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Last Slave Ships New York and the End of the Middle Passage
ISBN: HB: 9780300247336, Yale University Press, January 2021
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 21 black&white illus.
Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the A...
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Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables
History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...
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Lakota America A New History of Indigenous Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300255256, ISBN: HB: 9780300215953, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty?first century. Pekka Hنmنlنinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter?gatherers and reveals how the...
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Lost Black Scholar Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780226754437, ISBN: HB: 9780226534886, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Allison Davis (1902-1983), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America's...
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Last Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300217803, Yale University Press, September 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did – in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that inf...
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Lonely Crowd A Study of the Changing American Character
ISBN: PB: 9780300246735, Yale University Press, May 2020
376 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, "The Lonely Crowd" opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the problems confronting the individual in twentieth-century America. Richard Sennett's new...
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Liberty Power Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226717166, ISBN: HB: 9780226307282, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage – but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties".Liberty Power" tells the story of h...
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Latin America The Allure and Power of an Idea
ISBN: PB: 9780226705200, ISBN: HB: 9780226443065, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with th...
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Learning One's Native Tongue Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226623221, ISBN: HB: 9780226623191, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political...
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Looking Forward Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
ISBN: HB: 9780226475004, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possi...
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