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Military

Sheer Misery Soldiers in Battle in WWII

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780226753140, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps

Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran into a new problem when we walked", Stewart wrote, "the shorts and I didn't get along. They would c...

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America

Surveying Early America The Point of Beginning: An Illustrated History

Terry Clinto

ISBN: PB: 9781947603028, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021
176 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 colour plates

At the age of sixteen, our first president began his professional life as a surveyor, going on to lead several expeditions to measure and map the American interior. The early surveyors, whether determining a colonial border, setting a boundary for a...

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Europe

She Being Dead Yet Speaketh The Franklin Family Papers

Franklin Mary, Burton Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780866986236, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones, 40 figures

On Black Bartholomew's Day – August 24, 1662 – nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the...

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America

Skull Collectors Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead

Fabian Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226760575, ISBN: HB: 9780226233482, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a...

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America

Surviving Genocide Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Ostler Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300255362, ISBN: HB: 9780300218121, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.

In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts...

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America

Singer's Needle An Undisciplined History of Panama

Vierba Ezer

ISBN: PB: 9780226342450, ISBN: HB: 9780226342313, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panama that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved criti...

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Ancient World

Sparta's Second Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C.

Rahe Paul Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300242621, Yale University Press, September 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six-decades-long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars....

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Europe

Substate Dictatorship Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union

Gorlizki Yoram, Khlevniuk Oleg

ISBN: HB: 9780300230819, Yale University Press, September 2020
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

How do local leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk examine these questions by looking at one of the most important authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. Starting in the ear...

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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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Polonica

Security Empire The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe

Pucci Molly

ISBN: HB: 9780300242577, Yale University Press, August 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differi...

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