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Ancient World

Gere Cathy

ISBN: PB: 9780226289540, ISBN: HB: 9780226289533, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With "K...

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America

Digging Up the Dead A History of Notable American Reburials

Kammen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226423302, ISBN: HB: 9780226423296, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

With "Digging Up the Dead", Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grav...

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Ancient World

Shock of the Ancient Literature and History in Early Modern France

Norman Larry F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591483, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

he cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most ofte...

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Jewish Studies

Anti-Semitic Moment A Tour of France in 1898

Birnbaum Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780226052069, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In 1898, the Dreyfus Affair plunged French society into a yearlong frenzy. In Paris and provincial villages throughout the country, angry crowds paraded through the streets, threatening to attack Jews and destroy Jewish-owned businesses. Anger about...

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Evolution

Banquet at Delmonico's The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America

Werth Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226893846, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm

In "Banquet at Delmonico's", Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to post-Civil-War America. Each chapter is dedicated to a...

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Czech Elites and General Public Leadership, Cohesion and Democracy

Fric Pavol

ISBN: PB: 9788024618449, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2011
188 pp., 19.7x14 cm, 11 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This comprehensive volume examines the relationships between the ruling elites of the Czech Republic and the general public. Sociologist Pavol Fric and other expert contributors consider t...

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General

Political Epistemics The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism

Glaeser Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780226297941, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
640 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 17 line illus.

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution...

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Euphoria and Exhaustion Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society

Katzer Nikolaus, Budy Sandra, Kohring Alexandra, Zeller Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9783593392905, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...

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Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes

Gonzalez Olga M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226302713, ISBN: HB: 9780226302706, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
344 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 4 maps, 1 table, 31 colour illus.

The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly esc...

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Envisioning the Nation The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture

Boger Astrid

ISBN: PB: 9783593387901, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
321 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. But as Astrid Boger shows in "Envisioning the Nation", at the same time the fairs played i...

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