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America

National Duties Custom Houses and the Making of the American State

Rao Gautham

ISBN: HB: 9780226367071, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables

In the wake of the American Revolution, if you had asked a citizen whether his fledgling state would survive more than two centuries, the answer would have been far from confident. The problem, as is so often the case, was money. Left millions of dol...

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Media Studies

Literary Criticism

Network Aesthetics

Jagoda Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226346519, ISBN: HB: 9780226346489, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain".Network Aesthetics", in exploring how popular culture...

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Poetry

North in the World Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition

Jacobsen Rolf, Greenwald Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226333540, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"North in the World" presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish A...

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Literary Criticism

Novelty A History of the New

Michael North

ISBN: PB: 9780226325309, ISBN: HB: 9780226077871, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new – new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. But that desire for novelty carries with it a fundamental philosophical problem: If everything has to come...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy

Shah Chaynika, Merchant Raj, Mahajan Shalini, Nevatia Smriti

ISBN: PB: 9789384757687, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2015
287 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? "No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy" answers these questions by analyzing the lives of queer persons who were assigned the fe...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Non-Sovereign Futures French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment

Bonilla Yarimar

ISBN: PB: 9780226283814, ISBN: HB: 9780226283784, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions – or even paradoxes – in our current postcolonial era. In "Non-Sovereign Futures", Yarimar Bonilla w...

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Buddhism

Nothing Three Inquiries in Buddhism

Boon Marcus, Cazdyn Eric, Morton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780226233260, ISBN: HB: 9780226233123, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
296 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism – a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of...

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America

Nation of Neighborhoods Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

Looker Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226290317, ISBN: HB: 9780226073989, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 1 line drawing

Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In "A Nation of Neighborhoods", Benja...

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General

No Way Out Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing

Duck Waverly

ISBN: PB: 9780226298061, ISBN: HB: 9780226297903, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan fa...

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History

Nature's Ghosts Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology

Barrow Mark V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323657, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones

The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized – and worried about – the pr...

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