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Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918
ISBN: PB: 9780226756363, ISBN: HB: 9780226756226, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 10 tables
Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. But, as Reconstruction came to an end and legal and social discrimination against African Americans became widespread, civil rights...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Appalachia as Contested Borderland of the Early Modern Atlantic, 1528-1715
ISBN: PB: 9780866986328, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, March 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
This monograph explores the European obsession with Appalachian mineral resources during the years between 1528 and 1715, reframing Appalachian history within the fields of Latin American, early American, and Atlantic history. While political activis...
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£52,00
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Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City
ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables
Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...
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£28,00
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Surveying Early America The Point of Beginning: An Illustrated History
ISBN: PB: 9781947603028, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021
176 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 colour plates
At the age of sixteen, our first president began his professional life as a surveyor, going on to lead several expeditions to measure and map the American interior. The early surveyors, whether determining a colonial border, setting a boundary for a...
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£28,00
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Remembering Emmett Till
ISBN: PB: 9780226559674, ISBN: HB: 9780226559537, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
322 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing
Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate...
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£16,00
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£19,00
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City Creative The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America
ISBN: HB: 9780226727226, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 145 colour plates
In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking – small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal. But the projec...
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£28,00
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Past and Prologue Politics and Memory in the American Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300234961, Yale University Press, January 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
In "Past and Prologue", Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Ame...
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£30,00
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Aristocracy of Critics Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press
ISBN: HB: 9780300111897, Yale University Press, January 2021
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
In 1943, Time Inc. editor-in-chief Henry R. Luce sponsored the greatest collaboration of intellectuals in the twentieth century. He and University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins summoned the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the Pulitzer-win...
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£25,00
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Last Slave Ships New York and the End of the Middle Passage
ISBN: HB: 9780300247336, Yale University Press, January 2021
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 21 black&white illus.
Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the A...
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£25,00
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On The Ho Chi Minh Trail A Journey through Vietnam and Laos
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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£20,00
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