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America

Accidental Pluralism America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662

Haefeli Evan

ISBN: HB: 9780226742618, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public arguments over the religious and political values that define it. In "Accidental Pluralism", Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diver...

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Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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America

Peculiar Places A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity

Lee Cartwright Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9780226696881, ISBN: HB: 9780226696911, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white nei...

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America

Skull Collectors Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead

Fabian Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226760575, ISBN: HB: 9780226233482, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a...

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Newsprint Metropolis City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans

Guarneri Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226758329, ISBN: HB: 9780226341330, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 59 halftones

At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business. Newspapers soon saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen dailies apiece....

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Women Studies

Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women

Moon Katie J.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982980, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

The history of women's activism in St. Louis began long before 1920, when Missouri ratified the Nineteenth Amendment and gave women the right to vote. Women have always been a fundamental – but too often unfairly forgotten – part of what made St. Lou...

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America

Singer's Needle An Undisciplined History of Panama

Vierba Ezer

ISBN: PB: 9780226342450, ISBN: HB: 9780226342313, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panama that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved criti...

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America

This Radical Land A Natural History of American Dissent

Miller Daegan

ISBN: PB: 9780226336282, ISBN: HB: 9780226336145, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature", wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America t...

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America

Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates

In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...

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Defectives in the Land Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

Baynton Douglas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226758633, ISBN: HB: 9780226364162, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant".Defectives in the Land", Douglas C. Baynton's groun...

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