Social and cultural history Books
The University of Chicago Press The Inner Conflict of Tradition Essays in Indian
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£34.20
The University of Chicago Press The Third City
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£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Pattys Got a Gun
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£18.58
The University of Chicago Press Serfdom and Social Control in Russia Petrovskoe a
Book SynopsisThis book includes an excellent analysis of the material and demographic foundations of patriarchal society, which will force historians to reevaluate the profitability of the estate economy and the standard of living among Russian serfs....This is an important book which should be read by anyone interested in peasant studies and servile systems of production.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Routes of Remembrance
Book SynopsisWhy do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? This book tackles this question by analyzing the slave trade's absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian family and community histories, its troubled presentation in the country's classrooms and nationalist narratives, and its elaboration by the transnational tourism industry.Trade Review"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this fascinating book. Indeed, it is rare to find such a sensitive account of how people deal with painful memories of the past and the complex social forces that dictate the shape and form that those memories of the past take." - Jennifer Cole, author of Forget Colonialism?"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Blueprint for Disaster
Book SynopsisTraces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through mayor Richard M Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, the author chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord.Trade Review"Blueprint for Disaster adds a new dimension to the [public housing] debate.... Hunt locates the problems less with a poisonous mixture of political and real estate interests, governmental neglect and racism than the fact that there was no realistic financial plan for public housing and that residents were not engaged in the process." -Chicago Tribune"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Marking Modern Times
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£24.00
The University of Chicago Press War Peace and Prosperity in the Name of God The
Book SynopsisDifferences among religious communities have motivated - and continue to motivate - many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? This book focuses on the big three monotheisms - Judaism, Islam, and Christianity - to consider such questions.Trade Review"Iyigun has written a fascinating and detail-rich book on the links between religion, economic growth, and conflict over a broad swath of history. War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God will appeal to scholars in a number of fields, including history, political economy, and religious studies, as well as being of interest to the broader public intrigued by the historical origins of differences in modern-day development." (Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University)
£45.60
The University of Chicago Press Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol An Anthology of
Book SynopsisWe tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred years, including Clement of Alexandria, Marco Polo, St. Francis Xavier, Voltaire, and Sir William Jones. Featuring writings by soldiers, adventurers, merchants, missionaries, theologians, and colonial officers, this volume contains a wide range of portraits of the Buddha. The descriptions are rarely flattering, as all manner of reports some accurate, some inaccurate, and some garbled came to circulate among European savants and eccentrics, many of whom were famous in their day but are long forgotten in ours. Taken together, these accounts present a fascinating picture, not only of the Buddha as
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Art of Moral Protest Culture Biography
Book SynopsisProtest has become an everyday part of modern societies, an outlet for voicing and discussing basic moral issues. This study integrates diverse examples of protest, from 19th-century boycotts to recent anti-nuclear, animal-rights and environmental movements, showing how social movements operate.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface Pt. 1: Basic Approaches Pt. 2: Biography, Culture, and Willingness Pt. 3: Movement Culture Pt. 4: Protest and the Broader Culture Pt. 5: A Normative View Appendix on Evidence Notes Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Art of Moral Protest Culture Biography and
Book SynopsisProtest has become an everyday part of modern societies, an outlet for voicing and discussing basic moral issues. This study integrates diverse examples of protest, from 19th-century boycotts to recent anti-nuclear, animal-rights and environmental movements, showing how social movements operate.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from
Book SynopsisSince the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. This title explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet.Trade Review"Adrian Johns's learned and witty book Piracy is... a compelling cultural history of the paired ideas of piracy and property from the seventeenth century to the present.... The best history takes readers from a familiar present to a strange past, and delivers them back to a present that can be seen in new ways. Piracy is that sort of history." (Nature) "Piracy shows us how the very notion of intellectual property - and its sharp division into the fields of patent and copyright - was created in response to specific pressures and so could be modified dramatically or even abolished." (Times Higher Education) "Invaluable.... Johns concludes in this challenging, richly detailed, and provocative book, that the choices we make about how to balance property, creativity and privacy will define 'the contours of creative life' for the twenty-first century." (Washington Post) "Johns's research stands as an important reminder that today's intellectual property crises are not unprecedented, and offers a survey of potential approaches to a solution." (Publishers Weekly)"
£33.00
The University of Chicago Press On Economics and Society Selected Essays Phoenix
Book SynopsisThese essays, which make the science of economics intelligible to a general audience, are grouped into six areas: the relevance of economics; the Keynesian revolution; economics and the university; economics and contemporary problems; world inflation, money, trade, growth, and investment; and economics and the environment.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Women the Family and Peasant Revolution in China
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The Invention of Heterosexuality
Book Synopsis"Heterosexuality" is assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm. This work challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. It reveals that as late as 1923, the term "heterosexuality" referred to a "morbid sexual passion".Trade Review"A superb and iconoclastic critique of the history of heterosexuality." - Richard Horton, New York Review of Books "Engaging... important.... Among the best books I have read on sexual identity.... It can change the way you think about sex and gender, about yourself, and about whom you might become." - Louise DeSalvo, Los Angeles Times "Lively and provocative." - Carol Tavris, New York Times Book Review "A valuable primer [that] misses no significant twists in sexual politics." - Gary Indiana, Village Voice Literary Supplement "One of the most important - if not outright subversive - works to emerge from gay and lesbian studies in years." - Mark Thompson, Advocate"
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Women of the Renaissance Women in Culture and
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£31.00
University of Chicago Press The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello
Book SynopsisThe death of Valerio Marcello, in 1490, left his father in a state of despair so profound that it occasioned an outpouring of consoling letters, orations, treatises and poems. Through these sources, King traces the story of a 15th-century family, as well as the cultural trends of the time.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Women Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
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£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The Moment of SelfPortraiture in German
Book SynopsisIn this study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany and examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in 16th-century Germany.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Prologue 1: Prosopopoeia 2: Self and Epoch 3: Organa of History Pt. 1: The Project of Self-Portraiture: Albrecht Durer 4: The Artist as Christ 5: Not Made by Human Hands 6: Figures of Omnivoyance 7: The Divine Hand 8: The Hairy, Bearded Painter 9: Representative Man 10: The Law of Authorship 11: Bas-de-Page Pt. 2: The Mortification of the Image: Hans Baldung Grien 12: Durer Disfigured 13: Death and Experience 14: Death as Hermeneutic 15: The Crisis of Interpretation 16: Homo Interpres in Bivio: Cranach and Luther 17: The Death of the Artist Notes Photographic Credits Index
£49.40
The University of Chicago Press The New Suburban History Historical Studies of
Book SynopsisRejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. This work argues that suburbia must be understood as a central factor in the modern American experience. It includes ten essays that challenge our understanding of suburbia. It reveals the role suburbs have played in the transformation of American liberalism and conservatism.
£28.00
University of Chicago Press Citrus
Book SynopsisTraces the rise and spread of citrus across the globe: from Southeast Asia in 4000 BC through North Africa and the Roman Empire to early modern Spain and Portugal, whose explorers introduced the fruits to the Americas during the 1500s.Trade Review"Laszlo... has approached the lore of citrus fruit with the elan of a master chef (the man is French, after all), mixing history, economics, biology, and chemistry to produce a book that will bring a smile to readers of every taste." - Natural History "Altogether charming, eccentric, erudite, and definitely worth the price." - Times Higher Education Supplement "Stimulating.... Laszlo shows that the citrus fruit 'is a treasure trove of chemicals that are highly useful to humankind' - which also happens to taste wonderful." - Sunday Times (UK) "A short but brilliant account of 6,000 years of citrus fruits that should be devoured with fervor." - Financial Times "Did you know there are a billion citrus trees under cultivation, or that grape-fruit juice may potentiate the effects of Viagra? Citrus mines over two millennia of history to explore the spread of these fruits out of Asia, their commercialization in the United States, and enduring symbolism the world over." - New Scientist"
£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Radios America
Book SynopsisDocuments the impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. Offering insight into radio's use as a persuasive tool, this work explores how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. It also reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Beggar and the Professor A SixteenthCentury
Book SynopsisFrom autobiographical writings, this book reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. It expands the historical contexts of these accounts and, in the process, brings to life the customs, perceptions and character of an age on the threshold of modernity.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Perils of Prosperity 19141932
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£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Fear of Food
Book SynopsisThere may be no greater source of anxiety for Americans today than the question of what to eat and drink. Are eggs the perfect protein, or are they cholesterol bombs? Is red wine good for my heart or bad for my liver? The author reveals the people and interests who have created and exploited these worries.Trade Review"With wit, charm, accessibility, and impeccable scholarship (a powerful and unusual quartet), Harvey Levenstein chronicles the long history of Americans' food fears, tracing their origins, exposing and debunking the self-serving hucksters who promoted them, and, finally, offering his own 'cure': healthy skepticism. It's a riveting record of claims and counter-claims, greed and venality, that will keep you reading and, finally, reassessing your own diet." -Susan R. Friedland, author of Ribs, Caviar, and The Passover Table"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol An Anthology
Book SynopsisWe tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred years, including Clement of Alexandria, Marco Polo, St. Francis Xavier, Voltaire, and Sir William Jones. Featuring writings by soldiers, adventurers, merchants, missionaries, theologians, and colonial officers, this volume contains a wide range of portraits of the Buddha. The descriptions are rarely flattering, as all manner of reports some accurate, some inaccurate, and some garbled came to circulate among European savants and eccentrics, many of whom were famous in their day but are long forgotten in ours. Taken together, these accounts present a fascinating picture, not only of the Buddha as
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Trials of Masculinity Policing Sexual
Book SynopsisIn this history of manhood and masculinity, the author argues that modern formulations of masculinity, despite any sense of naturalness and constancy, are in fact, idealized cultural products of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Modern American Religion
Book SynopsisMartin E. Marty argues here that religion in 20th-century America was essentially shaped by its encounter with modernity. In this first volume, he records and explores the diverse ways in which American religion embraced, rejected or cautiously accepted the modern world.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Modern American Religion Volume 2 The Noise of
Book SynopsisIn this second volume of two tracing the history of 20th-century American religion, Martin E. Marty tells the story of how America has survived religious disturbances and culturally prospered from them.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Turning On the Mind French Philosophers on
Book SynopsisArgues that the history of televising philosophy is crucial to understanding the struggle over French national identity in the postwar period. This work insists that we jettison presumptions about the anti-intellectual nature of the visual field and engages critical questions about the survival of national cultures in a globalizing world.Trade Review"Anyone who wants to understand the unique role that philosophy continues to play in contemporary France can now read Tamara Chaplin's superbly documented study of philosophy on French TV. For American readers, Turning On the Mind raises a host of serious issues for comparison and debate." - Alice Kaplan, author of French Lessons"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Great Expectations Marriage and Divorce in
Book SynopsisDuring the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this dramatic rise, Elaine Tyler May studied over one thousand detailed divorce cases. She found that contrary to common assumptions, divorce was not simply a by-product of women's increasing economic and sexual independence, or a rebellion against marriage. Rather, thwarted hopes for fulfillment in the public sphere drove both men and women to wed at a greater rate and to bring higher expectations to their marriages.
£24.00
University of Chicago Press Screening Out the Past The Birth of Mass Culture
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Women Adrift
Book SynopsisStarting with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Meyerowitz uses turn-of-the-century Chicago as a case study to explore both the image and the reality of single women's experiences as they lived apart from their families. In an era when family all but defined American womanhood, these womenneither victimized nor liberatedcreated new social ties and subcultures to cope with the conditions of urban life. Brilliant. . . . Gracefully written, and mercifully free from the jargon that often plagues social history, this book is a welcome addition to literature in women's, urban, and black history.Ann Schofield, American Historical ReviewMeyerowitz provides a splendid portrait of her subjects. . . . She deserves praise for her demographic spadework, sensitive analysis, and engaging style. This is a valuable and rewarding book.Nancy Woloch, Journal of American History A state-of-the-art product of the new women's history. . . . Meyerowitz's work is an extremely useful contribution, a corrective to over-c
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Departing from Deviance A History of Homosexual
Book SynopsisIn this study Henry L. Minton traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late 19th century to its role in challenging the mental illness model in the 1970s. He describes the accomplishments made by key researchers and mainstream sexologists.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Filled with the Spirit Sexuality Gender and
Book SynopsisIn 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at its core the idea of radical inclusivity: the powerful assertion that everyone, no matter how seemingly flawed or corrupted, has holiness within. Whether you are LGBT, have HIV/AIDS, have been in prison, abuse drugs or alcohol, are homeless, or are otherwise compromised and marginalized, TFAM tells its people, you are one of God's creations. In Filled with the Spirit, Ellen Lewin gives us a deeply empathetic ethnography of the worship and community central to TFAM, telling the story of how the doctrine of radical inclusivity has expanded beyond those it originally sought to serve to encompass people of all races, genders, sexualities, and religious backgrounds. Lewin examines the seemingly paradoxical relationship between TFAM and traditional black churches, focusing on how congregations and individual members reclaim the worship practices of these churches and simultaneously challenge their authority. The book looks closely at how TFAM worship is legitimated and enhanced by its use of gospel music and considers the images of food and African American culture that are central to liturgical imagery, as well as how understandings of personal authenticity tie into the desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Throughout, Lewin takes up what has been mostly missing from our discussions of race, gender, and sexualityclose attention to spirituality and faith.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Schooling Citizens
Book SynopsisWhile white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, the author argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion.Trade Review"I cannot think of any other book that is like Schooling Citizens, which makes an important contribution both to the historiography of African Americans and to the history of education in America. Well written and well argued, this book is an original contribution to scholarship." - Shane White, author of Stories of Freedom in Black New York"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Remembering Emmett Till
Book SynopsisA new look at the murder of Emmett Till and its importance to the history of race and injustice in the American South.Trade Review"With almost surgical precision, Tell unpacks what he presciently calls 'the deep intertwining of race, place, and commemoration' in his brilliant new history of the remembrance of Emmett Till. Excellent histories of this 1955 murder abound, but no one until now has told the multilayered and painfully tangled history of Till's commemoration in the Mississippi Delta. This may be the single greatest 'history of memory' I have ever read."--James Young, author of The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between "Tell, the principal investigator of the Emmett Till Memory Project, takes readers through thickets of politics and commemoration, of fact and fiction, and of local communities trying to leverage civil rights histories to which they may not have strong connections. . . . A book with broad application to the study of the civil rights movement but particularly useful for students and practitioners of local history and civic tourism."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "A 2019 Book of the Year. . . A fine history of racism, poverty and memory in the Mississippi Delta told through the lynching of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago whose murder in 1955--and his mother's determination to display his mutilated features in an open coffin--made him an early martyr of the civil-rights movement."-- "The Economist" "Tell has written the Emmett Till book still begging to be written. The tragedy of this case gave it a place in history books, but its place in American memory was far more complicated. Revisionist history is one thing; rewriting history is another. Tell's argument that race and geography were at the core of that rewriting makes for a compelling and convincing read. As Tell shows, collective forgetting, willfully done, has created a new layer of tragedy to the Emmett Till story."--Devery S. Anderson, author of Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement "Remembering Emmett Till sets the bar for future work on memory, civil rights, and the case that arguably gave the movement its legs. With deft archival work and savvy on-the-ground sleuthing, Tell unearths from the unrelenting Delta landscape many secrets locals have longed to keep buried. Accessible, engaging, and a page-turner from the jump."--Davis W. Houck, coauthor of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press "Remembering Emmett Till is an expertly rendered and original study of an acutely important episode in modern national memory. Tell shows, in evocative detail, how collective patterns and projects of commemoration can be both necessary and confounding, social and topographical, found and invented, tragic and reconstructive. In doing so, Tell blends ideas, places, artifacts, and evidence together in new ways so that readers may revisit, with striking implications, the question of how best to commemorate a historical injustice that will not--and, as Tell suggests, should not--leave us alone."--Bradford Vivian, author of Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Remembering Emmett Till 1 Race, Geography, and the Erasure of Sunflower County 2 Of Race and Rivers: Topography and Memory in Tallahatchie County 3 Emmett Till, Tallahatchie County, and the Birthplace of the Movement 4 Ruins and Restoration in Money 5 Memory and Misery in Glendora Conclusion: Vandalism and Memory at Graball Landing Notes Bibliography Index
£18.05
The University of Chicago Press Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change Peru
Book SynopsisInspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, this text argues that the political and economic activities of Chinese migrants can be best understood by taking into account their links to one another and China through a transnational perspective.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press A Prescription for Murder The Victorian Serial
Book SynopsisBetween 1877 and 1892, Dr Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women, all prostitutes or patients seeking abortions, in England and North America. Using press reports and police dossiers, this work presents an account of the killings, providing an insight into Victorian sexual tensions and fears.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Dramatis Personae Introduction Pt. 1: The Crimes 1: The Time and Place 2: The Murders 3: The Police 4: The Suspect 5: The Trial Pt. 2: The Context 6: Prostitution 7: Abortion 8: Blackmail 9: Doctors 10: Detectives 11: Degenerates 12: Women Conclusion Afterword Notes Select Bibliography Index
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Reproduction by Design
Book SynopsisDrawing on novels, plays, and films of the 1920s and '30s, as well as the work of biologists, psychiatrists, and sexologists, this title brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.Trade Review"I know of no other work on interwar Britain, or even twentieth-century Britain, that brings together modernity, sexuality, technology, and the environment in quite this way. The result is extremely compelling and successful. It is certain to attract a great deal of interest from both scholars and a wider audience." (Stephen Brooke, York University)"
£57.00
The University of Chicago Press After They Closed the Gates Jewish Illegal
Book SynopsisIn 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws were supposed to stem the tide of foreigners considered especially inferior and dangerous. However, immigrants continued to come, sailing into the port of New York with fake passports, or from Cuba to Florida, hidden in the holds of boats loaded with contraband liquor. Jews, one of the main targets of the quota laws, figured prominently in the new international underworld of illegal immigration. However, they ultimately managed to escape permanent association with the identity of the illegal alien in a way that other groups, such as Mexicans, thus far, have not. InAfter They Closed the Gates,Libby Garland tells the untold stories of the Jewish migrants and smugglers involved in that underworld, showing how such stories contributed to growing national anxieties about illegal immigration. Garland also helps us understand how Jews were linked to, and then unlinked from, the specter of illegal immigration. By tracing this complex history, Garland offers compelling insights into the contingent nature of citizenship, belonging, and Americanness.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Street Players
Book SynopsisThe uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives featuring black protagonists in crime stories, conspiracy thrillers, prison novels, and Westerns. From Iceberg Slim's Pimp to Donald Goines's Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books togetherand made them distinct from the majority of American pulpwas an unfailing veneration of black masculinity. Zeroing in on Holloway House, Street Players explores how this world of black pulp fiction was produced, received, and recreated over time and across different communities of readers. Kinohi Nishikawa contends that black pulp fiction was built on white readers' fears of the feminization of societyand the appeal of black masculinity as a way to counter it. In essence, it was the original form of blaxploitation: a strategy of mass
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Evidence of Being
Book SynopsisAn history of the mostly ignored African American gay community in DC in the 1980s and its art and activism.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Impostors Literary Hoaxes and Cultural
Book SynopsisWriting a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the intercultural hoax. In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest Carter's The Education of Little Tree and JT LeRoy's Sarah are two infamous examples. Miller's contribution is to study hoaxes beyond our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as Miller demonstrates, this
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Spent Cartridges of Revolution An Anthropological
Book SynopsisWhat happens to a revolutionary town after the revolution? This anthropological history studies the Namiquipan peasants, who supported Pancho Villa in the revolution of 1910-1920, but who now consider themselves mere spent cartridges of a struggle that benefitted other classes.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Biology Takes Form Animal Morphology and the
Book SynopsisThis study argues that morphology was integral to the life sciences of the 19th century. It traces the development of morphological research in German universities and illuminates significant institutional as well as intellectual changes in 19th-century German biology.
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Yerkes Observatory 18921950
Book SynopsisA centennial study of Yerkes Observatory, built a century ago by the University of Chicago as one of America's first big science centres. This text describes the changing fortunes of the Observatory under its first three directors, and is illustrated with many archival photographs.
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alchemy and Authority makes a significant contribution to the history of early modern science, and also provides some valuable material for the study of early modern state-building and court culture. . . . This extremely readable and enjoyable book has much to offer historians and literary scholars of a variety of backgrounds."--Paul Brand "German History " "Nummedal's Alchemy and Authority should be read not just by historians of science but also by historians interested in court culture. Her work offers a new look at the dynamic relationship between the construction of natural knowledge and political authority that many historians will benefit from reading."--Darin Hayton "Renaissance Quarterly " "This is a terrific study, accessible, based in concrete archival research, and well connected to contemporary discussions. It gives new direction to thinking about the role of alchemy in the social and cultural life of early modern Europe. By diffracting the light usually focused on prominent alchemical figures in the history of science and medicine, Nummedal adds a much needed cultural dimension to the understanding of how alchemical identities were shaped in early modern Europe and to how they in turn influenced the social and intellectual world around them."--Bruce T. Moran "Bulletin of the History of Medicine " "Alchemy and Authority does for the history of alchemy what the literature on quacks has done for the history of medicine: it approaches the blurry boundaries that define an individual's success or downfall in a profession and in society. By asking, reconsidering, and answering the questions posed here, Nummedal speaks to historians of alchemy and science as well as to anyone intrigued by history and the mechanisms of economic systems, power, and authority. . . . . Her style is refreshingly concise and engaging. She is one of only a few academic authors who manage to confine and cionsistently pursue their argument . . . and yet manage to write beautiful, effortless prose."--Anke Timmerman "Chemical Heritage "
£32.48
