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Culture Studies

Market Day in Provence

de La Pradelle Michele, Jacobs Amy

ISBN: PB: 9780226141855, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

At farmers' markets, we expect to see fruit bursting with juicy sweetness and vegetables greener than a golf course. For Michele de La Pradelle these expectations are mostly the result of a show performed by merchants and sustained by our propensity...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Non-Sovereign Futures French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment

Bonilla Yarimar

ISBN: PB: 9780226283814, ISBN: HB: 9780226283784, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions – or even paradoxes – in our current postcolonial era. In "Non-Sovereign Futures", Yarimar Bonilla w...

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Culture Studies

Urban Appetites Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

Lobel Cindy R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226322674, ISBN: HB: 9780226128757, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 5 maps

Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international no...

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America

Culture Studies

Riotous Flesh Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

Haynes April R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226284620, ISBN: HB: 9780226284590, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death".Riotous Flesh" explores women's leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and p...

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America

Culture Studies

Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

Bennett Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226323794, ISBN: HB: 9780226042930, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Our traditional image of Chicago – as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends – is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to no...

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General

Insane Chicago Way The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia

Hagedorn John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226232935, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 12 tables

"The Insane Chicago Way" is the untold story of a daring plan by Chicago gangs in the 1990s to create a Spanish Mafia – and why it failed. John M. Hagedorn traces how Chicago Latino gang leaders, following in Al Capone's footsteps, built a sophistica...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Lived Practice

Jacob Mary Jane, Zeller Kate

ISBN: PB: 9780982879887, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"A Lived Practice" examines the reciprocal relationship of art and life: Artist-practitioners are shaped by their experiences, and they in turn create and enhance the experience of others. Based on a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret

Rupp Leila J., Taylor Verta

ISBN: PB: 9780226326566, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has filled...

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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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Culture Studies

Cartoon Art

Mutants and Mystics Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226271484, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
376 pp., 21.5x15 cm, 60 colour illus.

In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men", th...

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