Social and cultural history Books
Oxford University Press The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 1
Book SynopsisWestminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000 acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its revenues at the Dissolution exceeded 2,800 p.a. These assets supported a complement of 50 to 60 monks in the fourteenth century. This volume publishes 75 documents providing overviews (''states'') of the Westminster estate and its revenues, as administered by the abbot and convent separately between c.1300 and 1422. The states provided crucial information at a period of great social and economic change either side of the Black Death, assisting in decisions about farming estates directly or leasing them - and to historians today they provide rich evidence of the agricultural economy of medieval England, the systems of provisioning monasteries, and the men who shaped them. The states are of two types. The first gives estimates of corn, stock and cash on the manors, made partway through the financialTrade Review"Even to skim through these two volumes is enough to give a sense of the richness and importance of the 'states' as mentioned on the first page ... those with an interest in the economic and social history of Westminster Abbey, or of late medieval Europe more generally, will find much here to sink their teeth into. * Richard Allen, Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies *
£71.25
Oxford University Press Time on a Human Scale
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£76.00
Oxford University Press Complete Gentlemen Educational Travel and Family
Book SynopsisThis is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Based on deep archival research, it explores the meanings of continental travel for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity and Englishness.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Before Travel 2: Finances, Social Standing and the 'Grand Tour' 3: Learning Abroad 4: Networking Abroad 5: Returns from Travel Conclusion Bibliography Index
£71.25
The University of Chicago Press Disturbing Practices
Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of women's work experiences, friendships, and communities during World War I, this title draws on a substantial body of new archival material to expose the roadblocks still present in current practices and imagine new alternatives. It clarifies the ethical value and political purpose of identity history.Trade Review"Disturbing Practices stands comparison to the very best work in sexuality studies. Empirically rich and rigorous, it represents a challenging and groundbreaking intervention in the field." (Matt Houlbrook, author of Queer London)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Alien Neighbors Foreign Friends Asian Americans
Book SynopsisBetween the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. The author examines this transformation through the lens of California's urban housing markets.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Aguecheeks Beef Belchs Hiccup and Other
Book SynopsisSuitable for those interested in early modern literature or the history of food, this title tells the story of how early modern Europeans put food into words and words into food, and created an experience all their own. It features illustrations and a handful of recipes.Trade Review"Robert Appelbaum explores, chapter by chapter, the different ways in which early modern authors write about food....[He] persuades us to ask searching questions about brief culinary asides in 16th-century literature and to recognise the false clues by which some commentators have been misled....Readers learn almost as much about early modern food as about the literature that digests it." (Times Higher Education Supplement)"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Sex Trafficking Scandal and the Transformation of
Book SynopsisOffers a way to understand sensationalism in newspapers and reform movements. This title explains how the social and political realities of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century society changed, slowly marginalizing this kind of journalism in favor of a ethical style that demonstrated the significance of race, and gender, to its readers.Trade Review"This is a beautifully written, skillfully narrated take on the transformations that took place in American journalism during the Progressive Era. Highly creative and meticulously researched, there's no book quite like it." (Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Sex Trafficking Scandal and the Transformation of
Book SynopsisBy the middle of the nineteenth century, the public had had enough of sex and death. This title offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements.Trade Review"This is a beautifully written, skillfully narrated take on the transformations that took place in American journalism during the Progressive Era. Highly creative and meticulously researched, there's no book quite like it." (Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College)"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press City Water City Life
Book SynopsisA city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. This book explores this infrastructure of ideas through an examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and 1860s.Trade Review"City Water, City Life is a gem of a book, a tightly focused meditation on the antebellum city's 'infrastructure of ideas.' By masterfully compressing myriad period sources, Carl Smith makes major contributions to our understanding of American society and culture." (Harold Platt, Loyola University Chicago)"
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press A Genealogy of Manners Transformations of Social
Book SynopsisArditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the ideas of Elias, Foucault and Bourdieu, as well as through analysing courtesy manuals and etiquette books of the times, he examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over the centuries.
£30.00
University of Chicago Press The Mountain
Book SynopsisWhat is a mountain? Seems like a simple question, right? But if we take the question seriously, the answers turn out to be complicated, wide ranging, and fascinating. In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature, but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in political climates and cultural attitudes. To truly understand mountains, they argue, we must view them not only as material realities but as social constructs, ones that can mean radically different things to different people in different settings. From the Enlightenment to the very present days, and thanks to a huge variety of case studies picked up in all the continents, the authors show us how our ideas of and about mountains have changed with the times and how a huge range of policies, from border delineation to forestry as well as nature protection and social policies, ha
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press Manliness Civilization A Cultural History of
Book SynopsisGail Bederman investigates the connection between powerful manhood and racial dominance as it was debated, promoted and resisted during the decades around the turn of this century.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Remaking Manhood through Race and "Civilization" Ch. 2: "The White Man's Civilization on Trial": Ida B. Wells, Representations of Lynching, and Northern Middle-Class Manhood Ch. 3: "Teaching Our Sons to Do What We Have Been Teaching the Savages to Avoid": G. Stanley Hall, Racial Recapitulation, and the Neurasthenic Paradox Ch. 4: "Not to Sex - But to Race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Civilized Anglo-Saxon Womanhood, and the Return of the Primitive Rapist Ch. 5: Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation, and "Civilization" Conclusion: Tarzan and After Notes Bibliography Index
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Meet Joe Copper Masculinity and Race on Montanas
Book SynopsisDescribes the formation of a masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived - on the job, and through union politics. This title provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era.Trade Review"Matthew L. Basso's evidence and interpretations regarding the significance of masculinity to the values, actions, and concerns of working-class civilian men in Montana's copper industry substantially revise our understandings of the middle decades of the twentieth century." (Karen Anderson, author of Wartime Women)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Fear of Food
Book SynopsisAre eggs the perfect protein, or are they cholesterol bombs? Is red wine good for my heart or bad for my liver? In this title, the author reveals the people and interests who have created and exploited these worries, causing an extraordinary number of Americans to allow fear to trump pleasure in dictating their food choices.Trade Review"When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters: those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not. In Fear of Food, Harvey Levenstein focuses on the latter group, taking readers through a succession of American fads and panics, from an epidemic of 'germophobia' at the start of the twentieth century to fat phobia at its end. He exposes the instigators of these panics: not only the hucksters and opportunists but also the scientists and health experts." (Times Literary Supplement)"
£17.66
The University of Chicago Press Black New Orleans 18601880
Book SynopsisReissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city's black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame's groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame's history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the late nineteenth century. Blending historical and sociological perspectives, and drawing with skill and imagination upon a variety of sources, [Blassingame] offers fresh insights into an oft-studied period of Southern history. . . . In both time and place the author has chosen an extraordinarily revealing vantage point from which to view his subject.Neil R. McMillen, American Historical Review
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
Book SynopsisThe search for a patient zero popularly understood to be the first infected case in an epidemic has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly come to exert such a strong grip on the scientific, media, and popular consciousness? In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay interprets a wealth of archival sources and interviews to demonstrate how this seemingly new concept drew upon centuries-old ideas and fears about contagion and social disorder. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how investigators from the US
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna
Book SynopsisThis text, winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize, examines the social and political atmosphere of late imperial Vienna. It traces the demise of Vienna's liberal culture and the growth of a new radicalism during the latter half of the 19th century.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Map of Vienna 1: Austrian Liberals and Liberal Politics, 1848-79: Burger Privilege and the Fragmentation of Bourgeois Politics 2: The Viennese Artisans and the Origins of Political Antisemitism, 1880-90 40 3: Catholic Politics in Vienna: The Radical Clergy and the Restoration of Mittelstand Society 4: Karl Lueger and the Radicalization of Viennese Democracy, 1875-90 5: The Transformation of Viennese Politics: Metropolitan Vienna, White Collar Radicalism, and the Elections of 1891 6: The Collapse of the Liberals and the Antisemitic Conquest of Vienna, 1893-97 Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The Chicago School of Sociology
Book SynopsisFrom 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of twentieth-century American sociology and related fields as well. Martin Bulmer's history of the Chicago school of sociology describes the university's role in creating research-based and publication-oriented graduate schools of social science. This is an important piece of work on the history of sociology, but it is more than merely historical: Martin Bulmer's undertaking is also to explain why historical events occurred as they did, using potentially general theoretical ideas. He has studied what he sees as the period, from 1915 to 1935, when the 'Chicago School' most flourished, and defines the nature of its achievements and what made them possible . . . It is likely to become the indispensible historical source for its topic.Jennifer Platt, Sociology
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Meanings for Manhood
Book SynopsisThe stereotype of the Victorian man as a sexually repressed patriarch belies the wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of manhood during the mid to late nineteenth century. A complex pattern of alternative and even competing behaviors and attitudes emerges in this collection of essays that points toward a gendered history of men.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Schooling Citizens
Book SynopsisAs common schooling emerged in the 1830s, providing white children of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined citizenship as synonymous with whiteness. This title shows why opposition erupted where it did across the United States in antebellum America.Trade Review"Hilary J. Moss offers an important corrective to the literature of the common schools by identifying race as a factor in their development.... With her detailed case examinations, Moss brings into focus the localized debates that contributed to the patchwork nature of American educational policy and provides awareness of both white and black activism surrounding integration that preceded Brown v. Board of Education by more than a century." (Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth) "Schooling Citizens is a worthy contribution to the study of African-American struggles for access to education and schooling in the pre-Civil War era.... Hilary J. Moss asks us to ponder why Americans, both white and black, often believed in the democratic promise of schooling even though fair treatment and equal opportunity were so rarely realized." (Journal of Interdisciplinary History)"
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Book Was There Reading in Electronic Times
Book SynopsisMuch ink has been spilled lamenting or championing the decline of printed books. The author shows that the rich history of reading itself offers unexpected clues to what lies in store for books. From medieval manuscript books to today's interactive urban fictions, he explores the manifold ways that physical media have shaped how we read.Trade Review"Compelling.... Andrew Piper shows the apparent internet revolution as being a continuum of book culture." (Financial Times) "This series of enlightening meditations on the experience and history of reading reveals what we are poised to gain and to lose with the advent of e-readers and related digital media.... Andrew Piper does a fine job of uncovering the metaphors on which the rationality and logic of reading rest.... A fascinating glance at the page as it was, as it is, and as it might yet be." (Publishers Weekly)"
£17.66
The University of Chicago Press Making Physics
Book SynopsisThis text tells the stories of Brookhaven National Laboratory's scientists and their research, which has included detailed descriptions of the structure of the nucleus, early attempts at radiotherapy for inoperable tumours, and studies of strange particles.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Freedoms Ballot
Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city's first black alderman, Oscar DePriest. This book tells the history of three generations of African American activists - the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs - who transformed twentieth-century urban politics.Trade Review"In this fascinating and original study, Garb traces the rise of black politics in Chicago from its mid-nineteenth-century origins to the early twentieth century. The book is a signal contribution to our understanding of the long civil rights movement on northern soil." (Eric Foner, Columbia University)"
£44.65
The University of Chicago Press Obsession
Book SynopsisWe live in an age of obsession. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, this work traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem.Trade Review"This is an engaging book which I read with considerable - dare I say, obsessive? - enjoyment.... The book is laced with rich examples exemplifying obsessional people and their work." - Christine Purdon, Times Higher Education "Intellectually bold and constantly insightful.... Manages to link Moby-Dick and the TV show Monk." - Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune "Those with a keen interest in (or perhaps an obsession with) obsession and its place in human culture will enjoy Davis's book." - Melinda Wenner, Scientific American Mind "If you should pick up the book expecting an obsessively thorough discourse, you won't be disappointed. But Davis is a fine writer, and he grabs the reader at the outset by confessing his own childhood rituals." - Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader "Beautifully written and impeccably - perhaps obsessively - researched: important reading for anyone interested in inescapable fascinations." - Kirkus Reviews "A witty and interesting historical tour of a fascinating subject." - Ian Brooks, Nature"
£38.95
The University of Chicago Press Obsession
Book SynopsisWe live in an age of obsession. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, this work traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem.Trade Review"This is an engaging book which I read with considerable - dare I say, obsessive? - enjoyment.... The book is laced with rich examples exemplifying obsessional people and their work." - Christine Purdon, Times Higher Education "Intellectually bold and constantly insightful.... Manages to link Moby-Dick and the TV show Monk." - Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune "Those with a keen interest in (or perhaps an obsession with) obsession and its place in human culture will enjoy Davis's book." - Melinda Wenner, Scientific American Mind "If you should pick up the book expecting an obsessively thorough discourse, you won't be disappointed. But Davis is a fine writer, and he grabs the reader at the outset by confessing his own childhood rituals." - Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader "Beautifully written and impeccably - perhaps obsessively - researched: important reading for anyone interested in inescapable fascinations." - Kirkus Reviews "A witty and interesting historical tour of a fascinating subject." - Ian Brooks, Nature"
£19.50
The University of Chicago Press Smart Casual
Book SynopsisTakes you inside the kitchens and dining rooms of restaurants from David Chang's Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York to the seasonal, French-inspired cuisine of Alice Waters and Thomas Keller in California to the deconstructed comfort food of Homaro Cantu's Moto in Chicago, to explore the different forms and flavors this casualization is taking.
£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Human Capital in History The American Record
Book SynopsisBuilding on Claudia Goldin's landmark research on the labor history of the United States, this book features contributors who consider the roles of education and technology in contributing to American economic growth and well-being, the experience of women in the workforce, and how trends in marriage and family affected broader economic outcomes.
£90.25
The University of Chicago Press Indians of North America
Book SynopsisThe art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. Indians of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their historiesa variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe. For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organization, incorporating many new discoveries and interpretations in archeology and related fields. He also revised several of the maps and added more than 100 bibliographical items. Since the publication of the first edition, there has been an increased interest in the activities of Indians in the twentieth century; accordingly, the author placed much more emphasis on this period.
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Improper Advances
Book SynopsisThere are many political, psychological, and sociological answers to why men rape women, but few historical ones. This book explores the history of sexual violence in rural and Northern Ontario. The book expands the terms of debates about sexuality and sexual violence.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Historical Renaissance New Essays on Tudor
Book SynopsisThe Historical Renaissance both exemplifies and examines the most influential current in contemporary studies of the English Renaissance: the effort to analyze the interplay between literature, history, and politics. The broad and varied manifestations of that effort are reflected in the scope of this collection. Rather than merely providing a sampler of any single critical movement, The Historical Renaissance represents the range of ways scholars and critics are fusing what many would once have distinguished as literary and historical concernsThe volume includes studies of mid-Tudor culture as well as of Elizabethan and Stuart periods. The scope of the collection is also manifest in its list of contributors. They include historians and literary critics, and their work spans he spectrum from more traditional methods to those characteristic of what has been termed New Historicism.One aim of the book is to investigate the apparent division between these older and more current approaches.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Loving Literature
Book SynopsisServes as a riposte to those who use the phrase the love of literature as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy.Trade Review"A major work by a major scholar. This is truly an eagerly awaited book. Needless to say, Lynch writes not as some kind of skeptical outsider, but as a 'lover of literature' who seeks to understand why we professionally take all this so personally. The book will be much read and talked about across all fields of literary scholarship and beyond: a book about the love of literature is sure to attract the attention of a broad band of literature lovers both inside and outside the academy." (Adela Pinch, University of Michigan)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Brown in the Windy City
Book SynopsisExamines the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. The author reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in Chicago.Trade Review"With astute attention to the parallel trajectories and overlapping nature of Mexican Americans' and Puerto Ricans' histories, Fernandez paints a rich portrait of neighborhood life, moving beyond broad strokes and the white-black racial binary. Told with detail, substance, and nuance, Brown in the Windy City is an important story that is likely to become a foundational book." (Carmen Teresa Whalen, author of From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies)"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Religion Empire and Torture
Book SynopsisIdentifying the three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission, the author shows how these religious ideas shaped Achaemenian practice and brought the Persians unprecedented wealth, power, and territory, and more.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man An
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Colored Property State Policy and White Racial
Book SynopsisShows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential neighborhoods after World War II - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship.Trade Review"A creative, vital entry point to explore the tangle of federal mortgage financing, housing reform, and deep-seated racism.... This well-written, much-needed study brings together the realms of urban history, race relations, and economic opportunity." - Choice "Freund's book unravels the ties that bound (and bind) race and property, and, in the process, shows how that linkage altered white racial ideals and politics in postwar America." - Andrew Wiese, "Journal of American History."
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press A Day in a Medieval City
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£25.99
The University of Chicago Press The Sensory Order An Inquiry into the Foundations
Book SynopsisThe housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. This title tells a history of our national obsession with real estate. It reveals that the aspiration for single-family home ownership was forged in impoverished immigrant neighborhoods in industrializing cities.Trade Review"Garb has produced an impressive and timely work of scholarship.... Few studies provide comparably insightful analyses of both housing and home ownership and the role those two phenomena have played in the cultural construction of the 'American dream.'" (Business History Review)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Kindred Nature
Book SynopsisHighlighting the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and writing of nature, this text recovers their works from the misrepresentation they often faced at the time of their composition.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe German Democratic Republic has become the subject of novels, memoirs and films, and also the backdrop for general debates over the power of intellectuals in contemporary media and society. This collection considers the demise of the GDR and its impact on the place of intellectuals.
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press Perfect Cities Chicagos Utopias of 1893
Book SynopsisIn this elegant and sensitive look at the milieu of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, James Gilbert examines the three utopias that were designed to bring order to the chaos of urban life: The World's Fair itself, George Pullman's community for his workers, and Dwight Moody's evangelical crusade. Gilbert draws upon a rich selection of fiction, collective biography, architecture, photographs, and souvenir books to show how these experiments each acted as a middle-class prescription for coming to terms with the new cultural diversity and competition resulting from the disruptive forces of technological change, commercial enterprise, and pluralism. Mr. Gilbert's splendid book opens the door on a conflicted past, and provides an indispensable perspective on the troubled and troubling struggle we face today between old and new, unity and diversity.Alan Trachtenberg, New York TimesPerfect Cities is a remarkable account of a struggle for cultural definition. Chronicling the byplay b
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Fatal Embrace Jews the State Paper Jews and
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press A Place for Us
Book SynopsisFrom its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone an updating of Shakespeare located in a vividly realized, rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes's A Place for Us. A lifelong fan of the show, Foulkes became interested in its history when she made an unexpected discovery: parts of the iconic film version were shot on the demolition site of what would ultimately be part of the Lincoln Center redevelopment a crowning jewel of postwar urban renewal. Foulkes interweaves the story of the creation of the musical and film with the remaking of the Upper West Side and the larger tale of New York's postwar aspirations. Making unprecedented use of Jerome Robbins's revelatory papers, she shows the crucial role played by the political commitments of Robbins and his fellow gay, Jewish collaborators, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents: their determination to evoke life in New York as it was actually lived helped give West Side Story its unshakable sense of place even as it put forward a vision of a new, vigorous, determinedly multicultural American city. Beautifully written and full of surprises for even the most dedicated West Side Story fan, A Place for Us is a powerful new exploration of an American classic.
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Insurgent Identities Class Community and Protest
Book SynopsisThis work examines the the social upheavals of the Paris Commune of 1871 and the 1848 Revolution. It argues that whereas the insurgents of 1848 fought and died in defence of their status as workers, those of 1871 did so as members of a besieged urban community.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Beyond Carnival
Book SynopsisThis cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil shatters the exotic myths and replaces them with a complex picture of the social obstacles that confront Brazilian homosexuals. The study focuses on male homosexual subcultures in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The Artist in American Society The Formative
Book SynopsisWhat was the place of the artist in a new society? How would he thrive where monarchy, aristocracy, and an established churchthose traditional patrons of painting, sculpture, and architecturewere repudiated so vigorously? Neil Harris examines the relationships between American cultural values and American society during the formative years of American art and explores how conceptions of the artist's social role changed during those years.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Capitalism and the Historians
Book SynopsisThe authors offer documentary evidence to support their conclusion that under capitalism the workers, despite long hours and other hardships of factory life, were better off financially, had more opportunities, and led a better life than had been the case before the Industrial Revolution.
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The University of Chicago Press Slumming
Book SynopsisFrom its appearance as a 'fashionable dissipation' centered on the immigrant and working-class districts of 1880s New York through its spread to Chicago and into the 1930s nightspots frequented by lesbians and gay men, this book charts the development of slumming.Trade Review"Exhaustively researched and beautifully written.... Vivid and astonishingly detailed." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York "This is a beautiful book that will be a milestone in our understandings of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metropolitan American modernity." - American Historical Review "An enthralling history.... Assiduously parsed, perhaps to mitigate the inherent titillation of the material." - New Yorker"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Urban Appetites
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£20.00
