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Europe
Prague Palimpsest Writing, Memory, and the City
Thomas Alfred
ISBN: HB: 9780226795409, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly...
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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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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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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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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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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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Biography & Memoires
Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow
Dwork Deborah
ISBN: HB: 9780226511863, University of Chicago Press, October 2008
280 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 124 colour illus.
"With simple means, without any 'title', this book should in distant times always be in your memory". An imprisoned bookbinder wrote these words in a small blank book that he had secretly crafted from pilfered materials at the Terezin (Theresienst...
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Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew An Italian Story
Vittorio Segre Dan
ISBN: PB: 9780226744773, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
284 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head". From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mu...
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From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success
Frusztajer Boruch B.
ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...
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