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THE GREAT CHICAGO BOOK SALE 2021 SAVE UP TO 9O% PRICES START AT $5 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS Contents European History 1 Picturing America The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps British History 3 Stephen J. Hornsby American History 4 "An underappreciated form of American visual art: the pictorial World History 7 map. They’re maps designed to draw you in and—as often as not—try Social History 9 to sell you something, whether it’s a tropical vacation, a brand of bour- Reference 10 bon, or a version of the American dream. [Picturing America] high- Food 10 lights an occasionally twisted, often amusing, always colorful tradition of Places & Travel 12 hand-drawn cartography." —National Geographic Cartography 14 “Beautifully illustrated. It includes the playful (distorted views of the country from the perspective of New Yorkers, Texans and Philosophy 15 Californians); the obscure (a map of volunteer fire departments in Philadelphia, circa 1792, commissioned and drawn in 1938); and more Ancient History 17 of the obscure (a map of Michigan bakeries).”—New York Times 2016 304 p. 81/2 x 11 153 color plates Religion 17 1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38604-1 $45.00 Your Price: $17.00 Architecture & Design 18 China Visions through the Ages Photography 19 Edited by Lisa C. Niziolek, Deborah A. Bekken and Gary M. Feinman Art 19 “This book—with its 225 plates—is cer- Media & Design 22 tainly gorgeous. It is also deeply learned. The editors curate the almost 30,000 Film, Sports, & Humor 23 objects in Chicago’s Field Museum, which holds agricultural remains dating Music 24 from earlier than 10,000 years BC, and precious treasures loved by emperors and Biography 26 learned connoisseurs.” —Times Higher Education Earth Sciences 27 “A multi-faceted and comprehensive guide to China’s past and how we view Nature & Gardens 28 it.”—Current Archaeology 2017 354 p. 81/2 x 11 225 color plates, 1 table Life Sciences 29 2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-38537-2 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00 History & Philosophy of Science 33 Art in Chicago Mathematics & Physical Sciences 34 A History from the Fire to Now Edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Law & Political Science 35 Cozzolino “The most comprehensive treat- Education & Social Sciences 36 ment of the topic to date. The book conspicuously lacks time- Economics 37 lines and keywords, avoiding the encyclopaedic approach of past Literature 38 efforts. At the heart of this new history is instead a compelling Literary Studies 39 story about how artistic identity is formed in the shadows. All Fiction, Poetry, & Literature at $7 40 of these topics are deeply covered in the book's excellent essays.” Children’s Books 41 —Art Newspaper 2018 448 p. 91/4 x 11 160 color plates, 29 halftones 20% Off Recent Books 42 3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-16831-9 $65.00 Your Price: $21.00 Cover image: Olenka Sergienko on Pexels ORDER INFORMATION Place your order online at press.uchicago.edu/directmail See the order form for details and more options. Sale ends June 15, 2021. Quantities are limited—order early! press.uchicago.edu/directmail European History 1 The First World War The Huns Have Got my Galleries Gramophone! Paul Cornish Advertisements from the Great War The First World War Galleries revisits Amanda Jane Doran and Andrew McCarthy this historic event on the occasion of the centenary of its onset, draw- This book collects some of the ing on the unparalleled archives of most original advertisements cre- the Imperial War Museum. Cornish ated between 1914 and 1918. The offers a carefully researched and advertisements reveal how advertis- compelling account of this cru- ers sought to create new markets cial period of world history, told for products that took into account through a stunning array of artifacts social change throughout the course from the museum's collections. of World War I. Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group “Cigarettes, gramophones, even 2014 224 p. 73/4 x 91/2 250 color plates 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904897-83-5 $50.00 guard dogs. There was nothing that The First World War Your Price: $15.00 the Great War didn't provide a good Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the excuse to buy.”—Atlantic Western Front 28 June Distributed for the Bodleian Library Edited by Carl De Keyzer and David 2014 112 p. 4 x 6 50 halftones Van Reybrouck Sarajevo 1914 - Versailles 1919: 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-399-0 $15.00 The War and Peace That Made the Your Price: $5.00 “The book is a collection of previ- Modern World ously unseen and restored WWI Edited by Alan Sharp The Habsburgs photographs of lesser-seen photo 28 June looks in greater depth at Dynasty, Culture and Politics subjects, such as training, African the smaller nations that are often Paula Sutter Fichtner colonial troops and postmortem ignored in general histories of WWI. portraits of Belgian soldiers.” “Fichtner has produced a lucid and —Chicago Tribune “A superb one-stop-shop book for succinct account of a complicated “The amount of detail that you the causes, influences on entry, and history, and a readable and persua- see in each [glass plate image] is diplomatic finale of the First World sive synthesis of recent research. stunning.”—Slate War.”—The Historian [Hers is] an argument that has the 2015 280 p. 91/2 x 123/4 20 color plates, Distributed for Haus Publishing great virtue of making coherent a 80 halftones 2014 412 p. 61/4 x 91/2 2 maps dynastic history that pursued a simi- 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28428-6 $65.00 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-75-0 $40.00 Your Price: $21.00 Your Price: $11.00 lar cultural agenda across the course of hundreds of years.” The Consequences of the —BBC History Magazine Arc of Utopia Distributed for Reaktion Books The Beautiful Story of the Russian Peace 2014 288 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones Revolution The Versailles Settlement: Aftermath 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-274-4 $39.00 Lesley Chamberlain and Legacy 1919-2015 Your Price: $12.00 “Chamberlain’s book broadens our Alan Sharp Terror and Toleration understanding of the roots of the “As a glance at the table of contents The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, Bolshevik Revolution, describing shows, there are always more and 1526-1850 how German Idealism, which first interesting things to be said on Paula Sutter Fichtner emerged from Immanuel Kant’s the perennially fascinating ques- reaction to the French Revolution, tion of the Paris Peace Conference. “Provides a good survey of early came to inspire philosophers Sadly, too, there is much that is modern Habsburg representations and cultural figures throughout still relevant for our own troubled of the ‘Turkish’ other and gives the nineteenth-century Europe and world.”—Margaret Macmillan reader a fascinating insight into Russia.”—New York Times Book Warden, author of Paris 1919 Habsburg anti-Ottoman propagan- Review Distributed for Haus Publishing da.”—Times Higher Education Distributed for Reaktion Books 2015 275 p. 5 x 73/4 4 maps Distributed for Reaktion Books 2017 256 p. 6 x 9 6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-92-7 $49.95 2008 256 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-852-4 $29.95 Your Price: $12.00 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-340-6 $45.00 Your Price: $10.00 Your Price: $13.00 The Makers of the Revolution! Modern World Secrets in a Dead Fish Sayings of Vladimir Lenin The Spying Game in the First World Edited by the Bodleian Library Complete 32-Volume Set War Edited by Alan Sharp Melanie King Revolution! is a compilation of Lenin’s most famous sayings, taken A 32-volume boxed set, The Makers A fascinating compendium of clever of the Modern World is a monumen- from speeches, lectures, letters, and and long-forgotten ruses, inter- recorded conversations. Together, tal look at all the signatories of the spersed with the stories of the spies Versailles treaty. they show his views on topics rang- themselves, Secrets in a Dead Fish ing from democracy to terrorism, “Makers of the Modern World is to sheds new light on the shadowy from religion to Stalin’s untrust- be welcomed because it is designed world of Great War espionage. worthiness, and from education to to provide concise biographies, “An engaging, small format, short music. around 200 pages long, of major book about espionage during World Distributed for the Bodleian Library politicians and intellectuals from all War I. In nine chapters with pleas- 2017 112 p. 63/4 x 71/2 50 color plates over the world. All of them are also ing illustrations . [King] seeks to 14 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-470-6 $17.50 Your Price: $7.00 put into the larger context of the age illustrate the tools and tradecraft of and the often momentous decisions espionage as practiced at the time.” that they were involved in.” —Military History —V.R. Berghahn, H-Diplo Distributed for the Bodleian Library Distributed for Haus Publishing 2014 128 p. 4 x 6 20 halftones Much more information about each book 7 Boxed Set ISBN: 978-1-907822-02-5 11 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-260-3 $15.00 is on our website at press.uchicago.edu. $595.00 Your Price: $119.00 Your Price: $5.00 To order online, see the order form. 2 European History 1-773-702-7000 Rommel Flashpoint Trieste The End of a Legend The First Battle of the Cold War Ralf Georg Reuth Christian Jennings Reuth unveils the real Rommel, This is the inside story of how stripping away the layers of propa- Trieste found itself poised on a ganda created by both the Nazis and knife edge at the end of World War Allies for their own political ends.