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(1) A History of American Gay Autobiography
David Bergman; Guy Davidson
ISBN: 9781009329231
Cambridge University Press
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(2) Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Prevents Criminal Wars in New Democracies
Guillermo Trejo; Lucía Tiscornia; Juan Albarracín
ISBN: 9781009667760
Cambridge University Press
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(3) African Literature in Transition: Genres of African Literature, 1900–2020
Moradewun Adejunmobi
ISBN: 9781009694681
Cambridge University Press
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(4) Defending Democracy: Citizenship as a Vocation
David M. Ricci
ISBN: 9781009731614
Cambridge University Press
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(5) Denial, Deterrence, and Disenchantment: Why Many Never Immigrate
Jacob Richard Thomas
ISBN: 9781009661508
Cambridge University Press
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(6) Interlanguage Grammars of Mandarin Chinese
Boping Yuan
ISBN: 9781009122047
Cambridge University Press
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(7) Law for the Land: The Public Trust Doctrine, Mono Lake, and a Quiet Revolution in Environmental Rights
Erin Ryan
ISBN: 9781316761427
Cambridge University Press
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(8) Liberty, Solidarity and Community: Capitalism and European Integration, 1945 to the Present
Laurent Warlouzet
ISBN: 9781009682633
Cambridge University Press
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(9) Making Protest: The Role of Protest Brokers in South Africa's Urban Landscape
Sarah J. Lockwood
ISBN: 9781009555876
Cambridge University Press
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(10) Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople
Derek Krueger
ISBN: 9781009648363
Cambridge University Press
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(11) Nuer Messianic Judaism: Truth and Mediation in the Ethiopia-South Sudan Borderlands
Yotam Gidron
ISBN: 9781009689816
Cambridge University Press
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(12) Ottoman Reform at Work: Class, Migration, and Coercion in the Imperial Arsenal
Akın Sefer
ISBN: 9781009674126
Cambridge University Press
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(13) Political Belonging in the Ghana–Togo Borderlands: Citizenship and the Vote at the Margins of the State
Nathalie Raunet
ISBN: 9781009674409
Cambridge University Press
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(14) Soviet Jews under Late Stalinism: A Story from the Western Borderlands
Diana Dumitru
ISBN: 9781009671538
Cambridge University Press
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(15) The Politics of Nature in Nazi Germany: Environmental Ideals and the Myth of Blood and Soil
Peter Staudenmaier
ISBN: 9781009653480
Cambridge University Press
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(16) The Resilience of the Old Regime: Paths Around Democracy in Europe, 1832–1919
David Art
ISBN: 9781009710695
Cambridge University Press
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(17) Urban Revolution: People's Communes in Beijing
Fabio Lanza
ISBN: 9781009682459
Cambridge University Press
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(18) Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States
Samantha Iyer
ISBN: 9780231215039
Columbia University Press
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(19) Art and Imagination: Mongolian Buddhist Texts and Rituals
Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg Tsultemin
ISBN: 9780231194792
Columbia University Press
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(20) Betrayal of the Homeland: Disloyal Subjects in Wartime Syria
Samer Abboud
ISBN: 9780231215336
Columbia University Press
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(21) Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle
Ellen McLarney
ISBN: 9780231219426
Columbia University Press
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(22) Eyes of the Sky
Syaman Rapongan. Translated by Kyle Shernuk
ISBN: 9780231211710
Columbia University Press
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(23) I Hear Freedom: The Great Migration, Free Jazz, and Black Power
Cisco Bradley. Foreword by Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn
ISBN: 9780231221573
Columbia University Press
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(24) Jimmy Carter and China: Multilateral Competition in the Global Cold War
Sheng Peng
ISBN: 9780231211956
Columbia University Press
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(25) Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War
Augusta Dell'Omo
ISBN: 9780231215893
Columbia University Press
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(26) The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11
Nathaniel Greenberg
ISBN: 9780231215961
Columbia University Press
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(27) The Traitor: A Novel
Abe Kōbō. Translated by Mark Gibeau
ISBN: 9780231212953
Columbia University Press
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(28) Treachery and Diplomacy: The Shadow Politics of US–Africa Relations
Sobukwe Odinga
ISBN: 9780231202695
Columbia University Press
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(29) Always Under Siege: Olga Freidenberg's Diary-Theory and the Everyday Terror of Stalinism
Irina Paperno
ISBN: 9781501785832
Cornell University Press
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(30) Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia
Kristina Jonutytė
ISBN: 9781501786068
Cornell University Press
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(31) Lyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan
Marianne Tarcov
ISBN: 9781501786785
Cornell University Press
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(32) Domesticating Brown: Movements of Racial Imagination
Christopher B. Patterson
ISBN: 9781478032892
Duke University Press
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(33) Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire
Denise Tse-Shang Tang
ISBN: 9781478038566
Duke University Press
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(34) I’ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity, and Displacement in São Paulo
Andrew G. Britt
ISBN: 9781478032816
Duke University Press
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(35) Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy: NA
Daisuke Miyao
ISBN: 9781478033325
Duke University Press
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(36) Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms
Michelle N. Huang
ISBN: 9781478033196
Duke University Press
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(37) Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas
Nikita Kaur Simpson
ISBN: 9781478033295
Duke University Press
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(38) The Climate Trial: Law and Justice on a Melting Planet
Noah Walker-Crawford
ISBN: 9781478033172
Duke University Press
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(39) On Retirement: How Aging is Transforming American Lives
Daniel Horowitz
ISBN: 9781479841219
New York University Press
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(40) Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI
Sarah Murray
ISBN: 9781479836406
New York University Press
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(41) Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America
Amy D. McDowell
ISBN: 9781479827633
New York University Press
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(42) After the Broken Spears: The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest
Camilla Townsend; Josh Anthony
ISBN: 9780197776179
Oxford University Press
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(43) Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven?
Ignacio de la Rasilla; Congyan Cai; Jiangyu Wang
ISBN: 9780198888345
Oxford University Press
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(44) Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance
Tosin Gbogi
ISBN: 9780197782033
Oxford University Press
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(45) The Oxford Handbook of Social Welfare in the Global South
Anis Ben Brik
ISBN: 9780197761465
Oxford University Press
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(46) A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan
by Sayaka Chatani, with KumHee Cho
ISBN: 9781503636
Stanford University Press
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(47) After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions
Hilary Matfess
ISBN: 9781503645
Stanford University Press
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(48) Colorblind: Racial Thinking and Cultural Production in Modern Iran and the Diaspora
Amy Motlagh
ISBN: 9781503636
Stanford University Press
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(49) Nahmanides: An Intellectual Biography
Oded Yisraeli
ISBN: 9781503639
Stanford University Press
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(50) The State of Lebanon: Popular Politics and Institution Building in the Wake of Independence
Ziad Abu-Rish
ISBN: 9781503645
Stanford University Press
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(51) Torikaebaya Monogatari: A Japanese Tale of Gender-Swapped Siblings
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Rosette F. Willig Reissued with a New Introduction by Gustav Heldt
ISBN: 9781503646
Stanford University Press
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(52) Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom
Mithi Mukherjee
ISBN: 9780520425811
University of California Press
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(53) Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds
Amelia Frank-Vitale; Jason De Leon
ISBN: 9780520421356
University of California Press
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(54) The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family's Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution
Charlotte Brooks
ISBN: 9780520409552
University of California Press
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(55) The Sovereign Poison: Glyphosate, Poisoncraft, and Regulatory Politics
Tom Widger
ISBN: 9780520302396
University of California Press
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(56) Together We Fight: Surviving Peru's Campaign of Coercive Sterilizations
Ñusta Carranza Ko
ISBN: 9780520396647
University of California Press
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(57) Ará’lúèbó: The Immigrant Monologues
Olorunnisola, KÁNYIN
ISBN: 9781968209001
University of Chicago Press
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(58) Architects of Long Change: The Expert Roots of Post-Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1980–1995)
Kopecek, Michal
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(59) Beckmann: Drawings
Finke, Hedda
ISBN: 9783777446226
University of Chicago Press
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(60) Best Laid Plans: Unrealized Projects from the Archives of American Art
Proctor, Jacob
ISBN: 9783777446882
University of Chicago Press
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(61) Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s
Stein, Marc
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(62) Flora Indica
Noltie, Henry
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(63) Gateways to Trade: Global Value Chains and Governance in Canadian Cities
Brunelle, Dorval
ISBN: 9780774872034
University of Chicago Press
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(64) Gestuary
Kandé, Sylvie
ISBN: 9781803096087
University of Chicago Press
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(65) Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
Unger, Harlow Giles
ISBN: 9781684583164
University of Chicago Press
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(66) Indigenous Law in Context: Tsilhqot’in Dechen Ts’edilhtan in the Governance of Water
Hanna, Alan
ISBN: 9780774871228
University of Chicago Press
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(67) Inventing Writing: Prophets, Shamans, and the Transmission of Ritual Discourse in North American Indigenous Cultures, 1600–1900
Déléage, Pierre
ISBN: 9781912808298
University of Chicago Press
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(68) Jan Blažej Santini and His Architectural World
Bachtík, Jakub
ISBN: 9788024660974
University of Chicago Press
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(69) Leagues of Laughter: War, Comedy and the Soviet Legacy in Russia and Ukraine
Garey, A. Austin
ISBN: 9781800088795
University of Chicago Press
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(70) Mao’s Final Legacies and the Sino–Vietnamese War, 1971–79
Wang, Chenyi
ISBN: 9780774872546
University of Chicago Press
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(71) Medieval Prague
Royt, Jan
ISBN: 9788024661230
University of Chicago Press
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(72) No Country for Travellers?: British Visitors to Spain and Portugal, 1760–1820
Sweet, Rosemary
ISBN: 9781800088726
University of Chicago Press
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(73) Nothing Less Than Equality: The Battle over Segregated Education in the Nation’s Capital
Hamilton, Tikia
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(74) Phantom Byzantium: Europe, Empire, and Identity from Late Antiquity to World War II
Kaldellis, Anthony
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(75) Politics of Legitimacy: State-Society Relations and Patterns of Chinese Politics
Zhao, Dingxin
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(76) Process as Power: The Legitimacy of Indigenous Consultation in British Columbia Environmental Assessments
Do, Minh
ISBN: 9780774872263
University of Chicago Press
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(77) Raising the Floor: Federalism and the Politics of US Minimum Wage Policy
Rose, Shanna
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(78) Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac
Loewentheil, Jacob
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(79) Shakespeare and the Senses
Dugan, Holly E.
ISBN: 9780866986960
University of Chicago Press
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(80) Tender Alchemy: Beth Ames Swartz and Julianne Swartz
O’Connell, Lauren R.
ISBN: 9783777446875
University of Chicago Press
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(81) The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism
Silveri, Rachel
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(82) The Fates of Central Europe Between Hitler and Stalin: Selected Writings of Josef Guttmann
Rupnik, Jacques
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(83) The People’s Uprising and the Fall of Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942–June 1943
Dreifuss, Havi Ben-Sasson
ISBN: 9781684583065
University of Chicago Press
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(84) The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation
Bartels, Larry
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(85) This Is a True War Story: My Improbable History with Vietnam
Brigham, Robert
ISBN: 9780226846880
University of Chicago Press
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(86) Walking a City’s History: Mexico City from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(87) War and Peace in Asia: International Law and Politics in Armed Conflicts
Kittichaisaree, Kriangsak
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(88) White Care: The Impact of Race on American Infrastructure
Seiler, Cotten
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(89) The Divided City and Its New Cinemas, 1920-1980:
Amy Murphy
ISBN: 9780252049712
University of Illinois Press
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(90) Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance
Edited by Karen McNally
ISBN: 9780252049729
University of Illinois Press
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(91) Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic
Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe
ISBN: 9780472057993
University of Michigan Press
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(92) The Post-Global City: Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa
Katrien Pype, Omolade Adunbi, and Michael M.J. Fischer
ISBN: 9780472905430
University of Michigan Press
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(93) We Rode the Rhythms as One: On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight
Norman Minnick
ISBN: 9780472040162
University of Michigan Press
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(94) A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
Jane Berger
ISBN: 9781512829686
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(95) Before World Literature: The Trickster Tales of al-Hariri in an Age of Commentary
Matthew L. Keegan
ISBN: 9781512828870
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(96) Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters
Timothy Sweet
ISBN: 9781512829631
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(97) The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
Aaron Sullivan
ISBN: 9781512829693
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(98) The Hundred Years War, Volume 5: Triumph and Illusion
Jonathan Sumption
ISBN: 9781512826777
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(99) The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom
Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
ISBN: 9781512829709
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(100) Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
Kathleen M. Brown
ISBN: 9781512829723
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(101) Beyond the Moment: Connecting Histories of Latinx Performance and Resistance
Irene Mata
ISBN: 9781477333570
University of Texas Press
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(102) Indigenous Visual Cultures in Latin America: Seeing, Being, and Meaning
Edited by Tamara L. Bray and Carolyn Dean
ISBN: 9781477333082
University of Texas Press
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(103) Nonreligious Lifeworlds in Egypt: Sense-Making, Emotion, and Embodiment
Karin van Nieuwkerk
ISBN: 9781477333358
University of Texas Press
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(104) The Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City
Elena McGrath
ISBN: 9781477333297
University of Texas Press
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(105) The Selena Reader: Remembering the Queen of Tejano
Edited by Larissa M. Mercado-López and Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa
ISBN: 9781477333495
University of Texas Press
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(106) Revolutionary Natures: Grassroots Environmental Histories of China's Mao Era
Micah S. Muscolino
ISBN: 9780295754383
University of Washington Press
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