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New Jewish Leaders Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781611681833, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly launched a slew of new initiatives directed at their age peers. Born during the last quarter of...
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£32,00
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Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm
Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...
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£51,00
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Picturing Faith Photography and the Great Depression
ISBN: PB: 9780300184464, Yale University Press, November 2011
330 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.
In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks-all then virtually unknown-were com...
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£35,00
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Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America
ISBN: PB: 9780300184082, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements...
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£25,00
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Thousand-Year Flood The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937
ISBN: HB: 9780226887166, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 18 halftones
In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a milli...
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£20,50
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Unwarranted Influence Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex
ISBN: PB: 9780300177626, Yale University Press, October 2011
280 pp., 21x14 cm
In "Dwight" D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex", a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World...
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Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm
The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...
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£26,00
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Slaveholders' Union Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic
ISBN: PB: 9780226846705, ISBN: HB: 9780226846682, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.
After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested polit...
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£24,00
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£39,00
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Defiance of the Patriots The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
ISBN: PB: 9780300178128, ISBN: HB: 9780300117059, Yale University Press, September 2011
328 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 33 black&white illus.
On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbour. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary a...
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£14,99
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What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest
ISBN: PB: 9780226326788, ISBN: HB: 9780226326771, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 32 halftones, 3 line illus.
The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and '60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridat...
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£79,00
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