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Racial Stasis The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226643625, ISBN: HB: 9780226643595, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 40 line drawings
Racial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nationalism is but one manifestation of this. Most Americans continue to hope that the younger generation, which many believe manifests less racism and more acceptance of a mu...
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Sovereignty, Inc. Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment
ISBN: PB: 9780226668413, ISBN: HB: 9780226668383, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the co-authors of "Sovereignty, Inc." argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding – s...
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America's Inequality Trap
ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables
The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...
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Contours of the Illiberal State Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy
ISBN: PB: 9783593510170, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2019
292 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 halftones
The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete – at least in theory. The essays collected in this...
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Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry Channeling Wittgenstein
ISBN: HB: 9780226661278, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive pract...
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How to Lobby Alaska State Government
ISBN: PB: 9781602233959, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lobbying is about getting the right message to the right people in the right form at the right time. Even the most persuasive arguments or most influential groups will come up short if they aren't combined with personal connections and an understandi...
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Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings
Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...
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Authoritarian Apprehensions Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria
ISBN: PB: 9780226650609, ISBN: HB: 9780226650579, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 6 line drawings
If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In "Authoritarian Apprehensi...
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Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...
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Politics of Petulance America in an Age of Immaturity
ISBN: PB: 9780226679112, ISBN: HB: 9780226555164, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
"How did we get into this mess?" Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he's complaining about or who he's atta...
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