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(1) A Ruined Home: Sketches of War
Edited by Volodymyr Hromov
ISBN: 9783838220086

Columbia University Press
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(2) Becoming Jewish in Berlin: Ethnography of an Urban Scene
Vanessa Rau
ISBN: 9783837674156

Columbia University Press
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(3) Bird on the Street: The Unnatural History of Starlings
Julia M. Zichello
ISBN: 9780231226349

Columbia University Press
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(4) Catalytic Mega-Events: Tokyo 2020 and Planetary Urban Transformation
Edited by Filippo Bignami, Christian Dimmer, Erez Golani Solomon, Devena Haggis, and Naomi C. Hanakata
ISBN: 9783837665192

Columbia University Press
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(5) Counter-Monuments: Memory Practices in Public Space
Edited by Maria Engelskirchen, Ursula Frohne, Corinna Kühn, and Marianne Wagner
ISBN: 9783837670844

Columbia University Press
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(6) Cybersecurity and Society: Practices, Infrastructures, and Digital Risk

ISBN: 9783837680850

Columbia University Press
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(7) Defining China: From Dynastic State to People’s Republic
Mara Yue Du
ISBN: 9780231218429

Columbia University Press
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(8) Digital Culture & Society (DCS): Vol. 12, Issue 2/2026 – The Targeting State: AI, Surveillance, and Predictive Power
Edited by Ramón Reichert and Sagal Hussein
ISBN: 9783837678550

Columbia University Press
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(9) Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge: Vol. 6, No. 12/2026: Circular Design for Transforming Cities
Edited by Jörg Schröder, Alissa Diesch, Riccarda Cappeller, Anna Pape, and Martynas Germanavičius
ISBN: 9783837669824

Columbia University Press
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(10) Face to Face with the CIA: The Memoir of a North Vietnamese Spymaster
Nguyễn Tài. Translated by Quan Manh Ha and Merle L. Pribbenow. Foreword by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
ISBN: 9780231221528

Columbia University Press
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(11) Fast Culture, Slow Justice: How Digital Platforms Failed Black Lives Matter
Richard Jean So
ISBN: 9780231223959

Columbia University Press
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(12) Imagining Europe and Ukraine: Mutual Perceptions of Europeans and Ukrainians in the 20th and Early 21st Century
Andrii Martynov. Foreword by Eduard Afonin
ISBN: 9783838220376

Columbia University Press
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(13) Inclusion in Science: The Social Architecture of Science-Public Relations
Claudia Göbel
ISBN: 9783837682236

Columbia University Press
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(14) Inside Ukrainian Diplomacy: Reflections and Analyses, 1995–2016, Vol. 2
Volodymyr Khandogiy
ISBN: 9783838221489

Columbia University Press
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(15) Mary Kay: How a Cosmetics Empire Transformed Women’s Work in America
Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
ISBN: 9780231216227

Columbia University Press
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(16) Modes of Production: Performing Arts in Transition
Edited by Fernando Matos Oliveira and Vânia Rodrigues
ISBN: 9783837666618

Columbia University Press
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(17) Professing Architecture: Morals, Markets, and Architects in the Early United States
Bryan E. Norwood
ISBN: 9780231224604

Columbia University Press
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(18) Puppet Masters of Evolution: How Parasites Shape Life
Andrew A. Davinack
ISBN: 9780231223270

Columbia University Press
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(19) Temporal Privilege: Time, Power, and Possibility
Jill Stauffer
ISBN: 9780231224666

Columbia University Press
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(20) The Art of Not Governing: Local Politics and Democratic Decline in Lebanon
Christiana Parreira
ISBN: 9780231221887

Columbia University Press
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(21) The Book of China: A Persian Merchant’s Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court
ʿAli Akbar Khatayi. Edited and translated by Kaveh Hemmat, John Curry, and Hyunhee Park. With assistance from Lanshin Chang and Fan Rong
ISBN: 9780231224307

Columbia University Press
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(22) The Night Before: Essays on Music, Comics, and Culture
David Hajdu
ISBN: 9780231225168

Columbia University Press
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(23) The Russian War Against Ukraine: Investigations of Its Social and Historical Context, 2014–2024
Edited by Olha Marmilova and Yuliia Soroka. Foreword by Ulrich Schmid
ISBN: 9783838220352

Columbia University Press
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(24) The Young Turk International: How Islamic Bolshevism Shaped the Global Order at the End of the Ottoman Empire
Alp Yenen
ISBN: 9780231202992

Columbia University Press
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(25) Ukrainian Freedom: Collective Agency in National Defense
Edited by Amber French-Griette. Foreword by Oleksandra Matviichuk
ISBN: 9783838221687

Columbia University Press
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(26) When Companies Rule: Corporate Power from the East India Company to Silicon Valley
Maha Rafi Atal
ISBN: 9780231222907

Columbia University Press
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(27) Whispers of Survival: War, Trauma, and the Making of Civilian Rescuers
Alla Prokhovnik-Raphique. Foreword by Sarah Adams
ISBN: 9783838221144

Columbia University Press
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(28) Dreams and Reality: A Memoir
Shifra Lipshitz
ISBN: 9781501790522

Cornell University Press
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(29) Philosophy of the Name
Sergii Bulgakov
ISBN: 9781501790775

Cornell University Press
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(30) The Endurance of the Mare: Tales of Violence and Resilience from the Eastern Borderlands of Gender and Europe
Alyosxa Tudor
ISBN: 9781501790171

Cornell University Press
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(31) The Forest of Remembrance: Paneriai in History, Culture, and Politics
Zigmas Vitkus
ISBN: 9781501790249

Cornell University Press
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(32) The Necessary Man: Petr Chaadaev and the Invention of Russian Literature
Ingrid Anne Kleespies
ISBN: 9781501790133

Cornell University Press
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(33) The Soviet Trickster: Cynicism and Its Subversions
Mark Lipovetsky
ISBN: 9781501789991

Cornell University Press
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(34) Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary
Celeste-Marie Bernier
ISBN:

Duke University Press
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(35) Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times
Cathy N. Davidson, Jody Greene
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Duke University Press
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(36) Inland Empire: Settler Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Southern California
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
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Duke University Press
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(37) Learning from the High Priestess: Affect, Care, and Somatic Practice
Ann Cvetkovich
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Duke University Press
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(38) Materia Medica: Black Women, White Doctors, and Spectacular Gynecology
Nicole N. Ivy
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Duke University Press
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(39) Private Subjects: Family Photography in South Africa and the Right to Opacity
John Peffer
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Duke University Press
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(40) The Audacious Ministry of Zilpha Elaw: Race, Religion, and Rebellion
Kimberly D. Blockett
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Duke University Press
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(41) The Urban Grotesque: Life and Debt in Jakarta
Doreen Lee
ISBN:

Duke University Press
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(42) Viscous Performances: The Persistence of Creative Resistances in Neoliberal Chile
María José Contreras Lorenzini
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Duke University Press
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(43) Wild Tongue: A Borderlands Mixtape
Jonathan Leal
ISBN:

Duke University Press
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(44) Lesbian Feminist Killjoys: Sin, Queer Negativity, and Inherited Guilt
Wendy Mallette
ISBN: 9781479839377

New York University Press
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(45) Mama, Don’t You Weep: Black Motherhood, Performance, and the Costs of Grief
Rhaisa Kameela Williams
ISBN: 9781479841073

New York University Press
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(46) Northern Comfort: The New England Baking Tradition
Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9781479849703

New York University Press
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(47) The Pope Against Nuremberg: How the Vatican Helped Nazis Escape Postwar Justice
Gerald J. Steinacher
ISBN: 9781479845248

New York University Press
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(48) Civil and Criminal Justice Responses to the Sexual Victimization of American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Contexts, Decisions, and Outcomes
Paul D. Steele
ISBN: 9780190275631

Oxford University Press
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(49) The Guelaguetza: Transborder Indigeneity, Music, and Festival in Greater Oaxaca
Xóchitl C. Chavez
ISBN: 9780197613184

Oxford University Press
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(50) Care, Kin, Crack-Up: Fukushima and the Intrusion of Gaia

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University of California Press
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(51) Eyes in the Shadows: The Dawn of National Security Surveillance

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University of California Press
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(52) Ill Erotics: Black Jamaican Women and Self-Making in Times of HIV/AIDS

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University of California Press
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(53) Imagined Environments: The Making of the Borderlands

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University of California Press
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(54) Living Genealogies: Embodiment and Colonialism in the Creation of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

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University of California Press
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(55) Sonic Infrastructures: Mediating National Cinemas in West and South Asia

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University of California Press
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(56) The World in a Wheat Field: Mexico, Science, and the Challenge of Ending Global Hunger

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University of California Press
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(57) Traces of Intimacy: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and the Borderlands of Race

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University of California Press
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(58) Warzone Ecology: The Violence of Planetary Repair in Iraq

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University of California Press
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(59) ‘What Have You Done for Victory?’: A Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War
Labanyi, Jo
ISBN: 9781836392781

University of Chicago Press
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(60) "A System of Architectural Ornament" by Louis H. Sullivan: Facsimile Edition and Reader’s Guide
Sullivan, Louis
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(61) A Drunkard’s Story: Life on the Nineteenth-Century Public Stage
Augst, Thomas
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(62) A System of Architectural Ornament: Facsimile Edition and Reader’s Guide
Sullivan, Louis
ISBN: 9780226850542

University of Chicago Press
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(63) Alien: Reflections on Being an Immigrant
Galea, Sandro
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(64) American Daughter: A Midcentury Memoir of Black Life on the Plains
Thompson, Era Bell
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(65) Assemblage: Atelier Pierre Thibualt
Thibault, Pierre
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(66) Atelier Peter Zumthor: Architecture Models
Grönlund, Hannele
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(67) Boundaries of Repair: Memory, Emotion, and Mobility across Timor-Leste and Indonesia
Sakti, Victoria
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(68) Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity, Patriarchy, and the Search for Freedom in Indian Punjab
Gill, Harjant
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University of Chicago Press
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(69) Eating the Mountain, Eating the Sea: A History of Food in China
Gibas, Piotr
ISBN: 9781836392811

University of Chicago Press
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(70) Excuses: Buildings and Projects by Norman Kelley
Norman, Carrie
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University of Chicago Press
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(71) Fishel Rabinowicz
Winter, Anita
ISBN: 9783039423347

University of Chicago Press
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(72) Horizontal Comparison: Africa, the Caribbean, and the Making of Black World Literature
Iheka, Cajetan
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University of Chicago Press
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(73) I Am St. Louis
Wanko, Andrew
ISBN: 9798985571684

University of Chicago Press
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(74) I Stashed It Somewhere
Havel, Václav
ISBN:

University of Chicago Press
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(75) I Will Take to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea
Anderson, David
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University of Chicago Press
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(76) Kwong Von Glinow: There Is Room
Kwong, Lap Chi
ISBN: 9783038604822

University of Chicago Press
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(77) Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Anderson, Alex T.
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University of Chicago Press
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(78) Men, Care and Well-being in Super-aged Japan: Male family carers in a society in transition
Costantini, Hiroko
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University of Chicago Press
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(79) Miscellaneous Tactics: The Architecture, etc. of OJT
Shaw, Matt
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University of Chicago Press
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(80) Myanmar’s Spring Revolution: Students, higher education and political change
Lall, Marie
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University of Chicago Press
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(81) Nefertiti: The Making of a Global Icon
Conrad, Sebastian
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University of Chicago Press
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(82) Nicolas Guagnini: Ceramics
Guagnini, Nicolas
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University of Chicago Press
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(83) Olaf Breuning: Genius and Stupidity
Merten, Sarah
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University of Chicago Press
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(84) On the Street of the Hidden Shops: One City Block, Two Thousand Years, and a Walk Through the Layered Lives of Rome
Rodini, Elizabeth
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University of Chicago Press
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(85) Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immoral Instructors
Sade, Marquis
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University of Chicago Press
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(86) Silent Knowledge: Reviving Embodied Practice in Sápmi
Magnani, Natalia
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University of Chicago Press
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(87) Taking Apart: An Incomplete Catalog of AW–ARCH
Anmahian, Alex
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University of Chicago Press
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(88) The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life
Berlant, Lauren
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University of Chicago Press
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(89) The King’s Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820
Crymble, Adam
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University of Chicago Press
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(90) The Malay Archipelago Through Travellers’ Eyes: 1800–1900
Bosnak, Judith E.
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University of Chicago Press
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(91) The Other Garment Industry: Politics, marketplaces and the informal production of fashion in Latin America
Dewey, Matías
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University of Chicago Press
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(92) The Russian Archipelago at War Against Ukraine: Culture and Contexts 2022–2025
Glanc, Tomáš
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University of Chicago Press
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(93) The Shan Rebellion: Siam’s Colonial Struggle to Secure Lanna
Walker, Andrew
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University of Chicago Press
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(94) The Silk Road Idea: Ancient Contact in the Modern Human Sciences
Chin, Tamara
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University of Chicago Press
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(95) The Spear Will Bend: The Tumultuous Life of a Burmese Democrat
Htein, Win
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University of Chicago Press
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(96) The Technology of Drawing: Image and Industry in the Early United States
Eager, Elizabeth Bacon
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University of Chicago Press
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(97) There Is Room: Architecture of Kwong Von Glinow
Kwong, Lap Chi
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University of Chicago Press
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(98) To Taste: On Cooking and the Good Life
Samuelson, Scott
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University of Chicago Press
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(99) Unfolding Color: Simon Hantaï
Zamani, Daniel
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University of Chicago Press
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(100) Disability Disruptions: Gender, Family, and Care in Post-1989 Poland
Natalia Pamula
ISBN: 9780252049903

University of Illinois Press
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(101) The Roots of Cooperation: Constructing Interstate Alliances in Ancient Greece
Nicholas Cross
ISBN: 9780472222681

University of Michigan Press
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(102) The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy
Dyan Elliott
ISBN: 9781512830453

University of Pennsylvania Press
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