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Contemporary Art

America

Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture

Meyer James

ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones

More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...

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Anthropology

America

Afterlives of Indigenous Archives

Schweitzer Ivy, Henry Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9781512603651, ISBN: HB: 9781512603644, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Afterlives of Indigenous Archives" offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of "digital humanities". The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous sc...

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America

Alaska in the Progressive Age A Political History, 1896 to 1916

Alton Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781602233843, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of...

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Christianity

America

America's Religious Wars The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life

Sands Kathleen M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300213867, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

When Americans fight about "religion", we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and commitments. Religion-talk has been a ready vehicle for these conflicts because it is built on enduring contradictions within our core politi...

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Military

America

And We Were Young Oundle School and the Great War

Pendrill Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174195, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
432 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 300 black&white photos

"A boy, he spent his boy's dear life for England". These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot himself, whilst stranded in the Libyan Desert. With...

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Political Science

America

All Measures Short of War The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power

Wright Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300240276, ISBN: HB: 9780300223286, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response. The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged...

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America

Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States

James C. Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300240214, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle...

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America

American Enlightenments Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Winterer Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300240269, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monar...

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America

American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century A Social and Cultural History

Bushman Richard L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226737, Yale University Press, July 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In the eighteenth century, three-quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America's farmers from colonial times through the founding of the nation. Noted historian R...

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America

Jewish Studies

After They Closed the Gates Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965

Garland Libby

ISBN: PB: 9780226565224, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws wer...

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