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America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
ISBN: HB: 9780300201314, Yale University Press, December 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...
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£25,00
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G.I. Messiahs Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
ISBN: HB: 9780300176704, Yale University Press, December 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our no...
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Inglorious Revolution Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil
ISBN: HB: 9780300139273, Yale University Press, November 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Nineteenth-century Brazil's constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financ...
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£65,00
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Confederate Cities The Urban South during the Civil War Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226300207, ISBN: HB: 9780226300177, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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Secularism in Antebellum America
ISBN: PB: 9780226325132, ISBN: HB: 9780226533230, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones
Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular...
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£42,00
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Making of Tocqueville's America Law and Association in the Early United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226297088, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations – and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand...
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£32,00
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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...
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£16,00
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£31,00
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It Ends Here The Last Missouri Vigilante
ISBN: PB: 9781883982850, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 2 maps
In early January 1904, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Oklahoma City to meet with a washed-up relic of the "Wild West: Edward Capehart O'Kelley". On the dusty streets of the former Indian Territory, O'Kelley struggled to stay...
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£19,00
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Iconoclastic Imagination Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11
ISBN: PB: 9780226310237, ISBN: HB: 9780226310060, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings
Bloody, fiery spectacles – the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination – have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these...
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£26,00
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£67,50
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Making the Mission Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco
ISBN: HB: 9780226141398, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 60 halftones
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission ha...
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£36,00
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