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America

Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918

Jenkins Jeffery A., Peck Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780226756363, ISBN: HB: 9780226756226, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 10 tables

Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress after the Civil War and during Reconstruction. But, as Reconstruction came to an end and legal and social discrimination against African Americans became widespread, civil rights...

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Africa

Darfur Allegory

Mustafa Abusharaf Rogaia

ISBN: PB: 9780226761725, ISBN: HB: 9780226761695, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's pol...

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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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Business & Economics

America

Bonds of Inequality Debt and the Making of the American City

Jenkins Destin

ISBN: HB: 9780226721545, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 10 tables

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities' dependency on municipal debt, and how the terms of municipal finance structures racial privileges, entrenches spatial neglect,...

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America

Surveying Early America The Point of Beginning: An Illustrated History

Terry Clinto

ISBN: PB: 9781947603028, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021
176 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 colour plates

At the age of sixteen, our first president began his professional life as a surveyor, going on to lead several expeditions to measure and map the American interior. The early surveyors, whether determining a colonial border, setting a boundary for a...

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Asia

Discourses of Weakness in Modern China Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia"

Riebold Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593509020, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
586 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the time of China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a "weak state" dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a...

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Asia

Realtime Making Digital China

Renaud Clement, Graezer Bideau Florence, Laperrouza Marc

ISBN: PB: 9782889153459, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Realtime is an investigation into China's digital and urban infrastructure, practices, and imaginary spaces. It attempts to capture the pace, scale, and depth of China's complex and changing reality. Realtime is a collection of original accounts, ana...

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America

Remembering Emmett Till

Tell Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780226559674, ISBN: HB: 9780226559537, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
322 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the Civil Rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate...

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America

City Creative The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America

Carriere Michael H., Schalliol David

ISBN: HB: 9780226727226, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 145 colour plates

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking – small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal. But the projec...

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Asia

East Asian Dimension of the First World War Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914-1919

Jan Schmidt, Katja Schmidtpott

ISBN: PB: 9783593507514, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2021
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 30 halftones

Though when people discuss World War I, they usually center on the fighting in Europe, it truly was a global war. This book examines the role of East Asia in the fighting. It looks at how East Asian commentators saw and interpreted the war, both in E...

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