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Asia

East Asian Dimension of the First World War Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919

Jan Schmidt, Katja Schmidtpott

ISBN: PB: 9783593507514, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2021
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 30 halftones

Though when people discuss World War I, they usually center on the fighting in Europe, it truly was a global war. This book examines the role of East Asia in the fighting. It looks at how East Asian commentators saw and interpreted the war, both in E...

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Europe

Economic Rise of the Czech Lands I From the 1750s to the End of World War I

Jindra Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024638065, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
500 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 85 graphs and charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This first of a two-part examination of the economic development of the Czech lands deals with the period from the mid-eighteenth century (the accession of Maria Theresa to the Austrian th...

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America

On The Ho Chi Minh Trail A Journey through Vietnam and Laos

Buchanan Sherry

ISBN: HB: 9781916346307, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 colour images, 12 maps

Part travelogue, part history, and part reflective meditation on conflict and reconciliation, Sherry Buchanan's new book offers both a personal and historical exploration of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, highlighting the critical role the Trail and the you...

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Christianity

Anthropology

Daemons are Forever Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium

White David Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226714905, ISBN: HB: 9780226692401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones

A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, "Daemons Are Forever" is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings – daemons – and an account of exc...

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America

Culture Studies

Cycling City Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s

Friss Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780226758800, ISBN: HB: 9780226210919, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles – where they belong, how they should be ridde...

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Linguistics

Digital Community Engagement Partnering Communities with the Academy

Wingo Rebecca S., Heppler Jason, Schadewald Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781947602519, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos

"Digital Community Engagement" brings together cutting-edge campus-community partnerships with a focus on digital projects. Through a series of case studies authored by academics and their community partners, this collection explores models for digit...

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Europe

Medieval

Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega

Purdy Moudarres Christiana, Chiodo Carol

ISBN: PB: 9780866986359, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars to explore the poet's encyclopedic impulse in light of our own frenzied information age. This comprehensive collection of essays, coedited by Car...

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Pediatrics

Community-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health, Volume 1

Jacquez Farrah, Svedin Lina

ISBN: HB: 9781947602687, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Communitiy-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health" is the first in a seven-series volume that looks at participatory public health research studies conducted by scholar/community interdisciplinary teams. In this volume, academics work toge...

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America

Philosophy

Deconstruction An American Institution

Jones-Katz Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226536057, ISBN: HB: 9780226535869, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that h...

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Fiction

Crafting the Word Writings from Manipur

Anjulika Samom Thingnam

ISBN: HB: 9789385932809, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Manipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in eighth century AD. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that women began writing and publishing their works. Today, w...

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