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The University of Chicago Press The Liberalism of Care Community Philosophy and
Book SynopsisAttention to care in modern society has fallen out of view as an ethos of personal responsibility, free markets, and individualism has taken hold. The Liberalism of Care argues that contemporary liberalism is suffering from a crisis of care, manifest in a decaying sense of collective political responsibility for citizens' well-being and for the most vulnerable members of our communities. Political scientist Shawn C. Fraistat argues that we have lost the political language of care, which, prior the nineteenth century, was commonly used to express these dimensions of political life. To recover that language, Fraistat turns to three prominent philosophersPlato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and William Godwinwho illuminate the varied ways caring language and caring values have structured core debates in the history of Western political thought about the proper role of government, as well as the rights and responsibilities of citizens. The Liberalism of Care presents a distinctive vision for oTrade Review"The Liberalism of Care richly re-envisions both the politics of care and the nature of contemporary liberalism through an original and highly illuminating analysis of care in some key contributors to the history of political thought in the West. Fraistat’s searching studies of Plato, Rousseau, and Godwin explore with great nuance and insight the relationship between care and authority, domination, civic engagement, self-development, and solidarity, among other things. Yet even as it shifts how we understand the history of political thought, the book offers a valuable resource for liberal democracies navigating current challenges of authoritarianism, populism, deep dividedness, entrenched injustice, and rising inequality. The Liberalism of Care is an important contribution to political theory and to public life." -- Sharon R. Krause, Brown University"Fraistat’s The Liberalism of Care is an insightful exploration of the deep currents of care that have long existed in Western political thought but have often been overlooked or misunderstood. Through close readings of Plato, Rousseau, and Godwin, Fraistat draws out constructive insights about the importance of care to political life as well as the dangers of illiberal care. The Liberalism of Care is an important book that offers profound lessons about the importance of care to liberalism and the importance of liberal values to good care." -- Daniel Engster, The University of HoustonTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Plato on Caring for the Self and Caring for Others Chapter 2. Plato and the Politics of Authority as Care Chapter 3. Rousseau on Care, Education, and Domination Chapter 4. Rousseau, Authority, and the Caring Republic Chapter 5. Godwin on Care, Impartiality, and Independence Chapter 6. Godwin and Anarchy as Care Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Faithful Renderings
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The University of Chicago Press Infectious Disease
Book SynopsisIncludes thirty articles on communicable illness published in the pages of "Scientific American" magazine since 1993. This book includes sections devoted to viral infections, infectious disease, the immune system, and global management and treatment issues.
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The University of Chicago Press Evolution
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The University of Chicago Press The Sexual Politics of JeanJacques Rousseau
Book SynopsisJoel Schwartz presents the first systematic treatment of Rousseau's understanding of the political importance of women, sexuality, and the family. Using both Rousseau's lesser-known literary works and such major writings as Emile, Julie, and The Second Discourse, he offers an original and provocative presentation of Rousseau's argument. To read Rousseau, Schwartz believes, is to enter into a profound discourse about the meaning of sexual equality and the opportunities, pitfalls, costs, and benefits that sexual relationships bestow and impose on us all. His own thoughtful reading of Rousseau opens up fresh perspectives on political philosophy and the history of sexual, masculine, and feminine psychology.
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The University of Chicago Press Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory
Book SynopsisFrom his memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume Abraham Lincoln was a national hero rather than a controversial president. Drawing on an array of material, this is a study of the role Lincoln's reputation and memory has played in American life.
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The University of Chicago Press Parit233 Sexual Equality and the Crisis of
Book SynopsisFrance is in the throes of a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In this book, the author shows how the requirement for abstraction has led to the exclusion of women from French politics.
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The University of Chicago Press Courtly Love the Love of Courtliness and the
Book SynopsisOne of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe's courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has been ignored by historians of sexuality. This work aims to correct this oversight with an analysis of key courtly texts of the medieval German literary tradition.Trade Review"This is the most important study of courtly love to appear in the last twenty years. Drawing on the rich medieval German literary tradition, this book argues that what moderns think of as sex is, in fact, a historical construct. Showing in detail how the great medieval German texts understood the category of sex, James Schultz adds a considerable chapter to the history of sex, the history of gender, and medieval studies." - Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University"
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The University of Chicago Press Investment in Womens Human Capital
Book SynopsisThis text explores the nature of human capital distributions to women and their effect on outcomes within the family. Sections cover: the experiences of high-income countries; health; education; household structure and labour markets; and measurement issues in low-income countries.
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The University of Chicago Press The Geographical Imagination in America 18801950
Book SynopsisSusan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes towards world geography from the end of 19th century exploration to the dawn of the Cold War. The work discusses the study of geography and its place in culture and politicsTrade Review"Schulten steps up to the challenge of producing a full-length work about the political economy of mapmaking.... An ambitious history of the rise of popular cartography in the United States." - Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker "A well-documented account of how politics, history and culture influenced the study and presentation of geography.... Theory is wisely balanced by a hodgepodge of odd and interesting facts about maps, politics and American cultural trends." - Publishers Weekly "An important new work.... Schulten's original synthesis ranges widely and insightfully from the effects of war on map design to map projection as a reflection of how Americans saw themselves as an emergent world power." - Mark Monmonier, author of How to Lie with Maps and Air Apparent
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The University of Chicago Press Everyone Loves Live Music A Theory of
Book SynopsisFor decades, millions of music fans have gathered every summer in parks and fields to hear their favorite bands at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Coachella, and Glastonbury. How did these and countless other festivals across the globe evolve into glamorous pop culture events, and how are they changing our relationship to music, leisure, and public culture? In Everyone Loves Live Music, Fabian Holt looks beyond the marketing hype to show how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades, as sites that were once meaningful sources of community and culture are increasingly subsumed by corporate giants. Examining a diverse range of cases across Europe and the United States, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a pioneering theory of performance institutions. He explores the fascinating history of the club and the festival in San Francisco and New York, as well as a number of European cities. This book also explores the sTrade Review”Many of us do indeed love music venues and summer music festivals, and in this book Holt does a terrific job of showing how even such beloved institutions are tied up with excessive commercialisation, dubious policy developments and property speculation. That shouldn’t stop people from enjoyment, but it might help us understand our pleasures better by forestalling naïve assumptions that contemporary musical experience is innocently separate from the nastier elements of our capitalist societies.” -- David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds, author of Why Music Matters“This book is a highly original and quite brilliant approach to the study of musical performance institutions. I know of no other book that has such a broad perspective. Unique in its approach, ground-breaking in its objectives, Everyone Loves Live Music presents some fascinating information about both rock clubs and large rock festivals that make it a milestone and a point of reference for future studies.” -- Anthony Seeger, University of California at Los Angeles“After half a century of writing about recorded popular music, an exhaustive analysis of the phenomenon of live music is finally available, thanks to this book by Fabian Holt! Everyone Loves Live Music provides original and relevant keys to understanding the extraordinary development of festivals, concerts, and live shows.” -- Gérôme Guibert, Sorbonne Nouvelle University"Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism." * The New Books Network *"Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions presents an important contribution to the study of contemporary clubs and festivals, by way of critical and informative historical, political economy, and media analysis." * Urban People *"Since the beginning of the 2000s and the record industry crisis, live music has triggered attention from various sectors (economic, technological, political, and intellectual), causing a severe inflation of discourses and narratives about its authenticity and new economy. Fabian Holt has been involved in this dynamic through several decisive academic contributions and professional activities related to festivals. In this book, he looks back at these numerous narratives, not without a (self-)critical eye. This is the first and greatest merit of the book, as it not only offers an overview of the many discourses on live music, but also questions the meaning of this renewed interest. The second great merit is that it proposes a real theorization of live music, and questions its nature in depth when many works are content with an industrial, depoliticized, superficial conception. . . . Holt’s work thus constitutes a great opportunity to reconsider our views on music as a public value." * Popular Music *"While it is true that many scholars have previously identified the economic forces that operate behind the live music industries, Holt takes a broader perspective that allows him to describe a Global North phenomenon in which corporate power and anglophone pop music culture dominate the market... It is still difficult to determine what live music studies will look like in the future or what the main outcomes of this interdisciplinary field have been... In any case, Fabian Holt has made a very important contribution to its refinement." * Ethnomusicology Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The Social Study of Musical Performance Institutions Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Musical Performance CultureClubs in Everyday Urban Life Chapter 3. The Social Study of Music in Cities Chapter 4. The Commercial Institutionalization of the Rock Club in New York Chapter 5. How Did the Rock Club Evolve in Europe?Music Festivals in the Summer Season Chapter 6. A Worldview History of Music Festivals Chapter 7. The Evolution of Anglophone Global Culture Chapter 8. Three Industry Evolutions That Changed Festival Culture Chapter 9. Festival Video and Social Media Chapter 10. Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Theory of Ecology
Book SynopsisIntends to advance a comprehensive articulation of ecological theories, covering a wide range of topics, from ecological niche theory to population dynamic theory to island biogeography theory. This book demonstrates how theory in ecology accounts for observations about the natural world and how models provide predictive understandings.Trade Review"The Theory of Ecology provides a simple framework for interpreting the multifaceted role of theory in the field of ecology. This approach is unique, extremely brave, and contentious at times, but definitely intriguing." (Kevin McCann, University of Guelph)"
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The University of Chicago Press Political Ethnography
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that ethnography is uniquely suited for illuminating the study of politics. This book addresses the central ontological and epistemological issues raised by ethnographic work. It also grapples with the reality that all research is conducted from a first-person perspective.
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The University of Chicago Press Not Under My Roof Parents Teens and the Culture
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with parents and teens, this title offers an intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in the United States and the Netherlands negotiate love, lust, and growing up. It provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships.Trade Review"With grace and style, Amy Schalet presents a forceful and convincing argument about the divergent cultural approaches to sexuality, socialization of adolescents, and conceptions of citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands, probing deep-seated value differences that play out in the management of sex. Nuanced, well documented, and remarkably persuasive, Not Under My Roof is an exemplary study." (Frank Furstenberg, University of Pennsylvania)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Crafting of the 10000 Things
Book SynopsisThe last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in knowledge and technology. This title sheds light on the development of scientific thinking in China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and effects on Chinese history.
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The University of Chicago Press Fear of Diversity
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging book locates the origin of political science in the everyday world of ancient Greek life, thought, and culture. Arlene Saxonhouse contends that the Greeks, confronted by the puzzling diversity of the physical world, sought a force that would unify, constrain, and explain it. This drive toward unity did more than value the mind over the senses: it led the Greeks to play down the very real complexitiesparticularly regarding women, the family, and sexualityin both their political and personal lives. Saxonhouse opens up fresh understandings of such issues as the Greeks' fear of the feminine and their attempts to ignore the demands that gender, reproduction, and the family inevitably make on the individual.
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The University of Chicago Press Smoldering City Chicagoans and the Great Fire
Book SynopsisDrawing on memoirs, private correspondences and other sources, this book examines the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Despite rapid recovery and redevelopment, the author describes the social/political conflict and division that followed the fire.
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The University of Chicago Press Segregation by Experience Agency Racism and
Book SynopsisIn early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign. This title demonstrates the ways in which democratic societies have continued many of the rituals and practices associated with kingship in displaced, distorted, and, usually, unrecognizable forms.Trade Review"Eric Santner's The Royal Remains stands out, not only as the most important book on political philosophy of the last decade, but as a classic at the level of Walter Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence' or Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies. It prolongs their analyses into today's world of micro-politics, raising the key question of what happens to the king's other sublime body in a democratic society where the people-collectively-are the new sovereign. My reaction to reading this book is of wonder and awe; it is as if a new Benjamin (with the added features of Freud and Lacan) is walking among us." -Slavoj Zizek"
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The University of Chicago Press The Kamikaze Biker Paradoy Anomy in Affluent
Book SynopsisIn this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experimental and deviant life-styles among youth. Kamikaze Biker offers an intriguing look at a form of delinquency in a country traditionally thought to be devoid of social problems. Ikuya Sato's Kamikaze Biker is an exceptionally fine ethnographic analysis of a recurrent form of Japanese collective youth deviance...Sato has contributed a work of value to a wide range of scholarly audiences.--Jack Katz, Contemporary Sociology A must for anyone interested in Japan, juvenile delinquency and/or youth behavior in general, or the impact of affluence on society.--Choice The volume provides a sophisticated ...discussion of changes happening in Japanese society in the early 1980s. As such, it serves as a window on the 1990s and beyond.--Ross Mouer, Asian Studies Review Kamikaze Biker is a superlative study, one that might help liberate American social science from the simplistic notion that behavior not directly contributing to economic productivity should be summarily dismissed as 'dangerous' and 'deviant.' --Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The University of Chicago Press Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump
Book SynopsisAmerican foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times of war and peace. Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of competing grand strategies that accounts for objectives and means of security policy. Miller puts forward a model that is widely applicable, based on empirical evidence from post-WWII to today, and shows that external factors--rather than internal concerns--are the most determinative.Trade Review“Miller and Rubinovitz take US grand strategy seriously and offer in this landmark study an original, provocative, and engaging explanation for how and why it has evolved over the last seventy-five years.” -- Peter Feaver, Duke University“No scholar is more adept than Miller at combining domestic and systemic factors to explain the workings of the international system. His formidable skills are on full display in his new book, where he tells a fascinating story about the evolution of American grand strategy.” -- John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago“This book provides a powerful explanation for the significant, consequential, and often puzzling changes in American foreign policy since World War II. International relations theorists, historians, and policy analysts will all want to engage Miller and Rubinovitz’s provocative argument, which combines innovative theorizing and detailed historical analysis.” -- Jack S. Levy, Rutgers University“Integrating broad strands of international relations theory and tackling the gigantic literature on American foreign policy writ large, Miller and Rubinovitz propose and evaluate a sweeping and ambitious explanation of shifts in US grand strategy since WWII. Empirically rich and theoretically savvy, this is a signal contribution to scholarship on topics of enormous real-world importance.” -- William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College“This bold and provocative account of US foreign policy marries conceptual innovation to a parsimonious realist theoretical framework to empirics of impressive sweep. Even skeptics will have to concede that Miller’s rigorous focus on the distribution of international power and on the level of international threat generates powerful insights into the changing emphases of US foreign policy over the decades. A welcome, major addition to the burgeoning literature on grand strategy.” -- Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota“With a carefully wrought synthetic theory and a sweeping historical narrative, Miller and Rubinovitz advance a new explanation for great-power grand strategies. They argue that whether the US follows a realist or liberal foreign policy, and whether it does so in offensive or defensive fashion, it is responding to changes in the international balance of power and level of threat. It’s a realist answer, one that many leading realists have long resisted.” -- John Owen, University of Virginia“Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump asks one of the most consequential questions of our day: what leads great powers to shift their strategy? The authors answer it by laying out a novel theory and applying it to the US since WWII. The result is an important book that ought to be read by all those interested in the US role in the world.” -- Nuno P. Monteiro, Yale University"Combining innovative theoretical insights with careful historical research, Miller and Rubinovitz’s new book makes an important contribution to our understanding of American strategy since World War II.” -- Thomas Christensen, Columbia University"Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump is an interesting and innovative book that accounts for variations and shifts in American grand strategy... Anyone interested in academic, theory-driven debates on grand strategy should definitely read this book." * International Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Benjamin Miller Introduction The Puzzle and the Argument 1 Between Offensive Liberalism and Defensive Realism—Four Approaches to Grand Strategy 2 Explaining Changes in Grand Strategy 3 The Road to Offensive Realism: The Evolution of US Grand Strategy in the Early Cold War, 1945–50 4 From Preponderance to Détente after the Cuban Missile Crisis 5 From Détente to the “Second Cold War”: From Kennedy to Carter 6 Reagan’s Turn to the Second Détente 7 Making the World in Its Own Image: The Post–Cold War Grand Strategy 8 The Post-9/11 Period: The Emergence of Offensive Liberalism 9 Obama: From Defensive Liberalism to Defensive Realism—Systemic Changes Lead to the End of the Liberalization Project 10 America First: The Trump Grand Strategy in a Comparative Perspective 11 The Past, Present, and Future of American Grand Strategy: Some Final Observations Appendix 1: Indicators of Grand Strategy Change Appendix 2: Summary of Major Changes in US Grand Strategy and Their Explanation Appendix 3: Competing US Approaches to Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press DAlbuquerques Children Performing Tradition in
Book SynopsisThis work examines the musical influences of a Malaysia's Portuguese community, whose roots lie in the conquest of Malacca in 1511 by the Portuguese seafarer Afonse D'Albuquerque.
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The University of Chicago Press Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump
Book SynopsisAmerican foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key security approaches available to US decision-makers in times of war and peace. Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of competing grand strategies that accounts for objectives and means of security policy. Miller puts forward a model that is widely applicable, based on empirical evidence from post-WWII to today, and shows that external factors--rather than internal concerns--are the most determinative.Trade Review“Miller and Rubinovitz take US grand strategy seriously and offer in this landmark study an original, provocative, and engaging explanation for how and why it has evolved over the last seventy-five years.” -- Peter Feaver, Duke University“No scholar is more adept than Miller at combining domestic and systemic factors to explain the workings of the international system. His formidable skills are on full display in his new book, where he tells a fascinating story about the evolution of American grand strategy.” -- John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago“This book provides a powerful explanation for the significant, consequential, and often puzzling changes in American foreign policy since World War II. International relations theorists, historians, and policy analysts will all want to engage Miller and Rubinovitz’s provocative argument, which combines innovative theorizing and detailed historical analysis.” -- Jack S. Levy, Rutgers University“Integrating broad strands of international relations theory and tackling the gigantic literature on American foreign policy writ large, Miller and Rubinovitz propose and evaluate a sweeping and ambitious explanation of shifts in US grand strategy since WWII. Empirically rich and theoretically savvy, this is a signal contribution to scholarship on topics of enormous real-world importance.” -- William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College“This bold and provocative account of US foreign policy marries conceptual innovation to a parsimonious realist theoretical framework to empirics of impressive sweep. Even skeptics will have to concede that Miller’s rigorous focus on the distribution of international power and on the level of international threat generates powerful insights into the changing emphases of US foreign policy over the decades. A welcome, major addition to the burgeoning literature on grand strategy.” -- Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota“With a carefully wrought synthetic theory and a sweeping historical narrative, Miller and Rubinovitz advance a new explanation for great-power grand strategies. They argue that whether the US follows a realist or liberal foreign policy, and whether it does so in offensive or defensive fashion, it is responding to changes in the international balance of power and level of threat. It’s a realist answer, one that many leading realists have long resisted.” -- John Owen, University of Virginia“Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump asks one of the most consequential questions of our day: what leads great powers to shift their strategy? The authors answer it by laying out a novel theory and applying it to the US since WWII. The result is an important book that ought to be read by all those interested in the US role in the world.” -- Nuno P. Monteiro, Yale University"Combining innovative theoretical insights with careful historical research, Miller and Rubinovitz’s new book makes an important contribution to our understanding of American strategy since World War II.” -- Thomas Christensen, Columbia University"Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump is an interesting and innovative book that accounts for variations and shifts in American grand strategy... Anyone interested in academic, theory-driven debates on grand strategy should definitely read this book." * International Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Benjamin Miller Introduction The Puzzle and the Argument 1 Between Offensive Liberalism and Defensive Realism—Four Approaches to Grand Strategy 2 Explaining Changes in Grand Strategy 3 The Road to Offensive Realism: The Evolution of US Grand Strategy in the Early Cold War, 1945–50 4 From Preponderance to Détente after the Cuban Missile Crisis 5 From Détente to the “Second Cold War”: From Kennedy to Carter 6 Reagan’s Turn to the Second Détente 7 Making the World in Its Own Image: The Post–Cold War Grand Strategy 8 The Post-9/11 Period: The Emergence of Offensive Liberalism 9 Obama: From Defensive Liberalism to Defensive Realism—Systemic Changes Lead to the End of the Liberalization Project 10 America First: The Trump Grand Strategy in a Comparative Perspective 11 The Past, Present, and Future of American Grand Strategy: Some Final Observations Appendix 1: Indicators of Grand Strategy Change Appendix 2: Summary of Major Changes in US Grand Strategy and Their Explanation Appendix 3: Competing US Approaches to Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Devotions Phoenix Poets
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The University of Chicago Press Transfigurements On the True Sense of Art
Book SynopsisDevelops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. This title exposes fresh layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits.Trade Review"Deft and patient, Sallis presents essentially a hermeneutical history of the philosophy of art. This is an irreplaceable contribution to the philosophy of art and to philosophy itself because it shows the transition to a philosophy beyond metaphysics." (Choice) "The character of Sallis's scholarship in this volume is matched throughout by clarity of thought.... A lasting contribution to the philosophy of art." (Notre Dame Philosophical Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press Inventing the Ties That Bind Imagined
Book SynopsisAt a time of deep political divisions, leaders have called on ordinary Americans to talk to one another: to share their stories, listen empathetically, and focus on what they have in common, not what makes them different. In Inventing the Ties that Bind, Francesca Polletta questions this popular solution for healing our rifts. Talking the way that friends do is not the same as equality, she points out. And initiatives that bring strangers together for friendly dialogue may provide fleeting experiences of intimacy, but do not supply the enduring ties that solidarity requires. But Polletta also studies how Americans cooperate outside such initiatives, in social movements, churches, unions, government, and in their everyday lives. She shows that they often act on behalf of people they see as neighbors, not friends, as allies, not intimates, and people with whom they have an imagined relationship, not a real one. To repair our fractured civic landscape, she argues, we should draw on the riTrade Review"Imagining the Ties That Bind is a perceptive meditation on the capacities and deceptions of everyday social imaginaries. Polletta has given us a powerful thinking tool to enrich our research with a broader and more piercing sociological imagination." * American Journal of Sociology *"It is challenging to do justice to Inventing the Ties that Bind because it draws adroitly across such a diversity of cases and lines of argumentation, and accomplishes so much. In addition to the book's major contributions to cultural and political sociology, movement scholars interested in culture in general, and solidarity, story, ritual, and emotions specifically, will find the book offers fresh and compelling insights." * Mobilization *“Reading through Inventing the Ties That Bind is like a jaunt through what you thought was a familiar public park or streetscape only to be jolted, over and over again, with a novel, provocative, or hard-hitting insight that makes the contours of the familiar leap into shimmering, breathtaking focus. The book is exciting, timely, ambitious, beautifully written, and is sure to have a broad audience.” -- Ann Mische, Notre Dame University“This book is timely, original and wonderfully synthetic. While the cultural turn in the study of social movements has been well underway for some time, Polletta’s understanding of culture is far more sophisticated than that of many authors who work in this vein. Moreover, she speaks directly to some key debates in our turbulent political times, including how to talk to people across the many divides that fracture our polity.” -- Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University "With whom do we bond? Social science tells us it is with friends of friends, popular people, and those with whom we share social and organizational affiliations. Fair enough, but there are many exceptions—and when it comes to establishing empathy and social solidarity in complex societies, these exceptions may be more important than the rule. This book is about the exceptions, the ways in which people use analogy to construct relationships across social boundaries, and about why strategic recipes for producing such relationships usually fail to do so. In this subtle and insightful study, Polletta delineates the intimate links between situation, imagination, interaction, and identity, providing signposts for reconstructing community in the face of anomie and polarization." -- Paul DiMaggio, New York University“How can strangers be turned into people we feel solidarity with? This is the burning question that distinguished expert of social movements and deliberation Polletta takes on in her remarkable book. She examines evidence from across the social sciences about the relative value of various paths of action, which may include moral norms, self-interest, civility, emotions, rituals, advocacy, self-disclosure, and feel-good exercise. Through rich case studies, she argues against encouraging a culture of superficial intimacy. Instead, the secret sauce for 'solidarity across differences' is building imagined relationships over time through practice and 'relationship schemas.' As a wide-ranging contribution of stunning originality, Inventing the Ties that Bind deserves to have a broad readership from sociology, political science, and beyond." -- Michèle Lamont, Harvard University"Seeking to transcend today’s constricted politics, Inventing the Ties that Bind probes the fundamental nature of identity and solidarity. With original research on cases from early Civil Rights organizing to professionally-curated civic dialogues, Polletta explores how people imagine–and reimagine–their relationships with others different from themselves. Polletta shows how, as social and moral beings, we can draw from existing relationship schemas–as family members, citizens, and friends–to imagine, and enact, more inclusive, just, and equal forms of cooperation and of struggle." -- Ann Swidler, University of California, Berkeley"In Inventing the Ties that Bind, Francesca Polletta, a distinguished contributor the literature on social movements, probes what is needed to build solidarity." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Relationships, Real and Imagined 2 Free-Riders and Freedom Riders 3 Whom One Oweswith Zaibu Tufail 4 Publics, Partners, and the Promise of Dialogue 5 The Art of Authentic Connection 6 Solidarity without Intimacy 7 The Uneasy Balm of Communication Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Newcomers to Old Towns
Book SynopsisAlthough the death of small town has been predicted for decades, during 1990s population of rural America increased by more than three million people. This book considers these rural newcomers and their impact on social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small-town America.Trade Review"Salamon has written an engaging story that puts a human face on the macro-level shifts affecting the once agrarian rural communities of the American Midwest. Through her stories of six central Illinois 'postagrarian' towns, she deftly illuminates much of the micro-foundation of these shifts in the daily decisions of people." - Ralph B. Brown, Rural History "If you are one of the many millions of Americans who is thinking about 'moving out to the country,' you should read this book first." - William R. Freudenburg, Contexts"
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The University of Chicago Press Making Memory Matter Strategies of Remembrance
Book SynopsisIn an ancient account of painting's origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand years after this story was first told, contemporary artists are returning to similar strategies of remembrance, ranging from vaudevillian silhouettes and sepulchral casts to incinerated architectures and ghostly processions.Exploring these artists' work, Saltzman demonstrates that their methods have now eclipsed painting and traditional sculpture as preeminent forms of visual representation. She pays particular attention to the groundbreaking art of Krzysztof Wodiczko, who is known for his projections of historical subjects; Kara Walker, who creates powerful silhouetted images of racial violence in American history; and Rachel Whiteread, whose work centers on making casts of empty interior spaces. Each of the artists Saltzman discusses is struggling with the roles that histo
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The University of Chicago Press How Natives Think About Captain Cook For Example
Book SynopsisThis volume seeks to go far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, is a reaffirmation for understanding difference.
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The University of Chicago Press Culture and Practical Reason
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The University of Chicago Press Redefining Geek Bias and the Five Hidden Habits
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through extensive interviews, fieldwork, and surveys, [Puckett] uncovers what it takes for teenagers to learn new technologies . . . Overall, this is a thoroughly researched book that nonetheless presents a set of easy-to-understand and actionable conclusions. It should have broad appeal both among sociologists interested in inequality as well as among educators, policy makers, and parents." * Social Forces *"Redefining Geek will serve as an essential guide for a generation of educators who are grappling with how best to teach and lead in this technological age. Puckett draws on a deep data set to redefine what it means to be competent with technology, bust a pile of myths much in need of busting, and offer clear steps for helping students develop the habits they need to succeed in life, work, and play. This book will guide how we tackle digital inequality and support the learning process of young people of all races, ethnicities, and genders for years to come." -- John Palfrey, president, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation"Puckett is a terrific writer with a broad, precise, empathetic, and thoroughly researched account of technology education and where it falls short. In Redefining Geek, Puckett carefully dispels myths about natural technological ability and grit that perpetuate existing inequalities. She offers practical and innovative ideas to make STEM more inclusive. Providing fresh analysis with new stories and actionable examples, Redefining Geek is a smart, engaging look at what needs to change about education in order to bring about technology that benefits us all." -- Joanne McNeil, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User "Redefining Geek is essential reading for educators. Using evidence from extensive fieldwork with students and teachers in STEM programs across the US, Puckett deftly dismantles popular assumptions about the origins of technological ability. Through poignant quotes and engaging stories, Puckett reveals that neither 'natural' talent nor 'grit' can explain why some students are able to navigate the changing technological landscape and learn new technology tools and platforms. Instead, and building on prior research in the science of teaching and learning, Puckett shows that technological competence is the product of five key habits. These include: 1) being willing to try and fail, 2) knowing how to manage frustration and boredom, 3) using models to think through difficult problems, 4) asking why things work the way they do (design-based thinking), and 5) asking how things can be done more quickly or more easily (efficiency-based thinking). By uncovering the habit-based origins of technological competence, and by revealing how successful programs cultivate these habits in students (including in low-income students, Black, Latinx, and Native American students, and girls of all backgrounds), Redefining Geek offers a new way forward for those interested in tackling longstanding inequalities in STEM." -- Jessica McCrory Calarco, author of Negotiating Opportunities"Through her solid research and her experiences with working with diverse student learners, Puckett does an exemplary job in helping readers understand and rethink what it means to be technologically competent. This is especially important considering our world is more reliant on technology due to the COVID-19 pandemic and having tech skills is essential. This knowledge and her guidance—coupled with a thorough examination of how our biases can further exacerbate the digital divide—is beneficial in designing tech educational curriculums and programs that are more inclusive and supportive to the diverse communities that they are serving. A must-read for any professional seeking to improve and advance technology education." -- Susanne Tedrick, author of Women of Color in Tech"Cassidy Puckett understands that the learning disposition--how students feel about learning—as well as their perceptions of their ability to learn--a sense of efficacy—are critical to learning outcomes. In Redefining Geek, Puckett introduces a set of learning habits to help students develop a growth mindset in STEM learning. Through sound research and sharp insights, Puckett makes a convincing case that it’s not only important that students learn how to use the technology available to them today but that they develop the habits and mindset that will support their ability to use and design with the technologies of the future." -- S. Craig Watkins, author of the Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital InequalityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Are Some People So Good with Technology? Chapter 1. Why Does Digital Inequality Persist? Chapter 2. What Helps People Learn: Three General Technology Learning Habits Chapter 3. Techie Tricks: The Two Technology-Specific Habits Chapter 4. Recognizing the Five Habits: The Digital Adaptability Scale Chapter 5. The Five Habits, Teens' Futures, and Digital Inequality Chapter 6. Tackling Digital Inequality: Gatekeepers Conclusion: Envisioning an Equitable Future Acknowledgments Appendix: A Reflection on Mixed-Methods Research Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Science on a Mission
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book shows why oceanography may be the vital science whose history we need to understand if we want a picture of the evolving relationships between science and the American state over the last century. With her characteristic but rare combination of philosophical and historical insight, and her sharp eye for the politics beneath the surface, Oreskes has skillfully interpreted the wide-ranging legacies of oceanography, and brought them into our understanding of scientific--and political--debates of the present day."--Katharine Anderson, York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Personal, the Political, and the Scientific 2 Seeing the Ocean through Operational Eyes: The Stommel-Arons Model of Abyssal Circulation 3 Whose Science Is It Anyway? The Woods Hole Palace Revolt 4 Stymied by Secrecy: Harry Hess and Seafloor Spreading 5 The Iron Curtain of Classification: What Difference Did It Make? 6 Why the Navy Built Alvin 7 Painting Projects White: The Discovery of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents 8 From Expertise to Advocacy: The Seabed Disposal of Radioactive Waste 9 Changing the Mission: From the Cold War to Climate Change Conclusion: The Context of Motivation Acknowledgments Sources and Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Tungara Frog A Study in Sexual Selection and
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The University of Chicago Press White Market Drugs
Book SynopsisTrade Review “Herzberg traces historical shifts from medicalization to criminalization and back. He carefully outlines the multiple factors that led to reckless opioid prescribing around the turn of the millennium and . . . argues effectively for policies to limit the distorting effect of profit-motivated drug provision. This could include everything from decriminalizing illicit drugs to nationalizing Big Pharma: turning drug companies into public utilities.” * Globe and Mail *“Herzberg traces historical shifts from medicalization to criminalization and back. He carefully outlines the multiple factors that led to reckless opioid prescribing around the turn of the millennium and . . . argues effectively for policies to limit the distorting effect of profit-motivated drug provision. This could include everything from decriminalizing illicit drugs to nationalizing Big Pharma: turning drug companies into public utilities.” * The Globe and Mail *“At the start of White Market Drugs, Herzberg laments that ‘pharmaceutical opioids do not yet have their historian.’ They do now. He has presented a careful and comprehensive chronicle spanning more than a century.” * Wall Street Journal * “In the style of a classic work of alternative history, Herzberg’s White Markets reminds us that over the last 150 years, pharmaceutical boom and bust cycles have continually hit small towns and communities across America.” * New Republic *“An important book for casting a well-studied slice of history in a new light. . . . highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of drugs, crime and incarceration, and the American administrative state." -- Nicolas Rasmussen, American Historical Review“White Market Drugs examin[es] the troubled history of psychoactive drugs in America. Herzberg considers licit and illicit drugs together, arguing that the marketing of medicine relies on the stigmatization and criminalization of those who consume drugs outside the medical system; the development of America’s gargantuan pharmaceutical markets must be understood alongside the growth of the illicit drug market. His choice of the phrase ‘white market’ to describe pharmaceuticals reflects the racial bias that has been baked into this system from the start.” * Dissent *"Herzberg argues that the vast majority of American experiences with drugs and addiction have taken place within what he calls “white markets,” where legal drugs—i.e., medicine—are sold to a largely white clientele. He advocates for a consumer protection approach that regulates all drug markets while caring for people with addiction by ensuring they have safe, reliable access to medication-assisted treatment. Accomplishing this, Herzberg explains, would require rethinking a racially segregated drug/medicine divide." * Publishers Weekly *“White Market Drugs provides essential backstory for a string of Pharma-stoked drug crises. Reading Herzberg, you can see the prescription opioid addiction epidemic coming from a mile away. This book is a powerful prequel to the body of investigative reporting on what now seems like the worst scandal in US medical history.” -- David T. Courtwright, author of Dark Paradise and The Age of Addiction“David Herzberg’s White Market Drugs is a fantastic book that tells the history of addictive pharmaceuticals in the United States since the late 19th century through the current ‘twin crises’ of opioid addiction and mass incarceration of racial minorities. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of addictive pharmaceuticals and show how imbricated that history is within the broader history of addiction, drug policy, and health care in America.” -- Dominique Tobbell, author of Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences"In this sweeping analysis of a century of US drug policy, Herzberg asks why our clinical, carceral, public health, and police responses to addictive substances have hinged on the false dichotomy between dangerous drugs and legitimate pharmaceuticals—and shows how this distinction has always had more to do with the politics of respectability than any underlying principles of pharmacology. Meticulously researched and clearly written, White Market Drugs provides not only an indictment of the failures of the present but also a roadmap for reducing harm in the future: a must-read for all concerned with the human toll of America’s long and costly wars on drugs." -- Jeremy Greene, author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine“[Herzberg has a] fantastic eye for politically led motives. . . [he] provides brilliant lessons on white-market policy.” * The British Journal for the History of Science *“Herzberg understands markets.” * Regulation *“What Herzberg does best is put flesh on the bones of drug consumers on both sides of the great divide—teaching us that the vast majority of drug users are white, middle-class consumers in the midst of the ‘white market apocalypse. * Journal of Social History *Herzberg’s masterful book . . . brings together novel theoretical framing, profound policy analysis, and attention to the narratives of those most intimately affected by these policies. He offers a promising framework to address the many challenges in our current drug policies. Policymakers would be well served to take notice of this book." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *The William J. Rorabaugh Book Prize * The Alcohol and Drug History Society *Table of ContentsIntroductionThe First Crisis 1 Drug wars and white markets 2 “Legitimate addicts” in the first drug war 3 Preventing blockbuster opioidsThe Second Crisis 4 Opioids out, barbiturates in 5 A new crisis and a new response 6 White markets, under controlThe Third Crisis 7 White market apocalypse Conclusion: Learning from the past Appendix: White market sales and overdose rates, 1870–2015 Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Richard Owen Biology without Darwin
Book SynopsisIn the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. This is a biography of Owen.Trade Review"This is not a standard biography in the traditional sense, but a marvelous interrogation of one of Victorian Britain's major scientists. It succeeds in capturing the remarkable and multifaceted career of Richard Owen himself, while at the same time opening up the entire culture of British natural history in the nineteenth century. An outstanding work." - David Livingstone, Queen's University Belfast"
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The University of Chicago Press Dance of the Dolphin Transformation and
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1979, The Darwinian Revolution was a comprehensive synthesis of the history of evolutionary thought. For this edition, Michael Ruse has written an afterword that takes into account the research published since his book's first appearance.
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The University of Chicago Press Projecting the Shadow The Cyborg Hero in
Book SynopsisThe cyborg is the hero of an increasingly popular genre of American film. Drawing from representative films such as Jaws, The Deer Hunter and The Manchurian Candidate the authors track the narrative's thread from the hunter to his technological nemesis.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1: The Intellectual Landscape 2: The Transmodern Frontier 3: The Hunter Myth 4: Jaws: Faces of the Shadow 5: The Deer Hunter: The End of Innocence 6: The Manchurian Candidate: The Human as Weapon 7: Blade Runner: On the Edge 8: The Terminator: Future-Perfect Tense 9: Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Effacing the Shadow Conclusion Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Lady Ranelagh
Book SynopsisTrade Review"DiMeo reveals Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, as central to political, religious, philosophical and medical discussions, yet destined to be forgotten, because she obeyed the convention that women should not put their thoughts into print. DiMeo . . . has used her archival skills to trawl the papers of Ranelagh's mostly male contemporaries to uncover her role as a public intellectual. . . . DiMeo is scrupulous in tethering her observations to their archival sources. . . . That [Ranelagh's] story is gathered from the papers of her male relatives and associates highlights how easy it is for women to fall through the cracks of history." * Nature *"Ranelagh's works were never published nor were her manuscripts preserved . . . . To address this, historian Michelle DiMeo has written the first full-length biography of Ranelagh by gleaning details of her life from her correspondence and the archives and writings of her relatives and contemporaries. The result is a detailed account of this notable woman, her work, and her close, collaborative relationship with her brother Robert—set against the backdrop of the turbulent politics of the times, including the Irish and English civil wars." * Physics Today *"In Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister, Michelle DiMeo adroitly weaves together the extant evidence to bring this spectral figure to life. . . Through her careful reconstruction, DiMeo’s study shows, perhaps more fully than any extant volume, how a well-positioned seventeenth-century woman, who was formally excluded from the Church, universities, and Royal Society, could have a quiet say over the political and scientific direction of a nation." * Nuncius *"With this timely intellectual biography of the incomparable Lady Ranelagh, DiMeo presents a powerful portrait of an impressive intellectual figure and most remarkable woman, whose importance in the intellectual and scientific life of seventeenth century Britain went far beyond being Robert Boyle’s supportive and beloved sister." * Metascience *"For almost 400 years, it has been a struggle to find the right words to describe Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. . . . In this engaging and deeply researched study, Michele DiMeo has taken up the gauntlet, and finally done justice to Lady Ranelagh. Choosing an approach that seems to cycle in and out of style in the history of science – that of the intellectual biography – DiMeo has captured Ranelagh as she moved through tumultuous times for nation, faith, and natural philosophy. And what emerges is a woman who occupied a place of respect in all of these, someone whose piety was unquestioned despite the personality that meant she was often ‘bold, sarcastic, and outspoken’ (p. 3)." * Annals of Science *"Lady Ranelagh was one of the most remarkable women of her day, and it is wonderful at last to have a book-length study of her. DiMeo meticulously weaves together the fragmentary surviving sources to provide a clear and convincing picture of a truly great figure. She illustrates the extraordinary range of eminent peers on whom Lady Ranelagh had real influence, throwing especially important light on her role in the emotional and intellectual development of her brother, the scientist Robert Boyle. Some of the most telling passages in the book deal with Lady Ranelagh's medical expertise, where she benefited from the lack of clear demarcation between professional and lay practice at the time. DiMeo also has important things to say about the significance of gender in intellectual life, illustrating how a woman like Lady Ranelagh retained an unexpectedly significant role behind the scenes, albeit one subsequently largely effaced. In all, this lucid and revealing biography is indispensable." -- Michael Hunter, author of The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment"In this sensitive and inspiring biography, DiMeo resuscitates from fragmentary and forgotten evidence a leading religiopolitical reformer and strategist during Britain’s civil wars, medical practitioner in a period of transformation, and natural philosopher at the founding of the Royal Society. Lady Ranelagh’s invisibility today, like that of other female intellectuals of the time, is ironically a tribute to her success in this role in the past. Without DiMeo’s sleuthing, Ranelagh’s ideas, arguments, and experiences—hidden in her letters, within her brother’s writings, and in the many dedications acknowledging her collaboration—would be forgotten forever." -- Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University"This is a thorough and carefully considered intellectual biography which will become a mainstay for those seeking to learn about 'philosophical' British women of the seventeenth century, at last letting us hear Lady Ranelagh's voice alongside contemporaries like Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Lucy Hutchinson as well as her famous brother. DiMeo offers a judicious, comprehensive view of the life and thought of her subject." -- Harold J. Cook, author of The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War"Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, was a remarkable woman who played an important role in the intellectual and political circles of her day. However, the loss of most of her writings has meant that, until now, she has been remembered (if at all) only as the sister of her famous brother, the natural philosopher Robert Boyle. DiMeo's excellent biographical study is a feat of historical detective work and reconstruction, which restores Katherine Ranelagh to visibility as a prominent collaborator and mentor at the center of events in the scientific and political history of seventeenth-century Ireland and England." -- Sarah Hutton, University of York"Michelle DiMeo has filled an important gap with this first book-length biography chronicling [Ranelagh's] remarkable life. DiMeo’s book offers fascinatingly novel insights into one of the most important and influential female figures in seventeenth-century Britain and provides a fresh perspective on wider questions within the history of (women in) science. The book also makes significant methodological contributions, helping to advance research on other under-studied and sparsely documented women in science." * British Journal of the History of Science *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Conventions Introduction 1 Birth, Childhood, and Marriage (1615–42) 2 Early Days in the Hartlib Circle (1642–48) 3 Formative Years in Natural Philosophy and Medicine (1649–56) 4 Return to Ireland (1656–59) 5 Death of the Hartlib Circle and Birth of the Royal Society (1658–67) 6 Plague, Providence, and Medical Practice (1665–67) 7 Robert Boyle Moves In (1668–90) Conclusion: Death and Legacy Acknowledgments Appendix: Boyle Family Genealogy Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Crossing the Class Color Lines From Public
Book SynopsisIn the US, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhoods. The Gautreaux program was especially designed to help redress this problem. This work shows this unique experiment in racial, social, and economic integration.Trade Review"This book's history of Chicago public housing should be required reading for anyone interested in social policy in the United States." - Jens Ludwig, Social Service Review; "[The authors"] work is rightly cited as one of the important precedents in the field.... This is a remarkable, unassailable accomplishment and this book is an important record of their scholarly contribution." - John M. Goering, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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The University of Chicago Press Music and Musical Thought in Early India Chicago
Book SynopsisOffering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures, formal patterns, and genres of Indian music from Vedic times to the thirteenth century, presenting not so much a history as a thematic analysis and interpretation of India's magnificent musical heritage. In Indian culture, music forms an integral part of a broad framework of ideas that includes philosophy, cosmology, religion, literature, and science. Rowell works with the known theoretical treatises and the oral tradition in an effort to place the technical details of musical practice in their full cultural context. Many quotations from the original Sanskrit appear here in English translation for the first time, and the necessary technical information is presented in terms accessible to the
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The University of Chicago Press Bonds of the Dead
Book SynopsisDespite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This title investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan.Trade Review"Bonds of the Dead contains a wealth of fascinating information that reminds us that human societies rely on religion to confront the insurmountable problem of death." (William Bodiford, University of California, Los Angeles)"
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The University of Chicago Press Music and Trance A Theory of the Relations
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The University of Chicago Press Emblems of Mind The Inner Life of Music and
Book SynopsisOne is a science, the other an art; one useful, the other seemingly decorative, but mathematics and music share common origins in cult and mystery. This work explains how mathematics makes sense of space, how music tells a story, how theories are constructed, how melody is shaped. It argues that they are images of the mind at work and play.Trade Review"Expect luminous rewards by the end and exhilaration throughout the journey." - Hugh Kenner, Wall Street Journal "Provocative and exciting.... Rothstein writes this book as a foreign correspondent, sending dispatches from a remote and mysterious locale as a guide for the intellectually adventurous. The remarkable fact about his work is not that it is profound, as much of the writing is, but that it is so accessible." - Christian Science Monitor "Lovely, wistful.... Rothstein is a wonderful guide to the architecture of musical space, its tensions and relations, its resonances and proportions.... His account of what is going on in the music is unfailingly felicitous." - New Yorker"
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The University of Chicago Press Courts Jurisdictions and Law in John Milton and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chapman has written an excellent book, a fit companion for her award-winning Legal Epic. Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law is engaging and informative, economically expressed without sacrificing clarity or detail, and everywhere displaying expert knowledge of early modern law and of Milton’s body of work. With her twin studies, Chapman has secured a place at the fore of recent scholarship on early modern literature and law." * Modern Philology *"Alison Chapman’s Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries. . . represents a crucial addition to not only Milton studies but to seventeenth-century legal studies in England." * Comitatus *“[An] outstanding new monograph… Chapman’s book proves beyond reasonable doubt that legal issues played an enduring part in Milton’s thinking, and gives a detailed sense of how they did so. It is clearly written and well-informed on a complex subject. The book will be valuable to Miltonists, and to scholars working at the intersection of early modern law and literature.” * Review of English Studies *“Chapman’s new book, Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries, extends her prior examinations and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how Milton approached the existing patchwork of English legal systems.” * New Rambler Review *"Well suited to an intersectional field of law and literature that places questions of race, gender and religion at its center." * Seventeenth-Century News *“Chapman’s work is both highly original and exceptionally readable, bringing together imaginative engagement with legal language, convincing arguments, and refreshingly forthright responses to other scholars. She presents unfamiliar legal matters in lucid, sometimes witty prose and cautions her readers against importing modern assumptions into early modern English literature. Students and scholars of Milton will benefit enormously from her carefully developed contextualization of Milton’s assumptions regarding jurisprudential fields, specific legal terms, and his own rhetorical practices.” -- Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto“With careful attention to legal language, Chapman pulls at the tensions between libel and defamation, convincingly showing Milton’s continued interest in such questions. These are valuable new readings that explain several apparent tensions, and they show that Milton’s legal orientation can account for many of the most oddly vituperative moments in his prose. This is a very welcome addition to Milton studies.” -- Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University"Chapman considers the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light the poet John Milton’s use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the time... Chapman highlights the variety and nuance in Milton’s juridical toolkit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice." * Law & Social Inquiry *"[This book] is not only an education in early modern law and in Miltonic rhetoric but also, in its acute exposition of the legalistic, if not authoritarian, bias of the great republican, Puritan, and libertarian, one of the best recent critical studies of Milton." * Milton Quarterly *Table of ContentsA Note on Texts List of Abbreviations Preface: Making Sense of Many Laws Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Defending One’s Good Name: Free Speech in the Early Prose Chapter 3: Monstrous Books: Areopagitica and the Problem of Libel Chapter 4: Civil Law and Equity in the Divorce Tracts Chapter 5: Defending Pro Se Defensio Chapter 6: The Tithes of War: Paying God Back in Paradise Lost Chapter 7: “Justice in Thir Own Hands”: Local Courts in the Late Prose Afterword: Justice in the Columbia Manuscript Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Playing in Time
Book SynopsisFrom jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns, this book delivers two dozen essays that revolve around the themes and obsessions that have characterized Rotella's writing from the start: boxing, music, writers, and cities.Trade Review"Carlo Rotella is an old-fashioned journalist in the best sense of the term: he doesn't just visit the people and places he writes about, he inhabits them. His articles and essays are models of empathy and understanding. And because he is a man who appreciates craft - the craft of boxers, fencers, musicians, and clowns - his own work always strikes the right celebratory note, the one that ends with just the slightest inflection of melancholy - which, unparadoxically, is what makes his work a pleasure to read." (Arthur Krystal)"
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The University of Chicago Press Sexuality across the Life Course
Book SynopsisA collection of 14 essays on sexual behaviour, from adolescence to old age, and covering such groups as singles, married couples, homosexuals and African-American men and women. This volume also looks at topics such as the effects of chronic disease and medication on sexual functioning.
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The University of Chicago Press Queer Legacies Stories from Chicagos LGBTQ
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Informative and plainspoken. . . Makes a convincing case for the power of storytelling to build communities and movements, and the importance of archival records in preserving 'a proud heritage of resistance.' This sparkling account has much to offer LGBTQ historians and activists.” * Publishers Weekly *“Queer Legacies offers an inspiring overview of individual perseverance, poignant losses, and stirring collective gains. . . . As much a work of love – D'Emilio's passion for prowling through the Gerber-Hart Archives and the countless stories they contain is palpable – as it is a work of history. . . . Now Chicago can boast a worthy addition to the growing body of place-based queer histories.” * PopMatters *"D’Emilio is an award-winning author and University of Illinois at Chicago professor emeritus who has researched LGBTQ+ history for decades. In Queer Legacies, he turns his focus on stories from the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, Chicago’s repository for queer history. . . . These inquiries highlight the diversity of activism and experience and are grouped by such themes as religion, lesbian history, and AIDS activism. D'Emilio doesn’t shy away from the passion of short-lived ventures or the ideological conflicts that caused the demise of activist groups." * Booklist *“It wouldn’t be completely wrong to describe Queer Legacies as the closest thing to the Pride Parade we’ll get this year. . . . Like the physical parade, the book has a bit of everything. . . . As a scholar, D’Emilio has turned archives into allies, expanding a community’s understanding of itself and its commitments.” * Third Coast Review *"Recommended. . . Rather than offering just biographical sketches of queer activists in the Windy City, however, the majority of the 38 chapters outline the sheer variety of groups active in promoting civil rights and social acceptance for LGBTQ people, primarily during and after the history-making 1969 Stonewall Riots and until the AIDS crisis of the 1980s." * Choice *"As entertaining as it is intellectually stimulating. . . . The book rewards its readers with a wealth of details and surprising insights." * Soziopolis *“Reading Queer Legacies is like sitting across the dinner table, spellbound, as D’Emilio spins a tapestry of queer life in Chicago. By the time dessert arrives, you’ve not only learned a lot of history, but also what it’s like to find moving and shocking surprises in dusty archive boxes. D’Emilio has once again worked his magic.” * Leila Rupp, author of A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America *“A wonderfully evocative book and an unparalleled look at Chicago’s LGBTQ past. Full of fascinating stories, Queer Legacies gives us a front-row seat to over fifty years of community building and activism.” * David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government *“D’Emilio is a true master of the archive and a writer who brings the past to life as few others do. This guide to Chicago’s queer activist past is a new kind of community history, one that illustrates the possibilities of the historian’s craft and, at the same time, provides a valuable and vibrant guide to one of our most important LGBTQ collections.” * Claire Potter, author of Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Merle’s Story 2 The Struggle for Self-Acceptance: The Life of George Buse 3 Renee Hanover: Always a Radical 4 Max Smith: A Gay Liberationist at Heart 5 The Gay Liberation Era in Chicago 6 A Queer Radical’s Story: Step May and Chicago Gay Liberation 7 The Transvestite Legal Committee 8 A National Network under the Radar: The Transvestite Information Service 9 A Mother to Her Family: The Life of Robinn Dupree 10 Controversy on Campus: Northwestern University and Garrett Theological Seminary 11 Activist Catholics: Dignity’s Work in the 1970s and 1980s 12 Dennis Halan and the Story of Chicago’s “Gay Mass” 13 Moving Forward with Integrity 14 Lutherans Concerned: A Continuing Struggle 15 Running for Office: The Campaign of Gary Nepon 16 Ten Years after Stonewall: The Police Are Still Attacking Us 17 Trying to Work Together: The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Metropolitan Chicago 18 Knowledge Is Power: Chicago’s Gay Academic Union 19 Sexual Orientation and the Law 20 A Lesbian Community Center in Chicago 21 The Artemis Singers and the Power of Music 22 Printing Our Way to Freedom: The Metis Press 23 Picturing Lesbian History: The Passion of Janet Soule 24 Lesbian Chicago: Striving for Visibility 25 We Are Family: The Birth of Amigas Latinas 26 Our Legacy Lives On: Amigas Latinas as an Activist Force 27 Challenging a Color Line: Black and White Men Together 28 Chicago Mobilizes to March on Washington 29 Confronting AIDS: The Response of Black and White Men Together 30 The Rise of Bisexual Activism 31 Impact ’88: Becoming a Force in Electoral Politics 32 Facing Off with the Media: The Work of GLAAD-Chicago 33 Building Community: Peg Grey and the Power of Sports 34 Fighting the Military Ban: James Darby and the Effort to Mobilize Veterans 35 The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS 36 A Community Fights AIDS: The Work of BEHIV 37 Making Schools Safe 38 We Will Not Stay Quiet: The 85% Coalition Afterword: Further Reading Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press A Rainbow Palate
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elegant and insightful. . . . What is stunning is how pertinent the book is to our own times. You will find here a rehearsal for everything we are facing today—the fads, the fears, the government interventions that are either too late or too rushed, and the nagging sense that the food that most delights the eye may not always be the food that serves us best." * Times Literary Supplement *"Cobbold has produced a fascinating account and analysis of how these dyes were introduced, contested, and ultimately legitimized in an emerging globalized industrial food system. . . . What Cobbold draws our attention to is the inevitable negotiation around expertise and the permitted uses of novel chemical additives. In doing so, she enters a larger discussion about how novel scientific objects and processes evade control once they emerge from the laboratory and enter the world where they are unexpectedly transformed and used. More broadly, this book helps historicize the public construction of trust in science and chemistry." * Scientia Canadensis *"There are many reasons that Cobbold’s story is compelling. Her research is detailed and extensive, using many archival sources along with other primary and secondary ones. She also makes good use of the scientific and mainstream press, juxtaposing the opinions of chemists, government policymakers, and consumers. Lengthy excerpts from press articles, in particular, convey the flavor of shifting public discourse. A Rainbow Palate is also compelling due to Cobbold’s clear writing, accessible to those with little background in chemical history; the book is punctuated by helpful signposts summarizing and linking sections together. . . . Cobbold’s insights about the 19th century help us to understand why this system of trust has become frayed in the 21st century." * H-Soz-Kult *"A pioneering work of food science, this compact, well-referenced book captures the rise and fall of the use of synthetic chemicals—particularly coal tar dyes—which were employed in food coloring in the US and Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. . . . The book would be a good acquisition for academic and special collections that support food history, food science, and history of chemistry programs. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"A Rainbow Palate fits into a growing body of literature that attempts to bridge the history of modern chemistry to that of food consumption. . . . Cobbold's distinctive contributions to this scholarship become apparent from her deep research into the history of coal tar dyes, revealing the ways in which a profit-driven commitment to the discovery of new synthetic chemicals and their corresponding consumer markets encouraged the inclusion of textile dyes in food." * Technology and Culture *"[Cobbold] highlights a dichotomy between the intimacy we have with our diet and the gulf that often separates us from the understanding of where our ingredients come from." * Nature Reviews Chemistry *"If you thought food coloring was not a serious subject in the history of science, this engaging and accessible book will show you very quickly just how wrong you were. Cobbold tells a wonderful story of complex and fascinating mutual interactions of science, commerce, industry, government, journalism, and law, about how powerful interests jostled around the use and regulation of potentially hazardous synthetic chemical dyes in food. This is a neglected aspect of the celebrated developments in organic chemistry and the dyestuffs industry in the late nineteenth century. In Cobbold’s detailed account, reaching across several countries, we witness how political and legal systems were at a loss to know how to manage and regulate the impact of a formidable and fast-moving field of science, while scientific experts found themselves unable to control the use of their creations or the narratives told about them. A Rainbow Palate is an illuminating cautionary tale of how an important unintended consequence of cutting-edge science can work itself into the very fabric of our daily lives without a clear plan on anyone’s part." -- Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge"In this timely book, Cobbold tells the remarkable story of how the first industrially produced chemical food dyes were created and adjudicated as legitimate additives to food. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century chemists, manufacturers, legislators, and the public all wrestled with questions around food additives still highly relevant today, concerning risk, health, public safety, regulation, testing, and the environment. Were food colorings brilliant instances of scientific and industrial progress or toxic and unnatural artifices? How could dangers be detected and who could keep the public safe? Faced with uncertainty, how should people trust what they ate? Lively and significant, A Rainbow Palate will be indispensable for anyone interested in the difficult process by which societies manage, and fail to manage, radical new technoscientific entities." -- Simon Werrett, author of Thrifty ScienceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Food adulteration and the rise of the food chemist 2 The wonder of coal tar dyes 3 From dye manufacturer to food manufacturer 4 The struggle to devise tests to detect dyes and assess their toxicity 5 The appointment of public food analysts in Britain 6 How British food chemists responded to the use of coal tar dyes 7 French and German chemists seek to arbitrate the use of synthetic chemicals in food 8 The US government acts against chemical dyes in food Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Osiris Volume 35 Food Matters Critical Histories
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsOn the Virtues of Historical EntomophagyE. C. Spary and Anya Zilberstein A Natural History of the KitchenAnita Guerrini Digesting Faith: Eating God, Man, and Meat in Seventeenth-Century RomeBradford Bouley Food, Population, and Empire in the Hartlib Circle, 1639–1660Ted McCormick Perceptions of Provenance: Conceptions of Wine, Health, and Place in Louis XIV’s FranceAlissa Aron Why Drink Water? Diet, Materialisms, and British ImperialismJoyce E. Chaplin The Shape of Meat: Preserving Animal Flesh in Victorian BritainRebecca J. H. Woods The Introduction of Chemical Dyes into Food in the Nineteenth CenturyCarolyn Cobbold The Technopolitics of Food: The Case of German Prison Food from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth CenturiesUlrike Thoms Nutritional Modernity: The German CaseCorinna Treitel The Scientific Lives of Chicha: The Production of a Fermented Beverage and the Making of Expert Knowledge in Bogotá, 1889–1939Stefan Pohl-Valero Historicizing “Indian Systems of Knowledge”: Ayurveda, Exotic Foods, and Contemporary Antihistorical HolismsProjit Bihari Mukharji Local Food and Transnational Science: New Boundary Issues of the Caterpillar Fungus in Republican ChinaDi Lu Hungry, Thinking with Animals: Psychology and Violence at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyDana Simmons World War II and the Quest for Time-Insensitive FoodsDeborah Fitzgerald Meat Mimesis: Laboratory-Grown Meat as a Study in CopyingBenjamin Aldes Wurgaft Breakfast at Buck’s: Informality, Intimacy, and Innovation in Silicon ValleySteven Shapin Notes on Contributors Index
£26.60
