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Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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America

Of War and Men World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families

LaRossa Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226467436, ISBN: HB: 9780226467429, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
328 pp., 25x15 cm

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. This common but limited stereotype obscures the remarkable diversity of their experiences and those of their children. To uncover the real...

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Jewish Studies

America

Observing America's Jews

Sklare Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9781584655640, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2006
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish history.

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