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Medieval

Modulated Scream Pain in Late Medieval Culture

Cohen Esther

ISBN: HB: 9780226112671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrong doing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain – fro...

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America

Colored Property State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Freund David M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226262765, ISBN: HB: 9780226262758, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
526 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 5 line illus.

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial...

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Europe

Living Liberalism Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain

Hadley Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780226311883, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people th...

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Ancient World

Death in Babylon Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226037363, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
272 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 2 halftones

Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronic...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher

Harris Leonard, Molesworth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226317779, ISBN: HB: 9780226317762, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that "the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem". Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promot...

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Europe

New World Gold Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain

Vilches Elvira

ISBN: HB: 9780226856186, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
368 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spani...

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Christianity

Medieval

Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession Canonists, Civilians, and Courts

Brundage James A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226077604, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
560 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared in Western Europe seven hundred years later during the 1...

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Current Affairs

Architecture

Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America

Vanderbilt Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones

On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...

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Europe

Engineering the Revolution Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

Alder Ken

ISBN: PB: 9780226012643, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
496 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 32 halftones

"Engineering the Revolution" documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "technological life". Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of...

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America

Jewish Studies

Becoming American Jews Temple Israel of Boston

Dwyer-Ryan Meaghan, Porter Susan L., Fagin Davis Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9781584657903, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2009
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From its beginning in 1854 as a traditional German shul to its current status as the largest Reform synagogue in New England, Temple Israel has been an important force in Boston and American Jewish life. The congregation's ongoing efforts to adapt to...

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