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Amistad's Orphans An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

Lawrance Benjamin Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300198454, Yale University Press, March 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revis...

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Jewish Studies

American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader

Phillip Zola Gary, Dollinger Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781611685107, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2014
478 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Presenting the American Jewish historical experience from its communal beginnings to the present through documents, photographs, and other illustrations, many of which have never before been published, this entirely new collection of source materials...

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American Zion The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War

Shalev Eran

ISBN: PB: 9780300205909, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times to about 1830, numerous Ameri...

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America

American Capitals A Historical Geography

Montes Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226080482, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 6 line drawings, 42 tables

State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national identity. Learning them by heart is a rite of passage in grade school, a pedagogical exercise that emphasizes the importance of committin...

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Accidental Diarist A History of the Daily Planner in America

McCarthy Molly A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226033358, ISBN: HB: 9780226033211, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 34 halftones

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans have been navel-gazing since nearly the beginning of the republic. The daily planner – variously called th...

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Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California

Brooks Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9780226004181, ISBN: HB: 9780226075976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 halftones, 9 line illus.

Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California...

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American Indians Fourth Edition

Hagan William T., Cobb Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226312392, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 20 halftones

William Hagan's classic "American Indians" has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arri...

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American Georgics Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land

Hagenstein Edwin C., Gregg Sara M., Donahue Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300188042, Yale University Press, October 2012
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 33 black&white illus.

From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing fro...

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Biography & Memoires

America

And Bid Him Sing A Biography of Countee Cullen

Molesworth Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780226533643, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

While competing with Langston Hughes for the title of "Poet Laureate of Harlem", Countee Cullen (1903-1946) crafted poems that became touchstones for American readers, both black and white. Inspired by classic themes and working within traditional fo...

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Philosophy

America

American Nietzsche A History of an Icon and His Ideas

Ratner-Rosenhagen Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226006765, ISBN: HB: 9780226705811, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morali...

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