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(1) A New History of Theatre in France
Clare Finburgh Delijani; Christian Biet
ISBN: 9781108908566
Cambridge University Press
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(2) Back to Black: Racial Reclassification and Political Identity Formation in Brazil
David De Micheli
ISBN: 9781009472357
Cambridge University Press
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(3) Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific
Adam Warren; Julia E. Rodriguez; Stephen T. Casper
ISBN: 9781009398152
Cambridge University Press
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(4) Good Governing: The Police Power in the American States
Daniel B. Rodriguez
ISBN: 9781009127370
Cambridge University Press
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(5) Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China
Xiangli Ding
ISBN: 9781009426589
Cambridge University Press
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(6) Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran
Assef Ashraf
ISBN: 9781009361538
Cambridge University Press
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(7) Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India
Aditi Malik
ISBN: 9781009444217
Cambridge University Press
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(8) Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204): New Texts, New Approaches
Baukje van den Berg; Nikos Zagklas
ISBN: 9781009467292
Cambridge University Press
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(9) The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac
Steven Belletto
ISBN: 9781009423571
Cambridge University Press
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(10) The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime
Jaqueline Berndt
ISBN: 9781009009980
Cambridge University Press
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(11) Tunisian Politics in France: Long-Distance Activism since the 1980s
Mathilde Zederman
ISBN: 9781009508865
Cambridge University Press
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(12) Worlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East
Elizabeth S. Bolman; Scott Fitzgerald Johnson; Jack Tannous
ISBN: 9781108684620
Cambridge University Press
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(13) Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
Xinru Ma and David C. Kang
ISBN: 9780231205375
Columbia University Press
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(14) For Land and Culture: The Grassroots Council Movement of Turkmens in Iran, 1979-1980
Peyman Vahabzadeh
ISBN: 9781773636658
Columbia University Press
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(15) Is the Chinese Economy a Miracle or a Bubble?
Lawrence J. Lau
ISBN: 9789882370951
Columbia University Press
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(16) A Family Chronicle
Sergei Aksakov
ISBN: 9781501777301
Cornell University Press
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(17) Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907-1948
Rudolf Mrázek
ISBN: 9781501777462
Cornell University Press
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(18) Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria
Joseph A. Seeley
ISBN: 9781501777387
Cornell University Press
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(19) Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945
Kirsten E. Schulze
ISBN: 9781501777677
Cornell University Press
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(20) Freedom and the Captive Mind: Fr. Gleb Yakunin and Orthodox Christianity in Soviet Russia
Wallace L. Daniel
ISBN: 9781501777349
Cornell University Press
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(21) Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order: RT as Populist Pariah
Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley and Marie Gillespie
ISBN: 9781501777639
Cornell University Press
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(22) Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran
Pamela Karimi
ISBN: 9789462704183
Cornell University Press
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(23) Word across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories
Tom Smith
ISBN: 9781501777448
Cornell University Press
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(24) All of Us or None: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession
Monisha Das Gupta
ISBN: 9781478030874
Duke University Press
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(25) Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
Masi Asare
ISBN: 9781478030959
Duke University Press
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(26) Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta
Gabriela Leite
ISBN: 9781478030508
Duke University Press
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(27) Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation
Christina Cecelia Davidson
ISBN: 9781478030942
Duke University Press
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(28) Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art
Nikki A. Greene
ISBN: 9781478030577
Duke University Press
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(29) Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings
Marisol Negrón
ISBN: 9781478030898
Duke University Press
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(30) Soldier′s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
ISBN: 9781478030836
Duke University Press
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(31) The Book of Politics: China in Theory
Michael Dutton
ISBN: 9781478030195
Duke University Press
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(32) The Promise of Beauty
Mimi Thi Nguyen
ISBN: 9781478030973
Duke University Press
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(33) The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
Doyle D. Calhoun
ISBN: 9781478030744
Duke University Press
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(34) Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America
Kency Cornejo
ISBN: 9781478030546
Duke University Press
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(35) Your History with Me: The Films of Penny Siopis
Nuttall, Sarah
ISBN: 9781478030430
Duke University Press
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(36) An Open-Ended Run: A Memoir
Layne Coleman
ISBN: 9781779400260
New York University Press
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(37) Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement
Fern Tiger
ISBN: 9781613322512
New York University Press
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(38) Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair
Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson
ISBN: 9781479814732
New York University Press
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(39) Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth
Edited by Robert Shetterly
ISBN: 9781613322567
New York University Press
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(40) The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience
Samuel J. Redman
ISBN: 9781479835317
New York University Press
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(41) Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia
Laura Frances Goffman
ISBN: 9781503638
Stanford University Press
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(42) Kabbalah and Catastrophe: Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism
Hartley Lachter
ISBN: 9781503640
Stanford University Press
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(43) Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon
Lara Deeb
ISBN: 9781503640
Stanford University Press
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(44) Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China
Samantha A. Vortherms
ISBN: 9781503640
Stanford University Press
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(45) Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance
Suk-Young Kim
ISBN: 9781503614
Stanford University Press
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(46) The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
ISBN: 9781503639
Stanford University Press
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(47) The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Nir Shafir
ISBN: 9781503638
Stanford University Press
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(48) Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea
Andrea Wright
ISBN: 9781503632
Stanford University Press
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(49) A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina
Christien Philmarc Tompkins
ISBN: 9780520400948
University of California Press
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(50) A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge
Li Shizhen; Paul U. Unschuld
ISBN: 9780520404236
University of California Press
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(51) Biotraffic: Medicines and Environmental Governance in the Afterlives of Apartheid
Christopher Morris
ISBN: 9780520404014
University of California Press
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(52) Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life
Joe William Trotter
ISBN: 9780520344419
University of California Press
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(53) Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums
Jeremy Braddock
ISBN: 9780520398511
University of California Press
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(54) Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition
Lisa Jacobson
ISBN: 9780520401099
University of California Press
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(55) Law in Light: Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana
Lauren Coyle Rosen
ISBN: 9780520397064
University of California Press
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(56) Scripting Suicide in Japan
Kirsten Cather
ISBN: 9780520400269
University of California Press
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(57) Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings
Zinga A. Fraser; Shirley Chisholm
ISBN: 9780520386983
University of California Press
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(58) The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
Michael Dylan Foster; Shinonome Kijin
ISBN: 9780520403888
University of California Press
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(59) The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala
Giovanni Batz
ISBN: 9780520401730
University of California Press
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(60) The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s
Satnam Singh
ISBN: 9780520399372
University of California Press
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(61) Women, Faith, and Family: Reclaiming Gender Justice through Religious Activism
Samaneh Oladi
ISBN: 9780520400450
University of California Press
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(62) A Prodigy’s Calling: The Early Musical Biography of Cosmas Magaya, Zimbabwean Mbira Master
Berliner, Paul F.
ISBN: 9780226835174
University of Chicago Press
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(63) Alliances and Treaties with Indigenous Peoples of Quebec: The History of the Wolastoqiyik First Nation
Girard, Camil
ISBN: 9782766302710
University of Chicago Press
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(64) Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
Epstein, Katherine C.
ISBN: 9780226831220
University of Chicago Press
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(65) Arabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the Learning of Colloquial Arabic, 1798–1945
Mairs, Rachel
ISBN: 9781800086203
University of Chicago Press
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(66) Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century
Salvo, Sophie
ISBN: 9780226827728
University of Chicago Press
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(67) Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America
Moran, Rachel
ISBN: 9780226835792
University of Chicago Press
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(68) Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
Bagley, Joseph M.
ISBN: 9781684582815
University of Chicago Press
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(69) Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century
Jack, Caroline
ISBN: 9780226835143
University of Chicago Press
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(70) Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power
Barnhisel, Greg
ISBN: 9780226647203
University of Chicago Press
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(71) Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment
Orock, Rogers
ISBN: 9780226835860
University of Chicago Press
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(72) Divine Light: The Art of Mosaic in Rome, 300–1300 AD
Stein, Wendy A.
ISBN: 9783777442594
University of Chicago Press
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(73) Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
Scruggs, Dalila
ISBN: 9780226836577
University of Chicago Press
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(74) Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond
Ziporyn, Brook
ISBN: 9780226835266
University of Chicago Press
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(75) False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age
Lowande, Kenneth
ISBN: 9780226837253
University of Chicago Press
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(76) Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition
Diliberto, Gioia
ISBN: 9780226819679
University of Chicago Press
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(77) Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
McKittrick, Meredith
ISBN: 9780226834696
University of Chicago Press
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(78) HR Giger: The Early Years
Bieler, Charly
ISBN: 9783039421961
University of Chicago Press
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(79) Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery
Araujo, Ana Lucia
ISBN: 9780226771588
University of Chicago Press
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(80) International Velvet: How Wales Conquered the ’90s Charts
Collins, Neil
ISBN: 9781915279309
University of Chicago Press
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(81) La main (et) le gant: Kokoschka à portée de main
Farron, Margaux
ISBN: 9783858818935
University of Chicago Press
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(82) LeRoy Neiman: The Life of America’s Most Beloved and Belittled Artist
Vogan, Travis
ISBN: 9780226820071
University of Chicago Press
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(83) Man in a Hurry: Murray MacLehose and Colonial Autonomy in Hong Kong
Yep, Ray
ISBN: 9789888842926
University of Chicago Press
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(84) Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act
Spychal, Martin
ISBN: 9781914477393
University of Chicago Press
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(85) Mark: Sonya Kelliher-Combs
Decker, Julie
ISBN: 9783777442549
University of Chicago Press
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(86) Materialising the Roman Empire
Tanner, Jeremy
ISBN: 9781800084001
University of Chicago Press
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(87) Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
Soffer, Michael
ISBN: 9780226835549
University of Chicago Press
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(88) Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest
Pinkert, Anke
ISBN: 9780226835334
University of Chicago Press
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(89) Rêvoir
Cixous, Hélène
ISBN: 9781803093871
University of Chicago Press
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(90) Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris
Kaplan, Alice
ISBN: 9780226835082
University of Chicago Press
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(91) Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu
Steiner, Juri
ISBN: 9783039421923
University of Chicago Press
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(92) The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History
Levine, Naomi
ISBN: 9780226834979
University of Chicago Press
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(93) The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression
Banout, Tony
ISBN: 9780226837802
University of Chicago Press
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(94) The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
Charles, Sara J.
ISBN: 9781789149166
University of Chicago Press
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(95) The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France
Dunlop, Catherine
ISBN: 9780226827544
University of Chicago Press
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(96) The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism
Kirby, Terry
ISBN: 9781789149418
University of Chicago Press
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(97) The Prelude
Wordsworth, William
ISBN: 9781684582501
University of Chicago Press
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(98) The University of Chicago: A History
Boyer, John W.
ISBN: 9780226835303
University of Chicago Press
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(99) Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel
Caputo, Sara
ISBN: 9780226837925
University of Chicago Press
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(100) Transversal Territory: A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach in Urban Research
de Perrot, Antoine
ISBN: 9783038603726
University of Chicago Press
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(101) Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market: An Anthropology of Endings
Jónsson, Gunvor
ISBN: 9781800086326
University of Chicago Press
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(102) Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line:
Rachel Carrico
ISBN: 9780252045974
University of Illinois Press
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(103) History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930
David M. Emmons
ISBN: 9780252046094
University of Illinois Press
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(104) Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity
Nishant Upadhyay
ISBN: 9780252046117
University of Illinois Press
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(105) Postconflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Choco, Colombia
Tania Lizarazo
ISBN: 9780252046278
University of Illinois Press
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(106) Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana
Ellie Gore
ISBN: 9780472057023
University of Michigan Press
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(107) Fantasies of Ito Michio
Tara Rodman
ISBN: 9780472056835
University of Michigan Press
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(108) Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions
A.D. Carson
ISBN: 9780472999088
University of Michigan Press
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(109) Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom
Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
ISBN: 9780472904594
University of Michigan Press
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(110) The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
ISBN: 9780472057047
University of Michigan Press
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(111) Typologies of Humor in African Literatures
Adwoa A Opoku-Agyemang
ISBN: 9780472221868
University of Michigan Press
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(112) Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World
Jorge Flores
ISBN: 9781512826449
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(113) Philadelphia: A Narrative History
Paul Kahan
ISBN: 9781512826296
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(114) The Inquisition's Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia
Richard L. Kagan
ISBN: 9781512825985
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(115) Finding Caspicara: Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Colonial Quito
Susan Verdi Webster
ISBN: 9781477329726
University of Texas Press
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(116) The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde: Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil
Mari Rodríguez Binnie
ISBN: 9781477329863
University of Texas Press
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(117) Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Caitlin Keliiaa
ISBN: 9780295753003
University of Washington Press
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(118) Transpacific, Undisciplined
Lily Wong; Christopher B. Patterson; Chien-ting Lin
ISBN: 9780295752754
University of Washington Press
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