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American Guides The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture

Griswold Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226357836, ISBN: HB: 9780226357669, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings, 45 tables

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate – and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a re...

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Political Science

America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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America

American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187328, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstruc...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Amiable Scoundrel Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Kahan Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781612348148, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
408 pp., 23x15 cm

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Law

America

American Supreme Court Sixth Edition

McCloskey Robert G., Levinson Sanford

ISBN: PB: 9780226296890, ISBN: HB: 9780226296753, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court. As in prior editions, McCloskey's orig...

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Performing Arts

America

America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

Pugh Megan

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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America

American Census A Social History

Anderson Margo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300195422, Yale University Press, September 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This book is the first social history of the census from its origins to the present and has become the standard history of the population census in the United States. The second edition has been updated to trace census developments since 1980, includ...

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America

Asia First China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism

Mao Joyce

ISBN: HB: 9780226252711, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

After Japanese bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the American right stood at a crossroads. Generally isolationist, conservatives needed to forge their own foreign policy agenda if they wanted to remain politically viable. When Mao Zedong established the People...

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America

Attu Boy A Young Alaskan's WWII Memoir

Golodoff Nick

ISBN: PB: 9781602232495, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 photos, 2 maps, 2 charts

In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corr...

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America

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Eltis David, Richardson David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212549, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 30.7x23.9 cm, 189 colour maps, 5 black&white illus., 61 colour graphs, 36 colour illus.

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12. 5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up...

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