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From Old Regime to Industrial State A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I

Tilly Richard H., Kopsidis Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226725437, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 23 line drawings, 66 tables

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead co...

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America

States of Exception in American History

Gerstle Gary, Isaac Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226712321, ISBN: HB: 9780226712291, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

"States of Exception in American History" brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the p...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 27

Barrie Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781684000685, University of Chicago Press, Tenov Books, August 2020
429 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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America

After Redlining The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

Marchiel Rebecca K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226723648, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding an...

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Middle East

Unfinished Arab Spring Micro-Dynamics of Revolts between Change and Continuity

El Issawi Fatima, Cavatorta Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9781909942486, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, August 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The aim of this volume is to adopt an original analytical approach in explaining various dynamics at work behind the Arab Spring, through giving voice to local dynamics and legacies rather than concentrating on debates about paradigms. It highlights...

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Sport

Alaska Native Games and How to Play Them

Nuyaqik Brown Tricia, Kitmiiq Spiess Joni

ISBN: PB: 9781602234185, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

The athletes of the Alaska Native games aren't just returning to their roots. They've never left them. In this beautifully illustrated book, readers learn the history of twenty-five Native games that have been handed down through generations, how eac...

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General

Upsold Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality

Besbris Max

ISBN: PB: 9780226721378, ISBN: HB: 9780226721231, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing, 5 tables

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold...

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Philosophy

Value, Conflict, and Order Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

Hall Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780226718316, ISBN: HB: 9780226718286, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, dr...

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Law

What's Legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights

Mattutat Liza, Nigro Roberto, Schiel Nadine, Stubenrauch Heiko

ISBN: PB: 9783035802436, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the othe...

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History

Before Nature Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science

Rochberg Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780226759586, ISBN: HB: 9780226406138, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and always has – but "Before Nature" explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of "nature" – no word, reference, or sense fo...

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