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None of Your Damn Business Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

Cappello Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9780226557748, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

You can hardly pass through customs at an airport today without having your picture taken and your fingertips scanned, that information then stored in an archive you'll never see. Nor can you use your home's smart technology without wondering what, e...

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Anthropology

America

Afterlives of Indigenous Archives

Schweitzer Ivy, Henry Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9781512603651, ISBN: HB: 9781512603644, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Afterlives of Indigenous Archives" offers a compelling critique of Western archives and their use in the development of "digital humanities". The essays collected here present the work of an international and interdisciplinary group of indigenous sc...

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America

Alaska in the Progressive Age A Political History, 1896 to 1916

Alton Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781602233843, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of...

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America

Cul de Sac Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue

Cheney Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226679259, ISBN: HB: 9780226079356, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkab...

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America

Remembrance of Things Present The Invention of the Time Capsule

Yablon Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226574134, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones

Time capsules may seem trivial and useless to historians, but, as Nick Yablon shows in this new book, they offer crucial insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, and their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things P...

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Military

America

Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War

Darda Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...

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Political Science

America

Democracy and Dysfunction

Levinson Sanford, Balkin Jack M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226612041, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on...

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Political Science

Law

Federal Impeachment Process A Constitutional and Historical Analysis (Third Edition)

Gerhardt Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226554839, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Twenty years after President Clinton's impeachment proceedings, talk of impeachment is again in the air. But what are the grounds for impeaching a sitting president? Who is subject to impeachment? Is impeachment effective as a safeguard against presi...

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Political Science

America

How States Shaped Postwar America State Government and Urban Power

Dagen Bloom Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780226498317, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 2 line drawings

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and e...

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Culture Studies

America

War for the Soul of America A History of the Culture Wars (Second Edition)

Hartman Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226621913, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When it was published in 2015, Andrew Hartman's history of the culture wars was widely praised for its compelling and even-handed account of the way they developed and came to define American politics as the twentieth century drew to its close. Recei...

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