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Compensations of Plunder How China Lost Its Treasures
ISBN: PB: 9780226712017, ISBN: HB: 9780226711966, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely seen as "stolen" or "plundered" from their countries of origin, and demands for their return grow loud...
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Congress Overwhelmed The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform
ISBN: PB: 9780226702575, ISBN: HB: 9780226702438, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 line drawings, 43 tables
Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn't have the internal capacity to do what...
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Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Australia and the United States
ISBN: PB: 9780932171696, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 colour plates
This volume of essays frames a comparative history of landscape painting in Australia and the United States through recent considerations of the Anthropocene, arguing that careful and deep analysis of specific nineteenth-century artworks reveals issu...
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Church State Corporation Construing Religion in US Law
ISBN: PB: 9780226454696, ISBN: HB: 9780226454559, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is "the church," and how is it understood in US law today? In "Church State Corporation", religion...
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Campaign Finance and American Democracy What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780226712949, ISBN: HB: 9780226712802, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 53 tables
In recent decades, and particularly since the Supreme court's controversial "Citizens United" decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve people's faith in the election process, i...
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£72,00
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Catastrophic Thinking Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
ISBN: HB: 9780226348612, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded – by scientists, by the media, by popular culture – of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently producing a sixth mass extinction, perhaps of even greater...
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Chemical Age How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
ISBN: HB: 9780226697246, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
For thousands of years, we've found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with vast unintended consequences – typically not truly underst...
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Calamity Form On Poetry and Social Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226701318, ISBN: HB: 9780226701288, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Romanticism coincided with two major historical developments: the Industrial Revolution, and with it, a turning point in our relationship to the earth, its inhabitants, and its climate. Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, "The Calamity Form...
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Cost of Inclusion How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses
ISBN: PB: 9780226704050, ISBN: HB: 9780226703862, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 tables
Young people are told that college is a place where they will "find themselves" by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image col...
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£62,00
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Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226691428, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
496 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the histor...
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