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(1) A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism
Dayton Lekner
ISBN: 9781009600484

Cambridge University Press
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(2) African Literature in Transition: Intellectual Traditions of African Literature, 1960–2015
James Ogude; Neil ten Kortenaar
ISBN: 9781009622318

Cambridge University Press
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(3) Ancient Assyrians: Identity and Society in Antiquity and Beyond
Jonathan Valk
ISBN: 9781009610575

Cambridge University Press
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(4) Civil Religion and the Renewal of American Politics
Amy E. Black; Douglas L. Koopman
ISBN: 9781108178488

Cambridge University Press
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(5) Commodities and Literature
Sudesh Mishra; Caitlin Vandertop
ISBN: 9781009432320

Cambridge University Press
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(6) Convict Politics: From Utopia to Serfdom in Early China (221 BCE – 23 CE)
Liang Cai
ISBN: 9781009019866

Cambridge University Press
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(7) Crude Calculations: Regime Stability, Economic Liberalization, and the Energy Transition
Oliver McPherson-Smith
ISBN: 9781009580045

Cambridge University Press
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(8) Debating Papal History, c. 250–c. 1300: Responsive Government and the Medieval Papacy
D. L. d'Avray
ISBN: 9781009597494

Cambridge University Press
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(9) Emerson, the Philosopher of Oppositions
Russell B. Goodman
ISBN: 9781009604598

Cambridge University Press
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(10) European Constitutionalism the Other Way Round: From the Periphery to the Centre
Jan Komárek; Birgit Aasa; Marina Bán; Michal Krajewski
ISBN: 9781009604093

Cambridge University Press
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(11) Eyes and Ears: Secret Agent Work in Cold War China
Michael Schoenhals
ISBN: 9781009604420

Cambridge University Press
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(12) Inter-Asian Law
Matthew S. Erie; Ching-Fu Lin
ISBN: 9781009580632

Cambridge University Press
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(13) Land, Law and Empire: The Origins of British Territorial Power in India
John Marriott
ISBN: 9781009602099

Cambridge University Press
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(14) Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
Felix A. Jiménez Botta
ISBN: 9781009473835

Cambridge University Press
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(15) My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art
Alejandro de la Fuente; Cary Aileen García Yero
ISBN: 9781009586412

Cambridge University Press
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(16) Pablo Neruda in Context
Ignacio López-Calvo
ISBN: 9781009635479

Cambridge University Press
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(17) Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World: Architectural Restoration and Temporality from Augustus to Justinian
Ann Marie Yasin
ISBN: 9781009564748

Cambridge University Press
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(18) Self-Made: The Stories That Forged an American Myth
Pamela Walker Laird
ISBN: 9781108983136

Cambridge University Press
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(19) Sober State: Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India
Darinee Alagirisamy
ISBN: 9781009683142

Cambridge University Press
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(20) The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Problems in the Literary Source Material
Averil Cameron; Lawrence I. Conrad
ISBN: 9783959940856

Cambridge University Press
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(21) The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature
Gavin Kelly; Aaron Pelttari
ISBN: 9781108203678

Cambridge University Press
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(22) The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway
Michael Thurston
ISBN: 9781009422673

Cambridge University Press
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(23) The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear
Ho-fung Hung
ISBN: 9781009559751

Cambridge University Press
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(24) The Conquest of the Mountains: State Violence, Technology, and Authoritarianism in the Ottoman East
Owen Robert Miller
ISBN: 9781009524940

Cambridge University Press
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(25) The Harlem Renaissance Weekly: Reading the New Negro Movement in 1920s Black Newspapers
Martha H. Patterson
ISBN: 9781009566711

Cambridge University Press
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(26) The Holy Land: Travels through Galilee to Damascus and Baalbek and the Green Mosque of Bursa
Pierre Loti; G. Rex Smith; Jonathan M. G. Smith
ISBN: 9783959941518

Cambridge University Press
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(27) The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador
Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra
ISBN: 9781009200110

Cambridge University Press
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(28) The Mediation System of China from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Hao Xiong
ISBN: 9781009581196

Cambridge University Press
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(29) The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60
Reuben Silverman
ISBN: 9781009604482

Cambridge University Press
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(30) The U.S. Presidency: Power, Responsibility, and Accountability
E. Thomas Sullivan; Richard W. Painter
ISBN: 9781009521970

Cambridge University Press
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(31) Time and Governance in Fifteenth-Century Perpignan
Phillip Daileader
ISBN: 9781009601788

Cambridge University Press
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(32) Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, and Political Crimes in Modern China
Jenny Huangfu Day
ISBN: 9781009456081

Cambridge University Press
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(33) Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century
Diana Martha Louis
ISBN: 9780231212878

Columbia University Press
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(34) Modernism and the Middle Passage
Laura Winkiel
ISBN: 9780231217255

Columbia University Press
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(35) Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-by-Step Introduction with Texts from the Buddhist Tradition
Luke Gibson
ISBN: 9780231221238

Columbia University Press
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(36) Seeing Through Abstraction: Literary Encounters with Information in Modern China
Anatoly Detwyler
ISBN: 9780231219884

Columbia University Press
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(37) Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East
Shir Alon
ISBN: 9780231215947

Columbia University Press
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(38) Writing and Materiality in Ancient China: The Textual Culture of the Mawangdui Tombs
Luke Waring
ISBN: 9780231219563

Columbia University Press
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(39) Access Vernaculars: Disability and Accessible Design in Contemporary Russia
Cassandra Hartblay
ISBN: 9781501782831

Cornell University Press
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(40) Cold War Art Worlds: South Asian Art and Artists in Prague, 1947-1989
Simone Wille
ISBN: 9789462704701

Cornell University Press
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(41) Desiring Thai Men: Asian Gay Media and Transforming Masculinities
Narupon Duangwises and Peter A. Jackson
ISBN: 9781501783630

Cornell University Press
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(42) Exposed: A Visual History of the Destruction of the Indonesian Left
Geoffrey Robinson and Douglas Kammen
ISBN: 9781501780592

Cornell University Press
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(43) Hanah's Sheep and Cattle: A Novel
Shira Gorshman
ISBN: 9781501783517

Cornell University Press
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(44) Island Ablaze and Other Stories: The US Empire in North and South Korean Literatures
Edited by Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee and Sang-Kyung Lee
ISBN: 9781501782220

Cornell University Press
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(45) The Enduring Enigma of Lev Tikhomirov
Glenn Cronin
ISBN: 9781501783449

Cornell University Press
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(46) The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change
Mina Roces
ISBN: 9781501785047

Cornell University Press
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(47) Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference
Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante
ISBN: 9781478032632

Duke University Press
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(48) After Caliban: Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary
James, Erica Moiah
ISBN: 9781478032137

Duke University Press
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(49) Beneath the Skin of Sorrow: Improvisations on Loss
Nnenna Freelon
ISBN: 9781478029113

Duke University Press
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(50) Clandestinas: Women in the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1955–1959
Carollee Bengelsdorf
ISBN: 9781478032199

Duke University Press
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(51) Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power
Wazhmah Osman, Robert D. Crews
ISBN: 9781478032601

Duke University Press
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(52) Dyeing with the Earth: Textiles, Tradition, and Sustainability in Contemporary Japan
Charlotte Linton
ISBN: 9781478032212

Duke University Press
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(53) Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance
Deborah A. Thomas
ISBN: 9781478032595

Duke University Press
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(54) Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color
Uri McMillan
ISBN: 9781478032519

Duke University Press
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(55) Modern Peru: A New History
Paulo Drinot, Alberto Vergara
ISBN: 9781478032526

Duke University Press
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(56) Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present
Robyn Maynard
ISBN: 9781478033073

Duke University Press
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(57) Queer Traffic: Sex, Panic, Free Trade
Jennifer Tyburczy
ISBN: 9781478032236

Duke University Press
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(58) Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair
Summer Kim Lee
ISBN: 9781478032052

Duke University Press
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(59) The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us
Jemma DeCristo
ISBN: 9781478032588

Duke University Press
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(60) The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence
Nahum Dimitri Chandler
ISBN: 9781478032489

Duke University Press
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(61) Total Market American: Race, Data, and Advertising
Marcel Rosa-Salas
ISBN: 9781478032540

Duke University Press
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(62) Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art
Bimbola Akinbola
ISBN: 9781478032533

Duke University Press
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(63) Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC
John R. Davis
ISBN: 9781647126353

Georgetown University Press
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(64) The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt: How a Runaway Nun Became a Grand Lady of Washington, DC, Society
Joseph Mannard
ISBN: 9781647126216

Georgetown University Press
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(65) Crude Creatures: Confronting Representations of Black People in Yiddish Culture
Gil Ribak
ISBN: 9781479837977

New York University Press
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(66) Family and Contexts of Development: Challenges in Latin America
Mariano Rosabal-Coto; Javier Tapia-Balladares
ISBN: 9780197675144

Oxford University Press
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(67) A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah
Jeremy Phillip Brown
ISBN: 9781503643

Stanford University Press
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(68) Crisiswork: Activist Lifeworlds and Bounded Futures in Lebanon
Yasemin İpek
ISBN: 9781503643

Stanford University Press
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(69) Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia
Chiara Formichi
ISBN: 9781503635

Stanford University Press
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(70) Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol
Sanyu A. Mojola
ISBN: 9780520303010

University of California Press
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(71) Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition
Mark Goodale
ISBN: 9780520402799

University of California Press
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(72) From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man; Sarah Leah Whitson
ISBN: 9780520402003

University of California Press
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(73) Kigali: A New City for the End of the World
Samuel Joseph Shearer
ISBN: 9780520409972

University of California Press
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(74) Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989
Andrea Horbinski
ISBN: 9780520403987

University of California Press
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(75) Messianism and Sociopolitical Revolution in Medieval Islam
Said Amir Arjomand
ISBN: 9780520425163

University of California Press
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(76) Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato
Anny Gaul
ISBN: 9780520409149

University of California Press
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(77) Pan-African Futurism: Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Development
Reginold A. Royston
ISBN: 9780520423411

University of California Press
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(78) Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906
Lucia Carminati
ISBN: 9780520424715

University of California Press
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(79) Africa in the World’s Time
Diouf, Mamadou
ISBN: 9781803095530

University of Chicago Press
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(80) Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
Melville, Herman
ISBN: 9780226842486

University of Chicago Press
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(81) Decorated Bookbindings in Renaissance Italy Outside Rome and Venice: A Catalogue
Hobson, Anthony
ISBN: 9781851246281

University of Chicago Press
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(82) Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out
Carter, Laura
ISBN: 9781915249906

University of Chicago Press
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(83) E.T.A. Hoffmann
Robertson, Ritchie
ISBN: 9781836391012

University of Chicago Press
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(84) Eleanor of Aquitaine: Woman, Queen and Legend
Grant, Lindy
ISBN: 9781836390862

University of Chicago Press
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(85) Forever President: A Biography of Kim Il Sung
Seth, Michael J.
ISBN: 9781836391043

University of Chicago Press
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(86) Fragmentary Osirian Papyri: Part II
Kucharek, Andrea
ISBN: 9788763547390

University of Chicago Press
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(87) Inventing Stereotype: Race, Representation, and Interwar America
Berger, Martin A.
ISBN: 9780226843674

University of Chicago Press
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(88) Letters from an Old Orangeman
Muholland, Marc
ISBN: 9781068502323

University of Chicago Press
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(89) Living Torches in the Soviet Bloc: Politically motivated cases of self-immolation in 1966–1989
Blažek, Petr
ISBN: 9788024659688

University of Chicago Press
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(90) Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm
Kardashian, Kirk
ISBN: 9781684582945

University of Chicago Press
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(91) Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror
Varon, Jeremy
ISBN: 9780226827681

University of Chicago Press
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(92) Planting Thistles: Scottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian Canada
Forest, Timothy
ISBN: 9780774870979

University of Chicago Press
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(93) Ritual, Embodiment, and Agency: Making Religion in Contemporary West Africa
Kedzierska Manzon, Agnieszka
ISBN: 9781914363191

University of Chicago Press
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(94) The Architectural Casino: Synching Haifa’s Modernisms
Weizman, Ines
ISBN: 9783035806878

University of Chicago Press
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(95) The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa
Green, Toby
ISBN: 9780226844763

University of Chicago Press
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(96) The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion
Jones, Christopher
ISBN: 9780226722047

University of Chicago Press
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(97) The Maria and Neoptolemos Michaelides Residence: Intimations for a New Modernity
Frampton, Kenneth
ISBN: 9783038604112

University of Chicago Press
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(98) Theaster Gates: Unto Thee: Unto Thee
Mardilovich, Galina
ISBN: 9798992216004

University of Chicago Press
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(99) Time Well Spent: An American Architect in Europe, 1893
Hornbostel, Henry
ISBN: 9780887487217

University of Chicago Press
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(100) Unceded: Understanding British Columbia’s Colonial Past and Why It Matters Now
Abbott, George
ISBN: 9780774881159

University of Chicago Press
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(101) Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood
Blubacher, Thomas
ISBN: 9781684582877

University of Chicago Press
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(102) Black Women's Art Ecosystems: Sites of Wellness and Self-Care
Tanisha M. Jackson
ISBN: 9780252046841

University of Illinois Press
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(103) Criminalization of Women: Abortion, Inequity, and Resistance in Chile
Michele Eggers-Barison
ISBN: 9780252046728

University of Illinois Press
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(104) Going Rackless: Chicago's Amateur Pool Players and the Quest for Glory in the Biggest Tournament in the World
Dylan Taylor-Lehman
ISBN: 9780252088896

University of Illinois Press
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(105) Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore's Police State
Michael Casiano
ISBN: 9780252046773

University of Illinois Press
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(106) Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era
Marlee S. Bunch Foreword by Christopher M. Span
ISBN: 9780252046766

University of Illinois Press
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(107) "Without Blare of Trumpets": Walter Drew, The National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-1957
Sidney Fine
ISBN: 9780472223541

University of Michigan Press
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(108) Bringing Their Mother Home: Roman Multiculturalism and the Mother of the Gods
Krishni Burns
ISBN: 9780472222353

University of Michigan Press
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(109) Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy
Sara L. Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne M. Zantop
ISBN: 9780472223305

University of Michigan Press
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(110) Insuring Inequality: Administrative Leadership in Social Security, 1935-54
Jerry R. Cates
ISBN: 9780472223435

University of Michigan Press
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(111) Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art
Leslie Winston
ISBN: 9780472057764

University of Michigan Press
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(112) Malaika and the Seven Heavens: A Memoir of My Encounters with Islam
Toyin Omoyeni Falola
ISBN: 9780472057672

University of Michigan Press
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(113) On the Current Situation in the Ukraine
Serhii Mazlakh, Vasyl' Shakhrai, Peter Potichnyj, and Michael M. Luther
ISBN: 9780472223770

University of Michigan Press
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(114) Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora
Ju Hui Judy Han
ISBN: 9780472905317

University of Michigan Press
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(115) The Education Alibi: Tracing Education's Entanglements across Contemporary Africa
Elizabeth Cooper, Erdmute Alber, and Wandia Njoya
ISBN: 9780472057757

University of Michigan Press
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(116) A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
Dennis Patrick Halpin
ISBN: 9781512828788

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(117) Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Three-Volume Set

ISBN: 9781512829358

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(118) Greater Philadelphia and the Nation: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2
Edited by Charlene Mires and Jean R. Soderlund
ISBN: 9781512826630

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(119) Greater Philadelphia and the World: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 3
Edited by Andrew Heath
ISBN: 9781512827385

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(120) Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey
Alice von Bieberstein
ISBN: 9781512828405

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(121) The Greater Philadelphia Region: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
Edited by Howard Gillette Jr. and Carolyn T. Adams
ISBN: 9781512826043

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(122) The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal
Joan Flores-Villalobos
ISBN: 9781512828757

University of Pennsylvania Press
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(123) Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam
Ken Chitwood
ISBN: 9781477332443

University of Texas Press
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(124) I Am My Own Path: Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos
Edited by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
ISBN: 9781477327913

University of Texas Press
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(125) Miraculous Celebrity: The Christ of Ixmiquilpan and Colonial Piety in Mexico City
Derek S. Burdette
ISBN: 9781477332313

University of Texas Press
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(126) Painting Thangkas on the Tibetan Plateau: Buddhist Art Making in Transition
Xue Ming
ISBN: 9780295754130

University of Washington Press
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(127) Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality
Kong Pheng Pha
ISBN: 9780295754062

University of Washington Press
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(128) Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1986–2001
Jane Kinsman
ISBN: 9780642335074

University of Washington Press
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(129) Women Writers of Huizhou: Imaginaries of Space and Place in Qing China
Binbin Yang
ISBN: 9780295754031

University of Washington Press
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