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Political Science

Mixed Emotions Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict

Ross Andrew A. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226077420, ISBN: HB: 9780226077390, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In recent years, it's become increasingly clear that emotion plays a central role in global politics. For example, people readily care about acts of terrorism and humanitarian crises because they appeal to our compassion for human suffering. These st...

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America

American Capitals A Historical Geography

Montes Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226080482, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 6 line drawings, 42 tables

State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national identity. Learning them by heart is a rite of passage in grade school, a pedagogical exercise that emphasizes the importance of committin...

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Jewish Studies

Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia Select Documents, 1772-1914

Freeze Chaeran Y., Harris Jay M.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684551, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2013
664 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book makes accessible – for the first time in English – declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotia...

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Europe

Economy of Glory From Ancien Regime France to the Fall of Napoleon

Morrissey Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780226924588, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

From the outset of Napoleon's career, the charismatic Corsican was compared to mythic heroes of antiquity like Achilles, and even today he remains the apotheosis of French glory, a value deeply embedded in the country's history. From this angle, the...

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Culture Studies

Melancholia's Dog Reflections on Our Animal Kinship

Kuzniar Alice A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102702, ISBN: HB: 9780226465784, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cr...

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Education

Schooling Citizens The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America

Moss Hilary J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102986, ISBN: HB: 9780226542492, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 2 maps, 4 line drawings, 7 tables

While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary...

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Music

Operas of Giuseppe Verdi

Basevi Abramo

ISBN: HB: 9780226094915, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 – from "Nabucco"...

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Cartography

London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689

Batchelor Robert K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226080659, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trade...

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Political Science

Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861

Currie David P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226116310, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 23.6x17 cm

The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretat...

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Philosophy

Deconstructing Dignity A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate

Cutler Shershow Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226088129, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In "Deconstructing Dignity", Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philos...

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