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Restricted Data The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226020389, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered...
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£28,00
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Athenaeum "More Than Just Another London Club"
ISBN: HB: 9780300246773, Yale University Press, September 2020
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
When it was founded in 1824, the Athen?um broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated...
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£35,00
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Archipelago of Justice Law in France's Early Modern Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300244007, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 14 black&white illus.
This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial su...
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£50,00
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American Catholics A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300219647, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.
This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice...
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£22,50
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Angel in the Marketplace Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America
ISBN: HB: 9780226486321, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
The popular image of a midcentury adwoman is of a feisty girl beating men at their own game, a female Horatio Alger protagonist battling her way through the sexist workplace. But before the fictional rise of Peggy Olson or the real-life stories of Pa...
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£24,00
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Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226691428, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
496 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the histor...
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£16,00
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Crap A History of Cheap Stuff in America
ISBN: HB: 9780226664354, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 105 halftones
Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap. Abundant cheap stuff is about as American as...
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£23,99
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Great River City How the Mississippi Shaped St. Louis
ISBN: PB: 9781883982959, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
240 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 151 colour plates, 199 halftone
For St. Louis, the Mississippi has always been more than just a river. It's been the focus of the local economy, a shaping force on millions of lives, and a mirror for the city's triumphs, embarrassments, joys, and tragedies. Through fifty-six snapsh...
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£27,00
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Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...
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£22,00
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£64,00
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Postwar Moment Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II
ISBN: HB: 9780300124354, Yale University Press, March 2019
560 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 29 black&white illus.
After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original...
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£30,00
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