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Resistible Rise of Antisemitism Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland

Engelstein Laura

ISBN: PB: 9781684580095, ISBN: HB: 9781684580088, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2020
250 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Antisemitism emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century as a powerful political movement with broad popular appeal. It promoted a vision of the world in which a closely-knit tribe called "the Jews" conspired to dominate the globe through contro...

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America

Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination

Gradert Kenyon

ISBN: HB: 9780226694023, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. "Puritan" is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear...

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America

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Taking Leave, Taking Liberties American Troops on the World War II Home Front

Hiltner Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226687049, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be "overpaid, oversexed, and over here". But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn't only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by th...

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America

Nature of the Future Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North

Pawley Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780226693835, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. "The Nature of the Future" aims to rema...

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America

Liberty Power Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics

Brooks Corey M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717166, ISBN: HB: 9780226307282, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage – but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties".Liberty Power" tells the story of h...

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Christianity

America

Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering

Corrigan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...

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America

Latin America The Allure and Power of an Idea

Tenorio-Trillo Mauricio

ISBN: PB: 9780226705200, ISBN: HB: 9780226443065, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with th...

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America

Daily Thomas Paine A Year of Common-Sense Quotes for a Nonsensical Age

Paine Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226653518, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a founding father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis", Paine codified both co...

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Political Science

America

Learning One's Native Tongue Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America

Strong Tracy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226623221, ISBN: HB: 9780226623191, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political...

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Europe

Merchants, Pirates, and Smugglers Criminalization, Economics, and the Transformation of the Maritime World (1200-1600)

Heeboll-Holm Thomas, Hohn Philipp, Rohmann Gregor

ISBN: PB: 9783593509792, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
431 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 halftone

Maritime history tends to draw stark lines between legal and illegal trading practices, with the naval and commercial vessels of sovereign states on one side and rogue pirates and smugglers on the other. This book reveals how, in the centuries before...

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