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Practicing Utopia An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement
ISBN: HB: 9780226346038, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 halftones
The typical town springs up around a natural resource – a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor – or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with "new towns", which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are of...
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£36,00
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Human Shore Seacoasts in History
ISBN: PB: 9780226324296, ISBN: HB: 9780226922232, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones
Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun...
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Dispatches from Dystopia Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
ISBN: HB: 9780226242798, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 7 maps
"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks one chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montan...
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£19,00
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Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique Joints and Fissures
ISBN: PB: 9783593501925, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
398 pp., 21x13.9 cm
Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generall...
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£45,00
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WWII A Chronicle of Soldiering
ISBN: PB: 9780226180939, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing
In 1975, James Jones – the American author whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II – was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by...
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Trade and Romance
ISBN: HB: 9780226071572, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 table
In "Trade and Romance", Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows...
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£39,00
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Love and Freedom Three Lives in Hitler's Germany and Gandhi's India
ISBN: PB: 9789381017661, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 30 halftones
In the early 1930s, Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. There, Ayii, eventually became well-known journalist in Berlin and he met and fell in love with the reno...
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£11,50
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Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones
"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...
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£25,00
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£42,00
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Caribbean A History of the Region and Its Peoples
ISBN: PB: 9780226645087, ISBN: HB: 9780226645063, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
624 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 2 figures, 1 table, 71 halftones
Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the co...
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£32,50
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£88,50
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Three Ways to Be Alien Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9781584659921, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2011
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Sanjay Subrahmanyam's "Three Ways to Be Alien" draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian"...
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£28,00
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