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Freedom of Speech Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World
ISBN: PB: 9780226657684, ISBN: HB: 9780226655925, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
The institution of slavery has always depended on enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in "The Freedom of Speech", across the Anglo-Caribbean world the fundamental distinction b...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands
ISBN: HB: 9788024635774, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
134 pp., 37.3x30.5 cm, 360 maps, 110 figures
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This bilingual, English-Czech atlas of Czechoslovakia is one of the first to use statistical data to evaluate spatial aspects of population development over time. Its twelve chapters prese...
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£37,50
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Boystown Sex and Community in Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226413396, ISBN: HB: 9780226413259, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing
From neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this tr...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Walls Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape
ISBN: HB: 9780226199245, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pe...
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£36,00
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Face Value The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226629384, ISBN: HB: 9780226629377, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of G...
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£25,00
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£65,50
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Women in the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9780300080803, Yale University Press, October 1999
414 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
As Jews throughout Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish women-wives, daughters, mothers-encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This is the first book of original scholarship devoted to women in the Holocaust. Testimonies of...
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£26,00
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