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Anthropology

Value of Labor The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956

Lampland Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226314600, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 5 tables

At the heart of today's fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor. Most of us think wage-labor economics is at odds with socialist thinking, but as Mar...

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Contemporary Art

Europe

Art of the Multitude Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience

Vickery Jonathen P., Manus Mechtild

ISBN: PB: 9783593505640, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
200 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm, 50 colour plates

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...

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America

General

Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

Rabig Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226388311, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in "The Fixers", Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In...

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America

From Power to Prejudice The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America

Gordon Leah N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419411, ISBN: HB: 9780226238449, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intell...

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America

Chicago's Block Clubs How Neighbors Shape the City

Seligman Amanda I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226385853, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? F...

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Other

America

Landscapes of the Secular Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space

Howe Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780226376776, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?" asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It's a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren't seeing American landsca...

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America

Paying with Their Bodies American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran

Kinder John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420714, ISBN: HB: 9780226210094, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The p...

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Middle East

Pearl of Khorasan A History of Herat

Gammell C. P. W.

ISBN: HB: 9781849046541, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has been much more than simply a staging post or plaything of political ambition. It has be...

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Africa

Understanding Zimbabwe From Liberation to Authoritarianism and Beyond

Rich Dorman Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781849045834, ISBN: HB: 9781849045827, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Zimbabwe's recent history has been shaped by battles about who speaks for the nation, one fought out in struggles for control of political institutions, the media, and civil society. In her book Sara Rich Dorman examines the in...

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Military

Passchendaele The Untold Story

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300221213, Yale University Press, August 2016
280 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied...

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