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The Politics of Resentment / 1st edition

Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

2016 || Paperback || Katherine Cramer || The University of Chicago Press

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square, he was subsequently reelected. How could this happen? How is it that the very people who stand to benefit from strong government services not only vote against the candidates who support those...

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Prisoners of Shangri-La

Tibetan Buddhism and the West

2018 || Paperback || Donald S. Lopez Jr || The University of Chicago Press

To the Western imagination, Tibet evokes exoticism, mysticism, and wonder: a fabled land removed from the grinding onslaught of modernity, spiritually endowed with all that the West has lost. Originally published in 1998, Prisoners of Shangri-La provided the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Donald Lopez reveals here fanciful misconceptions of Tibetan life and religion.

He examines, among much else, the politics of the term "Lamaism," a pej...

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Thinking About History

2017 || Paperback || Sarah Maza || The University of Chicago Press

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view t...

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Where Research Begins

Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)

2022 || Paperback || Thomas S. Mullaney e.a. || The University of Chicago Press