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Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors Religion and the History of the CIA
ISBN: HB: 9780226767406, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), a...
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£36,00
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Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table
The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War
ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
ISBN: PB: 9780226583181, ISBN: HB: 9780226066691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless...
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£21,00
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£28,00
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Empire in Retreat The Past, Present, and Future of the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780300210002, Yale University Press, March 2018
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer-Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an empire. From its territorial expansion after independence, through hegemonic rule following World War II, to th...
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£25,00
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Evangelical Gotham Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860
ISBN: HB: 9780226388144, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 7 maps, 8 tables
At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religi...
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£40,00
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Emperor of Liberty Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy
ISBN: HB: 9780300179934, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps
This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers a compelling reinterpretation of his attitudes and accomplishments as a statesman during America's early nationhood. Beginning with Jefferson's disastrous st...
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£25,00
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Edward Bancroft Scientist, Author, Spy
ISBN: PB: 9780300187458, Yale University Press, October 2012
352 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm, 4 black&white illus.
A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a sc...
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£30,00
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Enemies Within The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America
ISBN: PB: 9780300194722, Yale University Press, September 2012
370 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who su...
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£25,00
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Eighteen-Day Running Mate McGovern, Eagleton, and the Nation's Fear of Depression
ISBN: HB: 9780300176292, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
No skeletons were rattling in his closet, Thomas Eagleton assured George McGovern's political director. But only eighteen days later – after a series of damaging public revelations and feverish behind-the-scenes maneuverings – McGovern rescinded his...
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£54,00
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