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  • The University of Chicago

    A History

    by John W. Boyer ...
    An expanded narrative of the rich, unique history of the University of Chicago.One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than one hundred and fifty countries, its impact is far-reaching and long ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The University of Chicago

    A History

    by John W. Boyer ...
    The essential history of one of the United States's most influential institutions of higher learning in the world.The University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With more than 170,000 alumni living and working in more than 150 countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting.In this indispensable volume, John W. Boyer, Dean ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Austria 1867-1955

    by John W. Boyer ...
    Series series Oxford History of Modern Europe
    Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building. The construction of an Austrian political nation began in 1867 under Habsburg Imperial ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Illiberal Reformers

    Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

    by Thomas C. Leonard ...
    The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American liberalismIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Social Justice Fallacies

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    **In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths that underpin the social justice movement“Light on rhetoric, seriously heavy on data, and accessible in style, there is a reason why Sowell has been described as ‘among the most brilliant thinkers in the world today’ by Harvard University’s Steven Pinker and an ‘American sage’ by the Wall Street ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Woman of Valor

    Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

    by Ellen Chesler ...
    This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more.Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Between Citizens and the State

    The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

    by Christopher P. Loss ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • White World Order, Black Power Politics

    The Birth of American International Relations

    by Robert Vitalis ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    **"Defying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice."**â• Carol Polsgrove â• American Historical ReviewRacism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A Nation of Neighborhoods

    Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America

    by Benjamin Looker ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood as both an endless problem and a possibility.Looker investigates the cultural, social, and political ... Read more

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  • Making a New Deal

    Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939

    by Lizabeth Cohen ...
    This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A&P. As they made daily decisions ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning

    by Thomas Neville Bonner ...
    Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), raised in Louisville, Kentucky in a family of poor Jewish immigrants from Germany, attended the Johns Hopkins University in the first decade of its existence. After graduating in 1886, he founded, four years before John Dewey’s Chicago “laboratory school,” a progressive experimental school in Louisville that won the attention of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • For the Common Good

    A New History of Higher Education in America

    by Charles Dorn ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community ... Read more

    $14.29 USD