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Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

Sewell William H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226770468, ISBN: HB: 9780226770321, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

There is little doubt that the political revolutions of the eighteenth century changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality find such fertile ground in France? What is the relationship between political ideas and econ...

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America

Wives Not Slaves Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions

Sword Kirsten

ISBN: HB: 9780226757483, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 tables

Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised their marital difficulties in the New Hampshire Gazette – a more common practice for the time and place than contemporary readers mig...

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America

General

Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

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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Christianity

America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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America

Steam City Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore

Schley David

ISBN: HB: 9780226720258, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a "rail-road" that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed thi...

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America

Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven

Schultz John

ISBN: PB: 9780226760742, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice...

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Asia

Cambodia From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond

Strangio Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780300211733, Yale University Press, August 2020
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 33 black&white illus.

To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio,...

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Asia

In the Dragon's Shadow Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century

Strangio Sebastian

ISBN: HB: 9780300234039, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps

Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacted by its claims over the South China Sea. All dwell in the lengthening shadow of its influence: economi...

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America

Unlikely General "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America

Stockwell Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300251876, Yale University Press, June 2020
376 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 22 black&white illus.

In the spring of 1792, President George Washington chose "Mad" Anthony Wayne to defend America from a potentially devastating threat. Native forces had decimated the standing army and Washington needed a champion to open the country stretching from t...

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Political Science

Military

Arms and Influence

Schelling Thomas C., Slaughter Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300246742, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities – real or imagined – are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows...

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