University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
by Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs from Cato and Goethe, was found after her death....
Athene Palace
Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
On the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business opportunities in Romania, international spies cloaked...
by Edmund S. Morgan, Rosemarie Zagarri
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers’ political philosophy was not...
Nut Country
Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut country today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who...
Nixon's Court
His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon’s challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure—“a counterrevolution that wasn’t.” Nixon’s Court offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rhetoric was more conservative than his...
Latin America
The Allure and Power of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
“Latin America” is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America:...
National Duties
Custom Houses and the Making of the American State
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In the wake of the American Revolution, if you had asked a citizen whether his fledgling state would survive more than two centuries, the answer would have been far from confident. The problem, as is so often the case, was money. Left millions of dollars of debt by the war, the nascent federal government...
Building the American Republic, Volume 1
A Narrative History to 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing...
The Timeline of Presidential Elections
How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
In presidential elections, do voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own? Or is the race for president of the United States come down largely to who runs the most effective campaign? It’s a question those who study elections have been considering...
The Spirits and the Law
Vodou and Power in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits...
by William Bernhard, Tracy Sulkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one’s district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage with the media to cultivate a national reputation?...
Why Not Parties?
Party Effects in the United States Senate
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Recent research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as secondary considerations in a chamber that gives its members far more individual leverage than congressmen have....
Working Law
Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more so when you look at high-level positions. They also...
Liberty Power
Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage—but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most transformative...