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We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World
ISBN: HB: 9780300230031, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interview...
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£18,99
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Latin America The Allure and Power of an Idea
ISBN: PB: 9780226705200, ISBN: HB: 9780226443065, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with th...
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Daily Thomas Paine A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226653518, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis", Paine codified both co...
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£10,00
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Growing Up with the Country Family, Race, and Nation After the Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9780300248395, ISBN: HB: 9780300180527, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 black&white illus.
Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyo...
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£35,00
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Memory Lands King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
ISBN: PB: 9780300248388, Yale University Press, January 2020
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.
Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as "King Philip's War", providing an alternative to "Pilgrim-centric" narratives that have conventionally domin...
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£25,00
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Trials of Thomas Morton An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England
ISBN: HB: 9780300230109, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 19 black&white illus.
Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian...
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£22,50
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World of Trouble A Philadelphia Quaker Family's Journey through the American Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300219982, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Historian Richard Godbeer presents a richly layered and intimate account of the American Revolution as experienced by a Philadelphia Quaker couple, Elizabeth Drinker and the merchant Henry Drinker, who barely survived the unique perils that Quakers f...
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£30,00
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Learning One's Native Tongue Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226623221, ISBN: HB: 9780226623191, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political...
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£68,00
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Newcomers Gentrification and Its Discontents
ISBN: HB: 9780226476261, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transformation of commercial strips that often signify a gentrifying neighborhood, determining who actually ben...
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£23,00
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Bankrupt in America A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226679563, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 8 tables
In 2005, more than two million Americans – six out of every 1,000 people – filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabilized, bankruptcy remains an important tool for the relief of financially distressed households. In "Ban...
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£44,00
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