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America

Clear and Present Safety The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans

Cohen Michael A., Zenko Micah

ISBN: HB: 9780300222555, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14 cm

What most frightens the average American? Terrorism. North Korea. Iran. But what if none of these are probable or consequential threats to America? What if the world today is safer, freer, wealthier, healthier, and better educated than ever before? W...

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America

Maxwell Street Writing and Thinking Place

Cresswell Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226604251, ISBN: HB: 9780226604114, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 57 halftones

What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago's iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all...

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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 43 August 16, 1784, through March 15, 1785

Cohn Ellen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300236064, Yale University Press, March 2019
640 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In August 1784, Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson began their congressional commission to negotiate commercial treaties with twenty nations. Their treaty proposal, which Prussia alone would consider, contained unprecedented humanitarian arti...

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Political Science

America

Shaped by the State Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century

Cebul Brent, Geismer Lily, Williams Mason B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226596327, ISBN: HB: 9780226596297, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with s...

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Caught in the Maelstrom The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Crowe Clint

ISBN: HB: 9781611213362, Casemate, Savas Beatie, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 10 illus.

The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes – the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole – during America's Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war...

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America

Culture Studies

Machines of Youth America's Car Obsession

Cross Gary S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226551135, ISBN: HB: 9780226341644, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

For American teenagers, getting a driver's license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver's license in hand, teens are on the road...

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Military

Discovering Gettysburg An Unconventional Introduction to the Greatest Little Town in America and the Monumental Battle that Made It Famous

Coleman Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213539, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 180 caricatures, 200 photos, 9 maps

Gettysburg. Does any other single word in any language invoke so much passion and angst, enthusiasm and sadness, as do those ten letters? But what IS Gettysburg, exactly? I am almost embarrassed to say I discovered the answer to that question – or at...

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Military

Confederate Courage on Other Fields Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness

Crawford Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611213522, Casemate, Savas Beatie, July 2017
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 6 maps, 53 images

"Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness" offers four valuable but little-studied events of the Civil War. Each story explores the hardships of battle, and demonstrations of courage and...

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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 42 March 1 through August 15, 1784

Cohn Ellen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222692, Yale University Press, June 2017
648 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

The forty-second volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. In the spring of 1784, Franklin, John Jay, and British negotiator David Hartley exchanged ratificatio...

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Integrating the Inner City The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation

Chaskin Robert J., Joseph Mark L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226478197, ISBN: HB: 9780226164397, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 6 line drawings, 6 tables

For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment – via the Chicago Housing Authority's "Plan for Transformation" – has been perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban la...

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