$2.99 e-book sale to celebrate the American Historical Association’s 130th annual meeting

For the month of January 2016, to coincide with the American Historical Association annual meeting January 7-10 in Atlanta, we have lowered the e-book list price of three titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99.

Cover for lichtman: Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia. Click for larger imageOrganized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia by Robert M. Lombardo
Looking beyond this Mafia paradigm, this volume argues that the development of organized crime in Chicago and other large American cities was rooted in the social structure of American society. Specifically, Lombardo ties organized crime to the emergence of machine politics in America’s urban centers. From nineteenth-century vice syndicates to the modern-day Outfit, Chicago’s criminal underworld could not have existed without the blessing of those who controlled municipal, county, and state government. These practices were not imported from Sicily, Lombardo contends, but were bred in the socially disorganized slums of America where elected officials routinely franchised vice and crime in exchange for money and votes. Buy the Kindle version here. Buy the Kobo version here. Buy the Google Play version here. Buy the Nook version here.

Cover for LUCANDER: Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946. Click for larger imageWinning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946 by David Lucander
Scholars regard the March on Washington Movement (MOWM) as a forerunner of the postwar Civil Rights movement. Led by the charismatic A. Philip Randolph, MOWM scored an early victory when it forced the Roosevelt administration to issue a landmark executive order that prohibited defense contractors from practicing racial discrimination. Lucander details the efforts of grassroots organizers to implement MOWM’s program of empowering African Americans via meetings and marches at defense plants and government buildings and, in particular, focuses on the contributions of women activists like Layle Lane, E. Pauline Myers, and Anna Arnold Hedgeman. Throughout he shows how local activities often diverged from policies laid out at MOWM’s national office, and how grassroots participants on both sides ignored the rivalry between Randolph and the leadership of the NAACP to align with one another on the ground. Buy the Kindle version here. Buy the Kobo version here. Buy the Google Play version here. Buy the Nook version here.

Cover for Jablonski: The Real Cyber War: The Political Economy of Internet Freedom. Click for larger image
The Real Cyber War: The Political Economy of Internet Freedom by Shawn M. Powers and Michael Jablonski
Discussions surrounding the role of the internet in society are dominated by terms such as internet freedom, surveillance, cybersecurity, and, most prolifically, cyber war. But behind the rhetoric of cyber war is an ongoing state-centered battle for control of information resources. Shawn Powers and Michael Jablonski conceptualize this real cyber war as the utilization of digital networks for geopolitical purposes, including covert attacks against another state’s electronic systems, but also, and more importantly, the variety of ways the internet is used to further a state’s economic and military agendas. Buy the Kindle version here. Buy the Kobo version here. Buy the Google Play version here. Buy the Nook version here.

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