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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Dangerous Earth What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More

Prager Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780226541693, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 24 halftones

The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can als...

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Geography

History

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 1 A Critical Edition

von Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226651385, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
632 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 64 tables

Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1...

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Geography

History

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 2 A Critical Edition

von Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226651552, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 180 tables

Volume 2 of this critical edition includes the translation of Volumes 3 and 4 of the second, revised French edition of Alexander von Humboldt's "Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne" from 1825 to 1827 as well as notes, supplements, i...

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Cartography

When Maps Become the World

Gronfeldt Winther Rasmus

ISBN: PB: 9780226674728, ISBN: HB: 9780226669670, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 37 halftones

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our re...

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Cartography

Europe

Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe

Piechocki Katharina N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region

Markon Carl

ISBN: PB: 9781602233973, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
225 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 figures, 38 halftone

The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...

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Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 4 Cartography in the European Enlightenment

Edney Matthew H., Sponberg Pedley Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226184753, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
1920 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 962 colour plates, 4 line drawings, 6 tables

Since its launch in 1987, the "History of Cartography" series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. "Cartography in the European Enlightenment", the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a com...

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Cartography

America

Atlas of Boston History

Seasholes Nancy S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226631158, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
208 pp., 35.5x27.9 cm, 57 colour plates

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolutionary War through the civil rights movement, Boston has also been an influential literary and cultural ca...

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Cartography

Cartography The Ideal and Its History

Edney Matthew H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226605685, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
296 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 65 halftones

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has pr...

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Cartography

After the Map Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century

Rankin William

ISBN: PB: 9780226600536, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 colour plates, 144 halftones

For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predi...

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