Images - H. Belting: Likeness and Presence. A History of the Image before the Era of Art (Translated by E. Jephcott). Pp. xxiv+651, 295 black-and-white ills, 12 colour plates. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 1994 (First published in German in 1990). Cased, £51.95/$74.75.

1995 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-375
Author(s):  
John Elsner
Keyword(s):  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Black And White ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-130
Author(s):  
Andrew Barnfield ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
African City ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Economic Exchanges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Duke University ◽  
And Migration ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Being Lighter Than Air Derek P. McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 304 pp., 34 illustrations, $27.95 (paperback) Challenging Landscapes of Confinement Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn, Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists and Policy-makers (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), 352 pp. £81 (hardback). “Bottleneck” in Dakar: From Metaphor to Anthropological Analytical Tool Caroline Melly, Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in An African City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 224 pp., 11 halftones, $30 (paperback). Migratory Trajectories, Affective Attachments, and Sexual-Economic Exchanges Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez, eds., Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 248 pp., $120 (hardback). Engineering Nineteenth-Century Transport Innovations Maxwell Lay, The Harnessing of Power: How 19th Century Transport Innovators Transformed the Way the World Operates (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2018), 374 pp., £64.99 (hardback). The Politics of Mobility in Postcolonial Kenya Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 352 pp., 31 halftones, $30 (paperback). A Sense of What Commuting Takes David Bissell, Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), 272 pp., 6 illustrations, $32 (paperback). Vanishing Point? The City after the Car Venkat Sumantran, Charles Fine and David Gonsalvez, Faster, Smarter, Greener: Th e Future of the Car and Urban Mobility (Massachusetts: Th e MIT Press), 326 pp, $29.95 Troubling the “View from Above” Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), 298pp., 24 color plates. Hardcover: $77, Paper $25. Mobility, Mobilization, and Cooptation Claudio Sopranzetti, Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017), xiv + 328 pp., $85.00 (hardback), $29.95 (paperback). No Exit: The Persistent Legacies of Mobility Choices in Houston Kyle Shelton, Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017), 302 pp., 24 black-and-white illustrations, $29.95 (paperback)

Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-205
Author(s):  
Hilary Radner ◽  
Graham H. Roberts ◽  
Vanessa Jones ◽  
Graham H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Black And White ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press ◽  
History Of Los Angeles

Fashion Film: Art and Advertising in the Digital A ge, Nicholas Rees-Roberts (2018) London: Bloomsbury, xv+220 pp., ISBN 978-0-85785-666-1, hb/k, £63.00; pb/k, £20.69Street Fashion Moscow, Elena Siemens (2017) Bristol and Chicago: Intellect and The University of Chicago Press, 160 pp., 192, colour illustrations, ISBN 978-1-41578-320-1, h/bk, £64.50L.A. Chic: A Locational History of Los Angeles Fashion, Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner (2018) Bristol and Intellect and Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 234 pp., 81 black and white illustrations, ISBN 978-1-78320-934-7, pb/k, £34Transglobal Fashion Narratives: Clothing Communication, Style Statements and Brand Storytelling, Anne Peirson-Smith and Joseph H. Hancock II (eds) (2018) Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, vi + 363 pp., 50 b&w illustrations, 3 tables, ISBN 978-1-78320-844-9, h/bk, £83.00

John W. Boyer, The University of Chicago: A History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 676pp. ISBN: 9780226242514

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger L. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Learning ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Democratic Institution ◽  
American Universities ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

This chapter reviews the book The University of Chicago: A History (2015), by John W. Boyer. Founded in 1892, the University of Chicago is one of the world’s great institutions of higher learning. However, its past is also littered with myths, especially locally. Furthermore, the university has in significant ways been out of sync with the trends that have shaped other American universities. These issues and much else are examined by Boyer in the first modern history of the University of Chicago. Aside from rectifying myth, Boyer places the university in the broader history of American universities. He suggests that the early University of Chicago, in its combination of openness and quality, may have been the most democratic institution in American higher education. He also examines the reforms that overcame the chronic weaknesses that had plagued the university.

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