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Culture Studies

Producing Cultural Diversity Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects

Niedner-Kalthoff Ulrike

ISBN: PB: 9783593503165, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
245 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate

How did cultural diversity become a buzzword fraught with tension? And what do the controversies surrounding it reveal about contemporary policy making? "Producing Cultural Diversity" investigates these questions through an empirical analysis of the...

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Jewish Studies

Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics

Nirenberg David

ISBN: PB: 9781611687781, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued bo...

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Medieval

Feast for the Eyes Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet

Normore Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780226242200, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 35 halftones

To read accounts of late medieval banquets is to enter a fantastic world where live lions guard nude statues, gilded stags burst into song, and musicians play from within pies. Such vivid works of art and performance required collaboration among arti...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 21

Nam Seungho, Ko Heejeong, Jun Jongho

ISBN: PB: 9781575866543, ISBN: HB: 9781575866536, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
500 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the twenty-first Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at Se...

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Political Science

Arbitrary Rule Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death

Nyquist Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226271798, ISBN: HB: 9780226015538, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 14 halftones

Slavery appears as a figurative construct in countless cultural and historical contexts, especially during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radical pamphleteers and theorist...

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Fiction

Suki

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789383074105, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In "Suki", Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. Taken as a whole, the picture she draws is a stunning evocation of the love and friendship shared between herself an...

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Contemporary Art

Jan Koblasa Grafika Prints

Neslehova Mahulena

ISBN: PB: 9788024625218, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
328 pp., 28.4x23.3 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A key personality in Czech modern art, Jan Koblasa works in diverse media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking, and he also makes costumes for the stage and screen, wri...

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America

Global Republic America's Inadvertent Rise to World Power

Ninkovich Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226164731, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world's stage. The country's economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy, and its leading position in international institutions tend to be seen as the result of a lo...

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Philosophy

Cur homo? A History of the Thesis of Man as a Replacement for Fallen Angels

Novotny Vojtech

ISBN: PB: 9788024625195, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Examining, outlining, elucidating, and supplementing the existing body of scholarship concerning the medieval theological supposition that man was created as a replacement for fallen angel...

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Jewish Studies

Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880-1918

Nemes Robert, Unowsky Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611685824, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This innovative collection of essays on the upsurge of antisemitism across Europe in the decades around 1900 shifts the focus away from intellectuals and well-known incidents to less-familiar events, actors, and locations, including smaller towns and...

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