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Insurance Era Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
ISBN: HB: 9780226784380, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an oft-unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry's political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime,...
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£32,00
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Imagining Judeo-Christian America Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226663852, ISBN: HB: 9780226663715, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Judeo-Christian" is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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I'd Fight the World A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226923000, ISBN: HB: 9780226922997, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Long before the United States had presidents from the world of movies and reality TV, we had scores of politicians with connections to country music. In "I'd Fight the World", Peter La Chapelle traces the deep bonds between country music and politics...
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£15,00
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£54,00
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Imagining Anchorage The Making of America's Northernmost Metropolis
ISBN: HB: 9781602233669, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2019
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 132 colour plates
Anchorage is an exceptional city. What was once a town site of tents is now the largest city in the state. It just celebrated its centenary in 2015, but it has seen inhabitants for millennia. It is an economic hub grown from railroads, gold, and oil....
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£34,00
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Islands of Sovereignty Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780226587417, ISBN: HB: 9780226587387, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 17 line drawings
In "Islands of Sovereignty", anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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In a Single Blow The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781611213799, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images, 6 maps
"I have now nothing to trouble your Lordship with, but an affair that happened on the 19th instant..." General Thomas Gage penned the above line to his superiors in London, casually summing up the shots fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 17...
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£12,00
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Indian Army in the First World War New Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781911512783, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 illus., 2 maps
The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians. It looks at the hist...
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£35,00
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In the Shadows of Victory II America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II
ISBN: HB: 9781612005461, Casemate, November 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.
During the course of America's existence, history has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in the public's collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the...
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£25,00
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In the Shadow of Bois Hugo The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos
ISBN: PB: 9781911512776, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., maps
This is the first book dedicated to the subject of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War – and this particular Kitchener battalion has been a neglected topic of study; however, there is a rich mine of informati...
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£16,00
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Integrating the Inner City The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation
ISBN: PB: 9780226478197, ISBN: HB: 9780226164397, University of Chicago Press, January 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 6 line drawings, 6 tables
For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their demolition and redevelopment – via the Chicago Housing Authority's "Plan for Transformation" – has been perhaps the most startling change in the city's urban la...
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