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America

On Time Delivery The Dog Team Mail Carriers

Schneider William S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231672, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2012
160 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 50 halftones

From the turn of the twentieth century in interior Alaska, dog team mail carriers were charged with maintaining the trail systems and carrying the mail until they were replaced in the late 1930s and '40s by airplane mail service. With the advent and...

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Asia

America

Objectifying China, Imagining America Chinese Commodities in Early America

Frank Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226260280, ISBN: HB: 9780226260273, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 49 halftones, 1 line illus.

With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds – and account books – of eighteen...

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Education

General

Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite

Beasley Maya A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...

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Music

Europe

Opera and Sovereignty Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Feldman Marian H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226241135, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
584 pp., 25.5x18.7 cm, 26 musical examples, 10 tables, 46 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart".Opera and Sovereignty" is the first book to addres...

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Earth Sciences

History

Osiris, Volume 26 Klima

Fleming James Rodger, Jankovic Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780226253374, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

"Climate is a rather elusive entity", wrote Helmut Landsberg in 1950 as he sorted out some twenty or so competing definitions. This volume of "Osiris" explores the complexities in understanding what climate means from a historical perspective. The vo...

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America

Of War and Men World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families

LaRossa Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226467436, ISBN: HB: 9780226467429, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
328 pp., 25x15 cm

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. This common but limited stereotype obscures the remarkable diversity of their experiences and those of their children. To uncover the real...

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Music

Opera Fanatic Ethnography of an Obsession

Benzecry Claudio E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226043425, ISBN: HB: 9780226043401, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 3 tables, 17 halftones

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But...

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Literary Criticism

One Kind of Everything Poem and Person in Contemporary America

Chiasson Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226103839, ISBN: HB: 9780226103815, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
208 pp., 21.3x14 cm

"One Kind of Everything" elucidates the uses of autobiography and constructions of personhood in American poetry since World War II, with helpful reference to American literature in general since Emerson. Taking on one of the most crucial issues in A...

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Philosophy

Once Out of Nature Augustine on Time and the Body

Nightingale Andrea

ISBN: HB: 9780226585758, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

"Once Out of Nature" offers an original interpretation of Augustine's theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to analyze Augustine's conception of temporality, eternity, an...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

Grazian David

ISBN: PB: 9780226306728, ISBN: HB: 9780226305677, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
296 pp., 21.3x14.2 cm

David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Entertainment in the city has evolved into...

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