City of Newsmen
Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War
Washington
Kathryn J. McGarr
“With crisp, fluent prose and an eye for telling detail and quotations, McGarr tells an engrossing story of the Washington press during a critical time in world affairs. She sets up her tale with vivid portraits of the early capital, the evolution of the gentlemen’s club of foreign correspondents, and their close but contentious relations with US officials through the early Cold War. McGarr’s archival work has netted a wealth of revealing vignettes and quotations, smoothly woven together in her crisp writing.”—Robert Weisbrot, coauthor of The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change during the 1960s
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66404-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
When the News Broke
Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
Heather Hendershot
A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media.
“In When the News Broke, Hendershot marshals a deeply researched argument for how four turbulent days planted the seeds of public distrust in media that are still bearing bitter fruit. It is a fascinating look back at a dramatic American summer on which the sun has still not set.”
—Ann Marie Lipinski, Harvard University
2023 400 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76852-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Fit Nation
The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
“Petrzela has brought us an intellectually rich and delightfully informative history of how people in the United States have understood, obsessed over, and changed their bodies. In a thorough look at the trends, characters, and ideologies that have informed the body politic and the politics of bodies, Petrzela helps us recognize the weight of constant messaging from industries trying to convince the public to seek perfection endlessly. An important and enjoyable read.”—Marcia Chatelain, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
2023 424 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones
3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65110-1 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Everyone against Us
Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice
Allen Goodman“In Everyone against Us, Goodman offers a behindthe-scenes look at what it’s like to be a public defender in one of the nation’s largest criminal court systems. The result is a gripping and often heartbreaking memoir about one lawyer’s journey to find meaning and justice despite the odds against him.”—Kevin Davis, author of Defending the Damned: Inside a Dark Corner of the Criminal Justice System
Chicago Visions and Revisions
2023 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82623-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
The Cult of Creativity
A Surprisingly Recent History
Samuel W. Franklin“The Cult of Creativity is a beautifully written and well- documented account of how creativity gained the societal value it has today. Franklin reveals the powerful social construction at work behind the meaning of creativity and reminds us that such ideas have historical roots, as well as a more sinister side that should concern us all. Through engaging storylines, he builds a complex picture that is captivating to discover, piece by piece.”
—Vlad Glaveanu, author of Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience
2023 264 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones
5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-65785-1 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Every Goddamn Day
A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago
Neil SteinbergA daily celebration of Chicago’s history, both known and obscure, and always entertaining.
“[Steinberg] creates a moving, living picture of Chicago’s past. . . . here is Chicago in hundreds of glittering facets, with stories of art, theater, industry, racism, injustice, and sheer goofiness. . . .Witty, economical and often whimsical, he lends color and freshness to each event.” —New City
2022 408 p. 51/2 x 81/2 61 halftones
6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77984-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
The Floating University Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge
Tamson Pietsch
The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s.
“With its expert writing and construction, The Floating University is both a pleasure to read and a model of how to connect cultural and imperial histories. Pietsch paints a lively portrait of elite American thinking about knowledge and world affairs in the Jazz Age.”
—Christopher Endy, author of Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones
7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82516-8 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
On Christopher Street Life, Sex, and Death after Stonewall
Michael Denneny
“Because of his pivotal role in creating modern gay literature, Denneny has perhaps done more than any other single individual to actually create contemporary gay literary culture. On Christopher Street shows that there was a first-rate intellect behind his more familiar role as publisher and editor. While this volume is an important window on the recent past, it also demonstrates the extent to which one man’s lively and humane intellect influenced the creation of contemporary gay culture.”
—David Carter, author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
2023 368 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82463-5 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Popularizing the Past Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America
Nick Witham
“Drawing on careful research and writing in sparkling prose that rivals his subjects’, Witham examines how five prominent postwar historians navigated the challenges and rewards of scripting national narratives for audiences beyond the academy. For anyone interested in crafting intellectually robust, readable, and relevant scholarship, Popularizing the Past is essential reading.”
—Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, author of American Nietzsche
2023 240 p. 6 x 9
9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82699-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Beauty and the Brain
The Science of Human Nature in Early America
Rachel E. Walker
“In this lively new study of physiognomy and phrenology, Walker demonstrates how an elitist, Enlightenment ‘science of man’ was reshaped by people on the margins —women, African Americans, and a range of social reformers—to demand broader inclusiveness in the new republic. Beauty and the Brain offers a timely and persuasive reexamination of how equality and inequality form the warp and woof of American popular culture.”
—Karen Halttunen, author of Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
2022 288 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones
10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82256-3 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
The Great American Transit Disaster
A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
“In this cogent and deeply researched book, [Bloom] seeks to explain why leaders in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, and Chicago chose to invest in highways and airways rather than mass transit. Bloom, wisely and perceptively, avoids discredited anti-bus and anti-streetcar ideas, focusing instead on pay-as-you-go transit, auto - centric planning, and white flight. Nick Bloom, as always, is readable, assignable, and compelling.”—Mark H. Rose, coauthor of A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945
Historical Studies of Urban America
2023 368 p. 6 x 9 39 halftones
11 Cloth
ISBN: 978-0-226-82440-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Fascism Comes to America
A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture
Bruce Kuklick
“The book is as much about Hollywood as it is about a movement or ideology. Mr. Kuklick, an accomplished historian of ideas, turns his skills to Hollywood’s treatment of fascism. He explains why American entertainers, intellectuals, and others have so often resorted to the term ‘fascism’ to denounce things they don’t like: FDR’s New Deal, the Reagan Revolution and much else. He surmises that Americans’ obsession with fascism is the flip side of a collective inability to reckon with the calamitous gap between the Founders and contemporary America.”
The Wall Street Journal
2022 264 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones, 1 line drawings
12 Cloth
ISBN: 978-0-226-82146-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Banking on Slavery
Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum
United States
Sharon Ann Murphy
“In a pathbreaking account of the way Americans financed slavery, Murphy connects the vast sweep of that tragedy to the banking that made it possible. Detail by dollar detail, she exposes the structures that transmuted enslaved people into assets and collateral, building white wealth all the while. A powerful—and chilling—book.”
—Christine Desan, author of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism
American Beginnings, 1500-1900
2023 448 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 1 line drawings, 8 tables
13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82513-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Capital Order
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Clara E. Mattei
A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins.
“A fascinating history of the rise of austerity policies in post–World War I Europe and how it paved the way for fascism—along with many of the economic policies of today. A must-read, with key lessons for the future. Historical political economy at its best.”—Thomas Piketty
2022 480 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 8 line drawings, 3 tables
14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81839-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Uncertain Climes
Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America
Joseph Giacomelli
“Uncertain Climes offers a necessary corrective and a significant historiographical contribution that will change how we think about Gilded Age science and environmental history. The genius of Giacomelli’s book is that it embraces the complexity and messiness of the past, challenging the conventional stories historians tell about late-nineteenth- century environmental thought and science.”—Adam Wesley Dean, author of An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era
2023 248 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones
15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82443-7 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
The Education of Betsey Stockton
An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Gregory Nobles
A perceptive and inspiring biography of an extraordinary woman born into slavery who, through grit and determination, became a historic social and educational leader.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69772-7 $25.00
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The Nation That Never Was Reconstructing America’s Story
Kermit Roosevelt III
Our idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
2022 256 p. 6 x 9
17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81761-3 $25.00
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Lydia Maria Child
A Radical American Life
Lydia Moland
A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenthcentury America’s most courageous abolitionists.
2022 560 p. 6 x 9 61 halftones
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The Lost Promise
American Universities in the 1960s
Ellen Schrecker
The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students.
2021 616 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones, 1 table
19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20085-9
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Hearing Happiness Deafness Cures in History
Jaipreet Virdi
Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own— perception of life as a deaf person in America.
2022 328 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82406-2
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Living in the Future
Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Victoria W. Wolcott
Living in the Future reveals the unexplored impact of utopian thought on the major figures of the Civil Rights Movement.
2022 272 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 1 table
21 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81725-5 $30.00
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A Conspiratorial Life
Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism
Edward H. Miller
The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism’s most insidious seeds.
2023 464 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones
22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82650-9
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Gossip Men
J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation
Christopher M. Elias
Gossip Men reveals how three infamous figures—J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn— used tabloid techniques to redraw the lines of power in midcentury America.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones
23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82393-5
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Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors
Religion and the History of the CIA
Michael Graziano
Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA.
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 2 line drawings
24 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82943-2
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Foxconned
Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, and the Sacking of Local Government
Lawrence Tabak
Powerful and resonant, Foxconned is both the definitive autopsy of the Foxconn fiasco and a dire warning to communities and states nationwide.
2022 280 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables
25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82405-5
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War and American Life
Reflections on Those Who Serve and Sacrifice
James Wright
An engaging collection of essays focusing on American veterans.
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2022 264 p. 6 x 9
26 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-68458-099-6
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The World Is Our Stage
The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War
Allison M. Prasch
A fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel.
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones
27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82366-9
$32.50 Your Price: $22.75
The Lavender Scare
The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
David K. Johnson
A new edition of a classic work of history, revealing the anti-homosexual purges of midcentury Washington.
2023 322 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones
28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82572-4
$27.50 Your Price: $19.25
City of Dignity
Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los Angeles
Sean T. Dempsey
City of Dignity illuminates how liberal Protestants quietly, yet indelibly, shaped the progressive ethics of postwar Los Angeles.
Historical Studies of Urban America
2022 224 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones
29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82376-8
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Making Mexican Chicago
From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
Mike Amezcua
An exploration of how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance. Historical Studies of Urban America
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones
30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82640-0
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Nonprofit Neighborhoods
An Urban History of Inequality and the American State
Claire Dunning
An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector.
Historical Studies of Urban America
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones
31 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81989-1
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Pushing Cool Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
Keith
WailooSpanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted—and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day.
2021 392 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones
32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79413-6
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Deep South
A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class
Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, and Mary R. Gardner
A classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.
2022 328 p. 6 x 9 13 line drawings, 5 tables
33 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81798-9
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The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism
The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment
Antti Lepistö
A new look at contemporary rightwing rhetoric that locates its roots in the Scottish Enlightenment.
2021 288 p. 6 x 9
34 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77404-6
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Changing Their Minds?
Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership
George C. Edwards III
While President Trump and his policies have faced many opponents, none has been greater than Trump himself.
2021 376 p. 6 x 9 3 line drawings, 74 tables
35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77581-4
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None of Your Damn Business
Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Lawrence Cappello
Capello investigates why we’ve been so blithe about giving up our privacy and all the opportunities we’ve had along the way to rein it in.
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
36 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81995-2
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A Righteous Smokescreen
Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization
Sam Lebovic
An examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of “the free flow of information” into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences.
2022 272 p. 6 x 9
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When Freedom Speaks
The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right
Lynn Greenky
This book makes first amendment issues immediate and contemporary.
Brandeis Series in Law and Society
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2022 248 p. 6 x 9
38 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-093-4
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Restricted Data The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
Alex Wellerstein
The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present.
2021 528 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables
39 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02038-9
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The Delight Makers
Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness
Catherine L. Albanese
An ambitious history of desire in American religion across three centuries.
2023 384 p. 6 x 9
40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82354-6
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Jewish Identities in the American West Relational
Perspectives
Edited
by Ellen EisenbergJewish Identities in the American West fills a significant gap in racial identity scholarship.
Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2022 400 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 8 tables
41 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-128-3 $40.00
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No Place of Grace
Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
T. J. Jackson Lears
A new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century.
2021 408 p. 6 x 9
42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79444-0
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Awkward Rituals
Sensations of Governance in Protestant America
Dana W. Logan
A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual.
Class 200: New Studies in Religion
2022 192 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81850-4
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Tales of the Earth
Native North American Creation Mythology
David Leeming
A revealing analysis of key themes in Native American origin myths—and their stark contrast with the exceptionalist values of the United States.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2021 180 p. 61/4 x 81/4 47 color plates, 13 halftones
44 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-499-4 $25.00
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The View from Somewhere
Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
Lewis Raven Wallace
A look at the history of the idea of the objective journalist and how this very ideal can often be used to undercut itself.
2023 240 p. 6 x 9
45 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82658-5
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Easy Money
American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency
Dror Goldberg
A sweeping history of the American invention of modern money.
Markets and Governments in Economic History
2023 360 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones, 14 line drawings, 1 table
46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82510-6
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Bankers in the Ivory Tower
The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education
Charlie Eaton
Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America.
2022 232 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 2 tables
47 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72042-5
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Invested
How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds
Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Helen Paul, and James Taylor
Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals.
2023 368 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones
48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82100-9
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Touchy Subject
The History and Philosophy of Sex Education
Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen
A case for sex education that puts it in historical and philosophical context.
History and Philosophy of Education Series
2022 240 p. 6 x 9
49 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82218-1
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Educating the Enemy
Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands
Jonna Perrillo
Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists in Texas with the educational disadvantages faced by Mexican American students living in the same city.
2022 224 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones
50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81597-8
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Other People’s Colleges
The Origins of American Higher Education Reform
Ethan W. Ris
An illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education.
2022 368 p. 6 x 9
51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82022-4
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A Great and Rising Nation
Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic
Michael A. Verney
A Great and Rising Nation illuminates the unexplored early decades of the United States’ imperialist naval aspirations.
American Beginnings, 1500-1900
2022 320 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones
52 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81992-1
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Trading Freedom
How Trade with China Defined Early America
Dael A. Norwood
Trading Freedom explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic.
American Beginnings, 1500-1900
2022 312 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones, 2 line drawings
53 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81558-9
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Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918
Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck
An enriching examination of civil rights legislation from the end of the Civil War through Reconstruction. 2021 320 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, 10 tables
54 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75636-3
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American Mediterraneans
A Study in Geography, History, and Race
Susan Gillman
The story of the “American Mediterranean,” both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s.
2022 208 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones
55 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81966-2
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American Exceptionalism
A New History of an Old Idea
Ian Tyrrell
A powerful dissection of a core American myth.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9
56 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81209-0
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Crap A History of Cheap Stuff in America
Wendy A. Woloson
Crap is not necessarily crappy: the cheap crap that makes up our lives is surprisingly insightful, offering a new way to understand ourselves— our values and our desires in the American capitalist culture.
2022 416 p. 6 x 9 11 color plates, 105 halftones
57 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82407-9
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The People’s Porn A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Lisa Z. Sigel
The People’s Porn challenges preconceptions as it tells a new and fascinating story about American sexual history.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2023 280 p. 61/4 x 81/4 97 halftones
58 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-755-1 $40.00
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Pulp Empire
The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism
Paul S. Hirsch
Uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government used comic books as propaganda tools to help wage World War II and the Cold War.
2021 344 p. 6 x 9 44 color plates, 6 halftones
59 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35055-4
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Magazines and the American Experience
Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D.
Steven Lomazow
A gorgeously illustrated tour of several centuries of American magazine history.
Distributed for The Grolier Club
2021 325 p. 81/2 x 11 435 color plates
60 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60583-091-9
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A History of America in 100 Maps
Susan Schulten
In this book Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age.
2018 256 p. 81/2 x 11 120 color plates
61 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-45861-8
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Bulls Markets
Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality
Sean Dinces
An unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that reshaped contemporary Chicago—arguably for the worse.
Historical Studies of Urban America
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 46 halftones, 25 tables
62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82102-3
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A Fan’s Life
The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat
Paul Campos
A lifelong sports fanatic plumbs the depths of the fan mindset, tracking the mania from the gridiron to the national political stage and beyond.
2022 208 p. 6 x 9
63 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82348-5
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Dr. Nurse
Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing
Dominique A. Tobbell
An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II.
2022 320 p. 6 x 9
64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82290-7
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How the Clinic Made Gender
The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
Sandra Eder
An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history.
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones
65 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81993-8
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The Doctor Who Wasn’t There
Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth
Jeremy A. Greene
This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones
66 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80089-9
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The Science of Reading
Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
Adrian Johns
For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.
2023 504 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones
67 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82148-1 $32.50
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Audubon at Sea
The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James
Audubon
Edited by Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King
This one-of-a-kind, lavishly illustrated anthology celebrates Audubon’s connection to the sea through both his words and art.
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates,
38 halftones
68 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75667-7
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The Nature of the Future
Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North Emily Pawley
The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US.
2022 312 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones
69 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82002-6
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British Dandies
Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation
Dominic Janes
Reveals how the scandalous history of fashionable men and their clothes is a reflection of changing attitudes to style, gender, and sexuality.
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The Forms of Nameless Things
Experimental Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot
Geoffrey BatchenThis collection features twenty-four of Fox Talbot’s most experimental photographs.
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2023 80 p. 91/4 x 101/4 32 color plates
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The English Actor
From Medieval to Modern
Peter Ackroyd
From a leading historian and writer, a delightful exploration of the great English tradition of treading the boards.
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2023 400 p. 61/4 x 91/4
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The Worm in the Apple
A History of the Conservative Party and Europe from Churchill to Cameron
Christopher Tugendhat
The first extensive history of the relationship between the UK Conservative Party and the European Union.
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2022 256 p. 6 x 9
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Labour’s Civil Wars
How Infighting Keeps the Left from Power (and What Can Be Done about It)
Patrick Diamond and Giles Radice
A compelling chronicle of the Labour Party’s perpetual internal divisions.
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2023 360 p. 5 x 73/4
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Regicide
The Trials of Henry Marten
John Worthen
An illuminating biography of a republican convicted of regicide, drawing on the letters he wrote from within the Tower of London.
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Pet Revolution
Animals and the Making of Modern British Life
Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange
A history of pets and their companions in Britain from the Victorians to today.
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2023 256 p. 61/4 x 91/4 43 halftones
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Outrageous!
The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
Paul Baker
Now in paperback, a personal and impassioned history of the infamous Section 28, the 1988 UK law banning the teaching “of the acceptability of homosexuality.”
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2023 328 p. 5 x 73/4 35 halftones
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Welsh Food Stories
Carwyn Graves
A culinary travelogue across Wales.
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2022 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 color plates, 10 halftones
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The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain
From the First Photographs to David Beckham
Paul R. Deslandes
A heavily illustrated history of two centuries of male beauty in British culture.
2021 432 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 104 halftones
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The Secret History of English Spas
Melanie King
An informative social and cultural history of the English craze for drinking and bathing in spa waters.
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2021 232 p. 61/4 x 91/4 70 color plates
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The Punishment of Pirates
Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire
Matthew Norton
An exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy that balances a sociological investigation into maritime state power with epic storytelling.
2022 240 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 table
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Shadowland
The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners
Sarah Colvin
A history of modern Germany told not through the lives of its leaders, but its lawbreakers.
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The Last Consolation Vanished
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Zalmen Gradowski
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2022 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones
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A Month at the Front
The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Unknown Soldier
An authentic account of life in the trenches, written by an anonymous World War I soldier.
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Hitler’s Tyranny A History in Ten Chapters
Ralf Georg Reuth
A fresh, stimulating look at Adolf Hitler and his dictatorship throughout the study of ten key aspects.
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2022 256 p. 6 x 9
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D-Day Through French Eyes
Normandy 1944
Mary Louise Roberts
A gripping account of what it was like to be in the midst of the Norman Invasion on D-Day and immediately afterward.
2022 240 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 2 line drawings
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Defying Hitler
The White Rose Pamphlets
Alexandra Lloyd
New translations of the White Rose pamphlets, the anti-Nazi writings distributed by University of Munich students.
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2022 160 p. 5 x 73/4 19 halftones
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Rus–Ukraine–Russia
Scenes from the Cultural History of Russian Religiosity
Martin C. Putna
Václav Havel Series
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2021 350 p. 5 x 8 20 halftones, 3 maps
88 Paper ISBN: 978-80-246-3580-4
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A Short History of Finland
Jonathan Clements
A fascinating history of Finland from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century.
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2023 192 p. 5 x 8
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Bismarck
The Iron Chancellor
Volker Ullrich
An accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s first chancellor.
Life & Times
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2022 196 p. 5 x 8 40 halftones
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Tito
Neil Barnett
A biography of the charismatic and controversial Yugoslavian leader
Josip Broz Tito.
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2022 192 p. 5 x 8 32 halftones, 1 map
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Staging the Table in Europe
1500-1800
Deborah L. Krohn
A first of its kind exploration of early modern European culinary history.
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2023 200 p. 10 x 71/2 110 line drawings
92 Paper ISBN: 978-1-941792-36-0
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Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma
Two Hundred Years of British–
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David Owen
A history of relations between Britain and Russia from the nineteenth century to the present.
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2023 360 p. 5 x 8 2 maps
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The Naked Truth
Viennese Modernism and the Body
Alys X. George
Uncovers the interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped Viennese modernism and offers a new interpretation of this moment in the history of the West.
2022 328 p. 6 x 9 43 halftones
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Seeing Race Before Race
Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World
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Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world.
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2023 300 p. 9 x 12 25 color plates, 50 halftones
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Incomparable Realms
Spain during the Golden Age, 1500–1700
Jeremy Robbins
A sumptuous history of Golden Age Spain that explores the irresistible tension between heavenly and earthly realms.
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2022 464 p. 61/4 x 91/4 39 color plates, 31 halftones
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Dinner in Rome A History of the World in One Meal
Andreas Viestad
With a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world—served one dish at a time. Now in paperback.
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2022 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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Napoleon at Peace How to End a Revolution
William Doyle
A cogent, comprehensive, and sweeping account of Napoleon’s dismantling of the French Revolution, giving new insight into this critical period of French history.
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2022 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 halftones
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Navigations
The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance
Malyn NewittA critical reassessment of worldshaping Portuguese voyages of discovery that places these quests in historical context.
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2023 368 p. 61/4 x 91/4 20 color plates, 37 halftones
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Disalienation
Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France
Camille Robcis
A transnational history of institutional psychotherapy from its origins in France through its various transformations between 1945 and 1975.
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
2021 240 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones
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To Live Is to Resist
The Life of Antonio Gramsci
Jean-Yves Frétigné
This in-depth biography of Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci casts new light on his life and writing, emphasizing his unflagging spirit, even in the many years he spent in prison.
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The Dream of Absolutism
Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity Hall Bjørnstad
The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV.
2021 256 p. 6 x 9
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‘Race Is Everything’
Art and Human Difference
David Bindman
A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism.
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2023 320 p. 61/4 x 91/4 11 color plates, 99 halftones
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North Sea Crossings
The Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Relations 1066–1688
Sjoerd Levelt and Ad Putter
Sheds light on the literature and art of a pivotal period in history by exploring the cultural relationship between England and the Dutch Low Countries.
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The Return of Resentment
The Rise and Decline and Rise
Again of a Political Emotion
Robert A. Schneider
Charts the long history of resentment, from its emergence to its establishment as the word of the moment.
The Life of Ideas
2023 312 p. 6 x 9
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The Nutmeg’s Curse
Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Amitav Ghosh
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.
2021 336 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
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Gas Mask Nation
Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Gennifer Weisenfeld
A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II.
2023 408 p. 7 x 10 83 color plates, 102 halftones
107 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81644-9
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Nuclear Minds
Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ran Zwigenberg
How researchers understood the atomic bomb’s effects on the human psyche before the recognition of PostTraumatic Stress Disorder.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
108 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82676-9
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Designing Modern Japan
Sarah Teasley
A revealing look at Japanese design weaving together the stories of people who shaped Japan’s design industries with social history, economic conditions, and geopolitics.
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2022 424 p. 63/4 x 83/4 75 color plates, 70 halftones
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A Short History of Beijing
Jonathan Clements
A guide to the history of China’s capital, from before its rise to prominence as the seat of empires to the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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2022 208 p. 5 x 8 1 map
110 Paper ISBN: 978-1-913368-46-3
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Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty
The History and Legacy of Ancient India’s Greatest Empire
Colleen Taylor Sen
An illuminating history of the ancient Maurya Empire and its great leader Ashoka.
Dynasties
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2022 296 p. 61/4 x 91/4 20 color plates, 42 halftones
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Carbon Technocracy
Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Victor Seow
A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
376 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones
112 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82655-4
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Plowshares into Swords
Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations
David Ekbladh
An in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order.
2022 320 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones
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Undesirable
Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952
Jennifer Anne Boittin
Archival research into policing and surveillance of migrant women illuminates pressing contemporary issues.
2022 288 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones
114 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82225-9
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Hijrah
In the Footsteps of the Prophet
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by Idries TrevathanA unique retelling of the famous Hijrah story through the landscape and previously unseen artifacts from collections around Saudi Arabia.
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2022 240 p. 91/2 x 113/4 167 color plates
115 Cloth ISBN: 978-3-7774-3996-9
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Waves Across the South
A New History of Revolution and Empire
Sujit SivasundaramWaves Across the South offers a fresh history of revolution and empire which centers island nations and ocean-facing communities.
2021 496 p. 6 x 9 58 halftones,
7 line drawings
116 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79041-1
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Raising the Living Dead
Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
Alberto Ortiz Díaz
An eye-opening look at how incarcerated people, health professionals, and others behind and beyond bars came together to problem-solve incarceration.
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones
117 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82451-2
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Mario Daniels and John Krige
