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Anthropology

World

Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany

Evans Andrew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...

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America

Scientific Life A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226750255, ISBN: HB: 9780226750248, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
486 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 16 halftones

Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts – indeed, highly respected experts – authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and w...

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Islam

Medieval

Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages

Touati Houari

ISBN: HB: 9780226808772, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures – touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North...

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Europe

Medieval

Why Europe? The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path

Mitterauer Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226532530, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Why did capitalism and colonialism arise in Europe and not elsewhere? Why were parliamentarian and democratic forms of government founded there? What factors led to Europe's unique position in shaping the world? Thoroughly researched and persuasively...

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America

General

Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Roderick Libby

ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones

Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...

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Europe

Rethinking France Les Lieux de memoire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories

Nora Pierre, Jordan David P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226591353, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
504 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 77 halftones

The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the histor...

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Enlightenment and the Book Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America

Sher Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752532, ISBN: HB: 9780226752525, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
848 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 45 halftones, 16 line illus.

The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these semina...

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America

Political Science

Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate

Koger Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226449654, ISBN: HB: 9780226449647, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 51 line illus.

In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislativ...

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America

Unsettling History Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

Jobs Sebastian, Ludtke Alf

ISBN: PB: 9783593388182, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2010
253 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. With "Unsettling History", a group of historians extend that challenge to two central compon...

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Asia

Technology & Engineering

Nucleus and Nation Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India

Anderson Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226019758, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
736 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 9 tables, 16 halftones

In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb. But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before, as India sought both independence from the British...

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