Europeans settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some viewed the bay as a wild landscape waiting to be tamed, while others saw potential there for spiritual sanctuary. But all of th...

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Christianity

Europe

Atlas of Religions in Czechia

Havlicek Tomas, Klingorova Kamila, Lysak Jakub

ISBN: HB: 9788024637945, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2018
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 40 colour plates, 116 maps, 4 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Atlas of Religions in Czechia" represents the first comprehensive geographical analysis of the religious landscape of Czechia and its transformation since the fall of communism in 198...

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Europe

Marketable Values Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain

Fitz-Gibbon Desmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226584331, ISBN: HB: 9780226584164, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that land should be – or even could be – treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and politi...

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Europe

History of the Czech Lands Second Edition

Panek Jaroslav, Tuma Oldrich

ISBN: PB: 9788024622279, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
650 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 80 halftones, 23 colour maps, 8 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Born January 1, 1993 after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside it...

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Women Studies

Europe

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England

Leong Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226583662, ISBN: HB: 9780226583495, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified...

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Europe

Engineering the Eternal City Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

Long Pamela O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226591285, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 73 halftones

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hund...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Studies of Homeric Greece

Bouzek Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Europe

Germany's Ancient Pasts Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700

Maner Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780226593074, ISBN: HB: 9780226592916, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

In Germany, Nazi ideology casts a long shadow over the history of archaeological interpretation. Propaganda, school curricula, and academic publications under the regime drew spurious conclusions from archaeological evidence to glorify the Germanic p...

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Asia

Invention of Madness State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China

Baum Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226558240, ISBN: HB: 9780226580616, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began...

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