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2 European History1-773-702-7000The Nazi, the Painterand the ForgottenStory of the SS RoadG. H. BennettEve in OverallsWomen at Work in the SecondWorld WarArthur WautersFirst published in 1942, Eve inOveralls was written to highlightthe huge contributions womenwere making to the war effort inBritain. Surprising and occasionally shocking, this entertaining facsimile reproduction reflects a timewhen women in the workplace werestill unusual, viewed with curiosity and fascination. It provides aneye-opening insight into the dedicated and hardworking women whohelped win the war and the challenges they faced.Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group2017 64 p. 41/4 x 6 3/4 42 halftones15 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904897-35-4 15.00Your Price: 6.00A Time To FightLiving and Remembering WWIIRobert Anderson“Anderson has embarked on anincredible project of commemoration, photographing living historyactors alongside WWII veterans.From those who landed on theshores of Normandy, to those whofought on the Home Front, thestories of their individual war experiences come to life through theirportraits and memories.”—DailyExpressDistributed for Unicorn Publishing Group2019 144 p. 73/4 x 73/4 130 color plates,20 halftones16 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-911604-93-8 22.95Your Price: 7.00The Great Cat andDog MassacreThe Real Story of World War Two’sUnknown TragedyHilda Kean“Kean’s book brings to light anuncomfortable chapter in Britishhistory.”—Wall Street Journal“Beginning with the massslaughter of household pets immediately after Britain’s declarationof war on Germany in 1939, Kean’scompelling account explores thevaried ways in which domesticatedanimals experienced the HomeFront. . . . Kean offers a fresh perspective on what has often beencalled the ‘People’s War.’”—HarrietRitvo, author of Noble Cows andHybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals andHistory2017 248 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-31832-5 99.00Your Price: 9.00“An engaging book, which shouldbe welcomed for shedding light ona little-known chapter of the widerHolocaust.”—BBC History Magazine“This surprising and artfulbook mixes the history of the Nazioccupation of Ukraine and of theHolocaust with present perspectives. It entertains and enriches ourunderstanding of a terrible time.”—Richard Breitman, author ofThe Architect of Genocide: Himmlerand the Final SolutionDistributed for Reaktion Books2012 240 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 27 halftones18 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-909-5 29.00Your Price: 9.00Jews in Nazi BerlinFrom Kristallnacht to LiberationEdited by Beate Meyer, HermannSimon, and Chana Schütz“The book’s team of editors, historians, and researchers succeededwith a great number of photographsto restore some features of wartimeBerlin and its Jewish community ina frank and direct manner, addinganother important volume to ourgrowing Holocaust library.”—Jerusalem Post“An amazing volume of factsand personal accounts. . . .Accompanying these accounts ofdestruction is a stunning collectionof photos and documents.”—Publishers WeeklyThe Heroic CityParis, 1945–1958Rosemary Wakeman“[A] very far ranging and charmingbook about imagined, poetic Paris,but also about everyday Paris, asthe city moved from left to right,from penury to consumerism, fromStalinist Communism to Debord’sSituationism, and from historicalParis to Paris as it is today, thecapital of world nostalgia.”—PatriceHigonnet, Harvard University2009 416 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-87023-6 49.00Your Price: 10.00WWIIA Chronicle of SoldieringJames Jones“Even now, after a perpetuallysurging Noah’s flood of ‘Good War’literature, WWII stands out as oneof the most vivid documents everproduced on how the war lookedand felt to those who experienced itfirsthand. . . . Readers will discoverunexpected, alarming, dazzling, orhorrifying observations on everypage.”—Wall Street Journal“An expert, eloquent personalremembrance of battles past, whatit felt like to live each day as possibly one’s last, what it felt like togo into battle, and finally what itfelt like to get hit . . . written by oneof the best combat novelists of ourtime.”—San Francisco Chronicle2014 240 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 3 maps,1 line drawing23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18093-9 17.00Your Price: 7.002009 416 p. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 50 color plates,138 halftones, 6 tables19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52157-2 40.00Your Price: 13.00Flashpoint TriesteSecrets of Churchill’sWar RoomsThis is the inside story of howTrieste found itself poised on aknife edge at the end of World WarII. Situated near the boundaries ofItaly, Austria, and Yugoslavia, thispivotal port city was caught in May1945 between advancing Allied,Russian, and Yugoslav armies.Told through the stories of twelvemen and women from seven different countries, Flashpoint Triestechronicles, on a human scale, thebeginning of the Cold War.Compact EditionJonathan Asbury“Provides fascinating details of lifein this top-secret, subterraneanspace.”—Atlas Obscura“Asbury reveals the behind-thescenes secrets of Churchill’s WarRooms—sights that members of thepublic can’t experience on a tour ofthe bunker. Containing more than150 photographs and details fromonce-top secret documents, thebook offers a close-up look at itemsthat have until now been seen byonly a few people in the world.”—BBC History ExtraDistributed for Unicorn Publishing Group2020 208 p. 7 x 7 107 color plates, 26 halftones20 Paper ISBN: 978-1-912423-14-9 22.95Your Price: 11.00ChurchillFlip BookEdited by the Imperial War MuseumsThis book presents little-knownfootage of Churchill inspecting troops from New Zealand inSeptember 1940, rendered as a miniature flipbook. Sure to entertainChurchill’s many fans, this flipbookalso serves as the perfect introduction to his mystique.Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group2016 80 p. 4 x 2 1/2 illustrated throughout21 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904897-67-5 8.95Your Price: 4.50The First Battle of the Cold WarChristian JenningsDistributed for ForeEdge2017 302 p. 6 x 924 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5126-0172-5 29.95Your Price: 9.00RommelThe End of a LegendRalf Georg ReuthReuth unveils the real Rommel,stripping away the layers of propaganda created by both the Nazisand Allies for their own politicalends. He portrays a Rommel contrary to the post-war myth—a manwho remained loyal to the Führeruntil forced to commit suicide.“Reuth reveals the truth in a brilliant book.”—IndependentDistributed for Haus Publishing2009 235 p. 6 x 925 Paper ISBN: 978-1-905791-95-8 14.95Your Price: 8.00

press.uchicago.edu/directmailBritish and European History 3Imperial CityLondon“A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied erain the history of Rome.”—Journal ofModern History“[Imperial City] is meticulouslyresearched, drawing on a host oforiginal manuscripts, memoirs,personal letters, and secondarysources, enabling [Nicassio] tobring her story to life. . . . Probablythe best work on the topic inprint.”—History Today“Nurse’s glorious book is dividedinto convenient sections, illustrating maps and scenes of the City,Westminster, the Thames, andLondon’s fashionable environs. . . .Each illustration is furnished witha useful commentary.  Lavishlyillustrated with full page reproduction.”—Brian Green, The DulwichSociety“A unique pictorial history ofGeorgian London that is visuallyrich, historically fascinating and ofinterest to Londoners and visitorsalike.”—Fine Books NotesBurned AliveDistributed for Bodleian Library“Martínez offers an interestingand provocative reassessment ofthe relation between the condemnation of Giordano Bruno, whowas burned at the stake, and themilder one that was meted out toGalileo.”—William R. Shea, authorof Galileo Observed: Science and thePolitics of Belief“An innovative study linkingBruno’s and Galileo’s trials by theInquisition, this book offers animpressively documented analysisof the ‘Pythagorean’ aspects oftheir thought, and their heretical implications for the Catholictheologians.”—Hilary Gatti, authorof Ideas of Liberty in Early ModernEurope: from Machiavelli to MiltonPartitionRome under NapoleonSusan Vandiver Nicassio2009 256 p. 6 x 9 1/4 54 halftones, 3 maps26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57973-3 19.00Your Price: 7.00Bruno, Galileo and the InquisitionAlberto A. MartínezDistributed for Reaktion Books2018 304 p. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 21 halftones27 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-896-8 40.00Your Price: 12.00Engineering theRevolutionArms and Enlightenment in France,1763–1815Ken Alder“This richly textured, heavily documented, and fluently written studycenters on the attempt by Frenchmilitary engineers to apply engineering rationality to the reorganization of mass warfare.”—Isis“A fine work, grounded inresearch. . . . Alder has forcefullydemonstrated the role of engineersin fostering social change in theeighteenth-century and revolutionary eras.”—American Historical Review2010 496 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones, 3 maps28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-01264-3 34.00Your Price: 9.00Edge of EmpiresA History of GeorgiaDonald Rayfield“The most comprehensive andup-to-date history of Georgiaavailable in English. This tour deforce explains why the small southCaucasus nation looks longingly tothe west. A work of consummateerudition from Britain’s foremostexpert on Georgian history and literature.”—Financial TimesDistributed for Reaktion Books2012 479 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones29 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-030-6 55.00Your Price: 15.00Prints & Drawings before 1800Bernard Nurse2017 232 p. 11 x 9 1/3 123 color plates30 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-412-6 50.00Your Price: 19.00How and Why Ireland was DividedIvan Gibbons“A must-read to understand why theIrish border continues to cast sucha jagged shadow over the islandof Ireland, from party politicsto implementing Brexit.”—PeterHain, former Secretary of State forNorthern Ireland“An excellent exposition of howthe border came into existence.Gibbons’s is a short, very readableand clear overview.”—Times LiterarySupplementDistributed for Haus Publishing2021 172 p. 51/2 x 8 1/2 1 map31 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-913368-01-2 22.95Your Price: 9.00A Very Queer FamilyIndeedSex, Religion, and the Bensons inVictorian BritainSimon Goldhill“Child brides, cousin marriage,generational antagonisms, polyamory, lesbianism, homosexuality,all served with heavy dollops ofgraphomania and religious fervor—what could be more Victorian?As this magnificent account ofthe Benson family in the yearsbetween 1850 and 1940 shows, forthe Victorians, nothing was morenormal—or more agonizing—thanqueerness.”—Sharon Marcus,author of Between Women2016 344 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39378-0 35.00Your Price: 11.00Pain and RetributionA Short History of British Prisons1066 to the PresentDavid Wilson“Wilson writes powerfully andaffectingly about the continuingrole of the prison as a primary siteof state-sanctioned violence.”—TimesHigher Education“Criminologist and prisonreformer Wilson has written a fascinating, multisided view of prisonsas they have developed over thecenturies, including the Tower ofLondon, Newgate, and Millbankand their successors.”—ChoiceDistributed for Reaktion Books2014 240 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones33 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-283-6 35.00Your Price: 9.00No. 10The Geography of Power atDowning StreetJack Brown“Brimming with illuminatingaccounts of the tenures of the postwar prime ministers through 1997,the book offers a comprehensiveview of the history of the building,the functional roles of its differentrooms, and most interestingly, theinterplay between the geography ofthe building and the personalitiesof each of the prime ministers.”—ChoiceDistributed for Haus Publishing2019 400 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones34 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-912208-01-2 27.95Your Price: 9.00The Curious World ofDickensClive Hurst and Violet Moller“Shows how integral Dickens’severyday world was to the creationof his texts. . . . An interesting andtactile look at the intersectionsbetween Dickens’s literary worldand the everyday world in which helived.”—Victorian Periodical ReviewDistributed for Bodleian Library2013 108 p. 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 95 color plates35 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-384-6 27.50Your Price: 9.00Dandyism in the Ageof RevolutionThe Art of the CutElizabeth Amann“Sweeps aside received notions ofthe dandy as a disengaged fop torecover the figure’s political andpoliticized origins.”—Laura Mason,Johns Hopkins University2015 288 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones36 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18725-9 48.00Your Price: 13.00Oscar Wilde PrefiguredQueer Fashioning and BritishCaricature, 1750–1900Dominic Janes“[Decenters] Wilde in order toexamine the culture that createdhim and the almost forgotten literary scene of 1890s writers whowanted to be him. Oscar WildePrefigured is—to quote its authorelsewhere—a ‘power romp’ throughthe image of the queer manbetween 1750 and 1895, when Wildewas imprisoned.”—Times LiterarySupplement2016 288 p. 6 x 9 63 halftones37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35864-2 43.00Your Price: 13.00

4 American History1-773-702-7000Freedom’s BallotAfrican American PoliticalStruggles in Chicago from Abolitionto the Great MigrationMargaret GarbRum ManiacsAlcoholic Insanity in the EarlyAmerican RepublicMatthew Warner Osborn“Osborn’s path-breaking bookexplains the largely ignoredphysician-based temperance movement in Philadelphia from 1820 to1850. . . . The author demonstratesthat rising alcohol consumption,along with a concomitant rise indelirium tremens, coincided witha need to rethink the very meaningof medicine in Philadelphia duringthese years.”—William Rorabaugh,University of Washington2014 280 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 1 table38 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09989-7 52.00Your Price: 12.00We Have Not aGovernmentThe Articles of Confederation andthe Road to the ConstitutionGeorge William Van Cleve“Instead of asking how theConstitution came to be adopted,Van Cleve asks why the previous government, the Articles ofConfederation, failed—and why itfailed not only in our own moderneyes, but in the eyes of its contemporaries. Pairing an enormousamount of scrupulous researchwith the unique perspective of alegal scholar, Van Cleve bridges thedivide between scholarship andthe curious reader. He writes withsmooth, powerful, unobtrusivebeauty.”—Daniel Walker Howe,author of What Hath God Wrought2019 400 p. 6 x 9 3 tables39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64152-2 20.00Your Price: 8.00Frontier SeaportDetroit’s Transformation into anAtlantic EntrepôtCatherine Cangany“Frontier Seaport tells the story ofDetroit’s evolution from an isolated fur trading post to an inlandseaport that dominated commerceon the upper Great Lakes. . . . Thenative and colonial peoples ofDetroit persistently defied imperial pretensions to sovereigntyover them. Cangany’s skillfulreconstruction of their economic,social, and political lives forces usto reconsider what it meant to liveon a colonial borderland in earlyAmerica.”—Timothy J. Shannon,Gettysburg College2014 288 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables40 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-09670-4 52.00Your Price: 12.00“In this fascinating and originalstudy, Margaret Garb traces the riseof Black politics in Chicago fromits mid-nineteenth-century originsto the early twentieth century.The book is a signal contributionto our understanding of the longcivil rights movement on northern soil.”—Eric Foner, ColumbiaUniversity“[This is] that rare book thatadds something new to our nationalconversation about race, cities andAmerica, for scholars and generalreaders alike.”—Chicago Tribune2014 304 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 4 maps41 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13590-8 58.00Your Price: 13.00SlaughterhouseChicago’s Union Stock Yard and theWorld It MadeDominic A. Pacyga“An illuminating history of thisChicago industry long vital to thecity and the nation.”—Wall StreetJournal“In Pacyga’s capable hands,the arc of the stockyards mirrorsChicago’s—a model of the IndustrialRevolution that fell on hard timesin the late twentieth century and isnow reinventing itself. His writingis as streamlined and efficient asthe disassembly lines that inspiredthe book.”—Chicago Tribune2015 256 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones42 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-12309-7 28.00Your Price: 9.00Blood Runs GreenThe Murder That Transfixed GildedAge ChicagoGillian O’Brien“O’Brien’s meticulously researchedbook makes the case that one man’sbrutal murder in 1889 Chicago (andthe subsequent criminal investigation) had a ripple effect in bothAmerica and Britain on the contentious cause of Irish republicanism. . . This is academic writing at itsmost accessible.”—New York Times2016 317 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-37999-9 20.00Your Price: 6.00Rising Up from IndianCountryThe Battle of Fort Dearbornand the Birth of ChicagoAnn Durkin Keating“[An] informative, ambitiousaccount. . . . Keating’s wellresearched book rights some misconceptions about the old conflicts,the strategies of the whites andIndians to keep their land, and howearly Chicago came to exist.”—Publishers Weekly“Opens up a fascinating vistaof lost American history. . . . It’s agreat story, and Keating’s neutral,unemphatic prose makes it registerall the more clearly.”—Wall StreetJournal2012 320 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones, 14 maps44 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42896-3 30.00Your Price: 10.00The Work Ethic inIndustrial America1850–1920Second EditionDaniel T. Rodgers“The Work Ethic in IndustrialAmerica is a brilliant and morallyacute examination of the rhetoricof work in the United States. . . .Written just before intellectualand social history separated anddiverged, this edition comes whenthese fields are reconvening. Whata wonderful model it offers forfuture work!”—Thomas Bender,New York University2014 336 p. 51/2 x 8 1/245 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13623-3 29.00Your Price: 8.00Newsprint MetropolisCity Papers and the Making ofModern AmericansJulia Guarneri“Newsprint Metropolis is a splendid study of big city daily andSunday newspapers at the dawn ofthe twentieth century. Guarneriexplores the marvelously diverseuniverse of newspaper content andinfluence. . . . And she persuasivelysupports a bold claim: that newspapers were not just chroniclersbut were creators of the modernAmerican city.”—David Paul Nord,Indiana University2017 368 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 59 halftones46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-34133-0 48.00Your Price: 13.00Plundered Skulls andStolen SpiritsInside the Fight to Reclaim NativeAmerica’s CultureChip Colwell“A careful and intelligent chronicleof the battle over Indian artifactsand the study of Indian culture.”—Wall Street Journal“A lightly written, insider’saccount of the battle over humanremains and objects in museums. . . As this book shows, the fight toreclaim Native America’s culturehas been waged, in significantparts, by professionals such asColwell.”—Spectator2017 360 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones47 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29899-3 30.00Your Price: 13.00Facing RacialRevolutionEyewitness Accounts of the HaitianInsurrectionJeremy D. Popkin“Popkin’s collection of first-personnarratives of the Haitian Revolutionis an extremely valuable work. . . He manages to tell a completeversion of the Revolution almostentirely in the words of the peoplewho experienced it.”—MadisonSmartt Bell, author of All Souls’Rising2008 416 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67583-1 19.00Your Price: 7.00

press.uchicago.edu/directmailBuffalo Bill in BolognaMy Dear Molly“This elegant synthesis of scholarship on U.S. mass culture from theCivil War through the 1920s shedsnew historical and interpretivelight on the modern period.”—Choice“Rydell and Kroes are interestedin the worldwide triumph of massAmerican culture. . . . With its several triumphant European tours,Cody’s Wild West, as he called theshow, was pivotal in this history.”—New York Review of Books“An unusually fine and valuablecollection of primary material. Itprovides insight into the early warsituation in Missouri and Kansas,the burdens of small-unit commandand administration, the areas inwhich the regiment served, CivilWar era courtship, and especiallyLove’s prison experiences.”—CivilWar NewsThe Americanization of the World,1869–1922Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes2012 224 p. 6 x 9 37 halftones49 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00712-0 28.00Your Price: 7.00Arthur VandenbergThe Man in the Middle of theAmerican CenturyHendrik Meijer“An engaging and thoroughaccount. . . . A first-rate chronicle.”—Wall Street Journal“Meijer’s engaging biographytraces Vandenberg’s evolution—from a young politician drawntoward isolationism, to a decisiveproponent of the United Nationsand an enduring American worldrole. Meijer has produced an affecting human portrait of a publicservant who came to symbolize thebipartisan pursuit of the nationalinterest and a more peacefulworld.”—Henry A. Kissinger2017 448 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43348-6 35.00Your Price: 10.00Home FrontDaily Life in the Civil War NorthPeter John Brownlee,Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon,Daniel Greene, and Scott ManningStevens“Framed by the era’s visual arts andburgeoning commercial visual culture, these essays offer an unusually imaginative and probing interdiscipli

Jan 21, 2022 · Great War The Last 100 Days Sarah Wearne “A work of heroic service for those who died heroically.”—Times Literary Supplement “From the inspiring to the har-rowing to the humdrum, the epi-taphs chosen remind us of the mil-lions of individual lives that were cut short.”—Daily