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Business & Economics

Varieties of Family Business Germany and the United States, Past and Present

Berghoff Hartmut, Kohler Ingo

ISBN: PB: 9783593512464, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 60 halftones, 30 tables, 20 figures

The idea of a business owned by a family and passed down from generation to generation sits firmly in our cultural imagination. And family businesses are of central importance in both Germany and in the United States. Still, there are significant dif...

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America

Appalachia as Contested Borderland of the Early Modern Atlantic, 1528-1715

Borchard Kimberly C.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986328, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, March 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

This monograph explores the European obsession with Appalachian mineral resources during the years between 1528 and 1715, reframing Appalachian history within the fields of Latin American, early American, and Atlantic history. While political activis...

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Performing Arts

Witches Vanish

Barnett Claudia

ISBN: PB: 9780887486654, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In a series of stylized, highly visual vignettes employing puppetry, poetry, and surrealism, the Weird Sisters from Macbeth explore the stories of women who disappear, whether by choice or force. Inspired by history, astronomy, and Shakespeare, Witch...

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Reference

Fighter in Velvet Gloves Study Guide

Boochever Annie

ISBN: PB: 9781602234451, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1945, Elizabeth Peratrovich stood before the Alaska Territorial Legislative Session and gave a powerful speech about her childhood and her experiences being treated as a second-class citizen. Her heartfelt testimony led to the passing of the landm...

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Law

Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery in the Time of Queen Anne (1702 to 1714)

Bryson W. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986410, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, February 2021
736 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book is a part of an ongoing project to publish the early modern manuscript law reports from the Court of Chancery during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). This new edition triples the number of case reports currently in print, making them ac...

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Media Studies

Connect and Divide The Practice Turn in Media Studies

Bergermann Ulrike, Dommann Monika, Schuttpelz Erhard, Stolow Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9783035800517, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
386 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Media is a kind of gatekeeper, connecting disparate entities and shielding them from one another at the same time. When we speak of media, we often refer to those entities themselves – to persons, organizations, artifacts, signals, and inscriptions –...

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Music

Anthropology

Mbira's Restless Dance An Archive of Improvisation

Berliner Paul F., Magaya Cosmas

ISBN: spiral: 9780226626277, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
912 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 597 musical examples

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya's "Mbira's Restless Dance" documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart...

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Media Studies

Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks

Blevins Jeffrey, Lee James

ISBN: PB: 9781947602847, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

While social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful poli...

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America

On The Ho Chi Minh Trail A Journey through Vietnam and Laos

Buchanan Sherry

ISBN: HB: 9781916346307, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, January 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 colour images, 12 maps

Part travelogue, part history, and part reflective meditation on conflict and reconciliation, Sherry Buchanan's new book offers both a personal and historical exploration of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, highlighting the critical role the Trail and the you...

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Women Studies

Women and Partition A Reader

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: PB: 9788189013363, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
400 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm

Urvashi Butalia's work on the subject of Partition, the 1947 division of the Indian subcontinent, is internationally known. Her book "The Other Side of Silence" has been translated into more than ten languages and won several awards. In this new coll...

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