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Making Sense of the Americas How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond
ISBN: PB: 9783593504803, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical repr...
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Inventing the Modern American Family Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States
ISBN: PB: 9783593396408, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
335 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to...
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Alexander Dallas Bache Building the American Nation through Science and Education in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9783593393551, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2011
340 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 1 map, 3 figures, 15 halftones
Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was one of the leaders of American science in the nineteenth century. Driven by a vision of science as a key component of an integrated U. S. nation-state, he guided the nascent American Association for the Advancem...
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Envisioning the Nation The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture
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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Unsettling History Archiving and Narrating in Historiography
ISBN: PB: 9783593388182, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2010
253 pp., 21.5x14 cm
In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. With "Unsettling History", a group of historians extend that challenge to two central compon...
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