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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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Film Studies

Philosophy

Philosophical Hitchcock "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226668246, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 36 halftones

On the surface, "The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness", is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo". This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative phi...

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Jewish Studies

Literary Criticism

Right to Difference French Universalism and the Jews

Samuels Maurice

ISBN: PB: 9780226677323, ISBN: HB: 9780226397054, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country's Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...

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Law

Antitrust Law Second Edition

Posner Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226684130, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on anti...

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Contemporary Art

Beverly Fresh Really Somethin Else

Rodrigues Widholm Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780996235020, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, July 2019
268 pp., 17.7x24.1 cm, 150 colour plates

An experimental "expanded catalog" chronicling the recent work and 2018 solo exhibition of artist Beverly Fresh, "Really Somethin Else" not only documents and contextualizes the work in the exhibition, but also includes research, sketches, production...

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Political Science

Black Wave How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters

Aldrich Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226638430, ISBN: HB: 9780226638263, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 12 tables

Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have k...

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Music

Sex, Death, and Minuets Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks

Yearsley David

ISBN: HB: 9780226617701, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 35 line drawings, 2 tables

At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701-1760) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history's most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her cont...

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Ecology

Stockholm Paradigm Climate Change and Emerging Disease

Brooks Daniel R., Hoberg Eric P., Boeger Walter A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226632445, ISBN: HB: 9780226632308, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 40 line drawings

The contemporary crisis of emerging disease has been a century and a half in the making. Human, veterinary, and crop health practitioners convinced themselves that disease could be controlled by medicating the sick, vaccinating those at risk, and era...

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Philosophy

Heidegger The Question of Being and History

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226678924, ISBN: HB: 9780226355115, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 tables

Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the Ecole Normale Superieure,...

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Philosophy

Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing Constructing "Democracy and Social Ethics"

Fischer Marilyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226631325, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In "Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing", Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams's reasoning in her first book, "Democracy and Social Ethics", is thoroughly evolutionary. While "Democracy and Social Ethics", a foundational...

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