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America

Unsettling History Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

Jobs Sebastian, Ludtke Alf

ISBN: PB: 9783593388182, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2010
253 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. With "Unsettling History", a group of historians extend that challenge to two central compon...

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Anthropology

Ultimate Americans Point Hope Alaska: 1826-1909

Lowenstein Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781602230385, ISBN: HB: 9781602230279, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
368 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 30 halftones

The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, "Ultimate Americans" examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Al...

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Contemporary Art

Unpackaging Art of the 1980s

Pearlman Alison

ISBN: HB: 9780226651453, University of Chicago Press, June 2003
239 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 26 colour plates, 11 halftones

American art of the 1980s is as misunderstood as it is notorious. Critics of the time feared that market hype and self-promotion threatened the integrity of art. They lashed out at contemporary art, questioning the validity of particular media and me...

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