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General

Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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Medieval

Boccaccio's "Decameron" Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition

Cervigni Dino S.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986069, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
554 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This study develops a new interpretation of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, which has found new popularity in the wake of COVID. Dino S. Cervigni offers an inclusive and novel reading of the collection, theorizing that the first nine...

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America

Peculiar Places A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity

Lee Cartwright Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9780226696881, ISBN: HB: 9780226696911, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white nei...

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Europe

She Being Dead Yet Speaketh The Franklin Family Papers

Franklin Mary, Burton Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780866986236, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones, 40 figures

On Black Bartholomew's Day – August 24, 1662 – nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the...

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America

Skull Collectors Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead

Fabian Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226760575, ISBN: HB: 9780226233482, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a...

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America

Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans

Guarneri Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226758329, ISBN: HB: 9780226341330, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 59 halftones

At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business. Newspapers soon saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen dailies apiece....

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries

Coquard Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...

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Music

Europe

Political Orchestra The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich

Trumpi Fritz

ISBN: PB: 9780226760261, ISBN: HB: 9780226251394, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 5 tables

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trumpi offers new insight into the orchestras...

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America

Women Studies

Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women

Moon Katie J.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982980, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

The history of women's activism in St. Louis began long before 1920, when Missouri ratified the Nineteenth Amendment and gave women the right to vote. Women have always been a fundamental – but too often unfairly forgotten – part of what made St. Lou...

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America

Singer's Needle An Undisciplined History of Panama

Vierba Ezer

ISBN: PB: 9780226342450, ISBN: HB: 9780226342313, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panama that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved criti...

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