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Europeans Engaging the Atlantic Knowledge and Trade, 1500-1800

Lachenicht Susanne

ISBN: PB: 9783593501703, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
185 pp., 21x13.9 cm

"Europeans Engaging the Atlantic" offers innovative perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and on trade and commerce therewith. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Dreamland of Humanists Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

Levine Emily J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226272467, ISBN: HB: 9780226061689, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twenti...

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Education

Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship

Link Albert N., Siegel Donald S., Wright Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780226178349, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

As state support and federal research funding dwindle, universities are increasingly viewing their intellectual property portfolios as lucrative sources of potential revenue. Nearly all research universities now have a technology transfer office to m...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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General

Remittance Landscape Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA

Lopez Sarah Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780226202815, ISBN: HB: 9780226105130, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico – one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With "The Remittance Landscape", Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with th...

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Jewish Studies

Socrates and the Jews Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

Leonard Miriam

ISBN: PB: 9780226213347, ISBN: HB: 9780226472478, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged...

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History of Art

Ink, Paper, Politics WPA-Era Prints from the Needles Collection

Lincoln Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780978907488, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, October 2014
90 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 45 halftones

The Works Progress Administration gave federal financial support to a wide range of artistic projects during the Depression, from fiction to fine art. Of all these forms, however, the printmaking supported by the WPA is perhaps the one of most enduri...

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General

Renegade Dreams Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

Laurence Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226032719, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 tables

Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city" and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our foc...

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Anthropology

Wax and Gold Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture

Levine Donald N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226215440, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Abyssinian poetry, the "wax"‌ is the obvious meaning, the "gold"‌ is the hidden meaning. In "Wax and Gold", Donald N. Levine explores mid-to-late-twentieth-century Ethiopian society on the same two levels, using modern sociology and psychology to...

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Europe

Between History and Myth Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: HB: 9780226140926, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 12 line drawings, 29 tables

All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt t...

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