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Envisioning the Nation The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture

Boger Astrid

ISBN: PB: 9783593387901, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
321 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. But as Astrid Boger shows in "Envisioning the Nation", at the same time the fairs played i...

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Political Science

America

Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present

Clemens Elisabeth S., Guthrie Doug

ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...

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Political Science

In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History

Fellman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300168020, Yale University Press, January 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 9 black&white illus.

With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he belie...

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Peter's War A New England Slave Boy and the American Revoultion

Malcolm Joyce Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300168068, ISBN: HB: 9780300119305, Yale University Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 4 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the rev...

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America

William Clark's World Describing America in an Age of Unknowns

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139013, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 41 black&white illus.

William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through the...

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Culture Studies

Encyclopedia of New York City Second Edition

Jackson Kenneth T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300114652, Yale University Press, January 2011
1600 pp., 27.7x21.8 cm, 752 black&white illus.

Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its f...

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Business & Economics

America

Founding Choices American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Irwin Douglas A., Sylla Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226384757, ISBN: HB: 9780226384740, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 17 line illus.

The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to com...

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America

Fruitlands The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia

Francis Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300140415, Yale University Press, November 2010
336 pp., 23.1x16.5 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of...

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Biography & Memoires

Abigail and John Adams The Americanization of Sensibility

Barker-Benfield G. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226037431, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, th...

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City for Empire An Anchorage History, 1914-1941

Jones Preston

ISBN: PB: 9781602230842, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
214 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the U. S. Navy was engaged with Japan. Decades later, during...

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