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Literary Criticism

Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries

Chapman Alison A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226729299, ISBN: HB: 9780226729152, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts betwee...

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Education

Other Boston Busing Story What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line

Eaton Susan E.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580293, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous violence and rage that greeted forced school busing wi...

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Cartography

Dislocating the Orient British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

Foliard Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226755724, ISBN: HB: 9780226451336, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 45 halftones, 2 line drawings

While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With "Dislocating the Orient", Daniel Foliard tells the story o...

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Business & Economics

Do Epic Stuff! Leadership after Change Management

Esteban Rene

ISBN: HB: 9783593511955, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2020
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The fast-paced energy of contemporary society is riddled with distractions, disappointments, and discouragement. From our home lives to our work lives, feeling driven and creative has become exceedingly difficult. The methods of change management are...

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Philosophy

Pragmatism's Evolution Organism and Environment in American Philosophy

Pearce Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226719917, ISBN: HB: 9780226719887, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and ev...

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Political Science

Probable Justice Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State

Friedman Rachel Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226730936, ISBN: HB: 9780226730769, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same t...

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Fiction

Radio Works: 1946-48

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9783035802504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most expe...

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Chemistry

Rainbow Palate How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food

Cobbold Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226727059, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 tables

We live in a world saturated by chemicals – our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth century. By the 1900s, a wave of bright coal tar dyes had begun to transform...

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History

Forbidden Knowledge Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

Marcus Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780226736587, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on libra...

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Political Science

How the Tea Party Captured the GOP Insurgent Factions in American Politics

Blum Rachel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226687520, ISBN: HB: 9780226687490, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 line drawings, 3 tables

The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its influenc...

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