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Women Studies

Biography & Memoires

Mothers of Manipur Twelve Women Who Made History

Rehman Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9789384757762, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On July 15, 2004, twelve women, all in their sixties and seventies, positioned themselves in front of the gates of the Kangla Fort in Manipur, India – the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. One by one, the women stripped the...

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Jewish Studies

General

Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought

Goldberg Chad Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226460550, ISBN: HB: 9780226460413, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphas...

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America

Melting the Ice Curtain The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-Alaska Frontier

Ramseur David

ISBN: PB: 9781602233348, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 1 map

Just five years after a Soviet missile blew a civilian airliner out of the sky over the North Pacific, an Alaska Airlines jet braved Cold War tensions to fly into tomorrow. Crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and the Russian Far East, the 1988...

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Philosophy

History

Myth of Disenchantment Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

Josephson-Storm Jason A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226403366, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 figures

A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppr...

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Anthropology

Mobile Secrets Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique

Soleil Archambault Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780226447575, ISBN: HB: 9780226447438, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, improved access to telecomm...

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Philosophy

Machiavelli's Politics

Zuckert Catherine H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226434803, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
512 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous "Machiavellian" politics laid down in his landmark political treatise "The Prince". Others cite the "Discourses on Livy" to argue that Machiavelli is actually...

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Anthropology

Mediterranean Incarnate Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II

Ben-Yehoyada Naor

ISBN: PB: 9780226451022, ISBN: HB: 9780226450971, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

In "The Mediterranean Incarnate", anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the "Naumachos" for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and Tunisia. He also takes us on a historical exploration of the past eighty years...

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Medieval

Travel

Medieval Invention of Travel

Legassie Shayne Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226446622, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During...

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Political Science

More Than a Feeling Personality, Polarization, and the Transformation of the US Congress

Ramey Adam J., Klingler Jonathan D., Hollibaugh Jr. Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226455983, ISBN: HB: 9780226455846, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 23 tables

Whatever you think about the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, ideological differences do not explain why politicians from the same parties, who share the same goals and policy preferences, often argue fiercely about how best to atta...

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Music

Music in the World Selected Essays

Taylor Timothy D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226442396, ISBN: HB: 9780226442259, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 4 tables

In music studies, Timothy D. Taylor is known for his insightful essays on music, globalization, and capitalism".Music in the World" is a collection of some of Taylor's most recent writings – essays concerned with questions about music in capitalist c...

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