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(1) Myth, Text and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Narrative Reading of the World
Beate Pongratz-Leisten
ISBN: 9781009629348
Cambridge University Press
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(2) The Archaic and Early Classical Greek World: Using Coins as Sources
Keith Rutter
ISBN: 9781009434041
Cambridge University Press
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(3) The Judgment of the Provinces: The Roman Empire and the Origins of Law and Society
Ari Z. Bryen
ISBN: 9781009730341
Cambridge University Press
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(4) Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic
Catherine Steel; Lewis Webb
ISBN: 9781009691864
Cambridge University Press
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(5) Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States
Samantha Iyer
ISBN: 9780231215039
Columbia University Press
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(6) Art and Imagination: Mongolian Buddhist Texts and Rituals
Vesna A. Wallace and Uranchimeg Tsultemin
ISBN: 9780231194792
Columbia University Press
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(7) Eyes of the Sky
Syaman Rapongan. Translated by Kyle Shernuk
ISBN: 9780231211710
Columbia University Press
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(8) Holocaust Literature and Ego Documents: Literary and Historiographical Approaches
Edited by Éva Kovács, Gerald Lamprecht, Olaf Terpitz, and Marianne Windsperger
ISBN: 9783837678840
Columbia University Press
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(9) Jimmy Carter and China: Multilateral Competition in the Global Cold War
Sheng Peng
ISBN: 9780231211956
Columbia University Press
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(10) Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press
A. J. Bauer
ISBN: 9780231218368
Columbia University Press
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(11) Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War
Augusta Dell'Omo
ISBN: 9780231215893
Columbia University Press
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(12) The Battle for Georgia: Defense Reform, NATO Doctrine, and Military Effectiveness. A Critical Assessment of the 2008 War
Frederic Labarre. Foreword by Ambassador Marques-Guedes
ISBN: 9783838220611
Columbia University Press
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(13) The Lavender Bans: A Century of Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies in the US Military
Dorian Rhea Debussy
ISBN: 9780231205757
Columbia University Press
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(14) The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left
Edited by Jim Harding. Contributions by Bob Bossin, Joan Kuyek, and Dimitrios Roussopoulos
ISBN: 9781773638034
Columbia University Press
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(15) The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11
Nathaniel Greenberg
ISBN: 9780231215961
Columbia University Press
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(16) The Political System of Post-Soviet Ukraine: Constitutional Ramifications, Key Institutions, and Political Practices of the Independent Ukrainian State, 1991–2023
Edited by Galyna Zelenko. Foreword by Oleg Rafalskiy
ISBN: 9783838220970
Columbia University Press
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(17) The Traitor: A Novel
Abe Kōbō. Translated by Mark Gibeau
ISBN: 9780231212953
Columbia University Press
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(18) Anatomy of Torture
Ron E. Hassner
ISBN: 9781501786792
Cornell University Press
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(19) Beyond the Elite: Everyday Jewish Lives in Medieval Northern Europe
Edited by Elisheva Baumgarten
ISBN: 9781501785382
Cornell University Press
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(20) Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology
William Carruthers
ISBN: 9781501786754
Cornell University Press
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(21) Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations
Emily Conroy-Krutz
ISBN: 9781501786778
Cornell University Press
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(22) Rogue States: The Making of America's Global War on Terror
Matthew A. Frakes
ISBN: 9781501785726
Cornell University Press
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(23) Servants of God, Slaves of the Church: Service as Religious Metaphor and Social Reality in Early Medieval Europe
Lisa Kaaren Bailey
ISBN: 9781501785757
Cornell University Press
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(24) 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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(25) Transatlantic Storms in Anglo-American Relations: How the Alliance Weathers Crises
William D. James and Greg Kennedy, Editors
ISBN: 9781647126810
Georgetown University Press
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(26) Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens
David Stuttard
ISBN: NA
Harvard University Press
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(27) The Idea of China: A Contested History
Xu Guoqi
ISBN: NA
Harvard University Press
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(28) The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Adrian Masters
ISBN: NA
Harvard University Press
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(29) Histories of Disability in Latin America
edited by Heather Vrana and David Carey Jr.
ISBN: 9781421454054
Johns Hopkins University Press
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(30) The Politics of the Table: Nutrition and the Body in Modern Germany
Kristen Ann Ehrenberger
ISBN: 9781421454122
Johns Hopkins University Press
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(31) The Great Energy Transition: America from 1876 to 1929
by David E. Nye
ISBN: 9780262052122
MIT Press
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(32) Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution
by Rahul Mukherjee
ISBN: 9780262552714
MIT Press
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(33) On Retirement: How Aging is Transforming American Lives
Daniel Horowitz
ISBN: 9781479841219
New York University Press
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(34) Adenauer's Heirs: The CDU/CSU from Détente to Reunification
Ronald J. Granieri
ISBN: 9780195387377
Oxford University Press
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(35) After the Broken Spears: The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest
Camilla Townsend; Josh Anthony
ISBN: 9780197776179
Oxford University Press
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(36) Body Size in Early Modern Germany
Holly Fletcher
ISBN: 9780198972969
Oxford University Press
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(37) Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California
David-James Gonzales
ISBN: 9780197839454
Oxford University Press
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(38) British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
W. J. Mander
ISBN: 9780198876489
Oxford University Press
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(39) Byzantine Historical Writing
James Howard-Johnston
ISBN: 9780198938996
Oxford University Press
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(40) Divisions of Law: Legal Science in the Iuris Universi Distributio of Jean Bodin
Daniel Lee; Jason Aaron Brown
ISBN: 9780198810483
Oxford University Press
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(41) Epicurus’ Human Beings: Beyond Person and Self
Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi
ISBN: 9780192874962
Oxford University Press
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(42) Inventing Immortality: Heterodoxy and Histories of the Soul in Early Enlightenment England
Michelle Pfeffer
ISBN: 9780198989202
Oxford University Press
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(43) Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service
Harry C. Merritt
ISBN: 9780198970842
Oxford University Press
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(44) Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach
Ryan Calo
ISBN: 9780197526132
Oxford University Press
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(45) Making Food Empires: German Technology and Global Mass Production, 1870–1914
Stefan Manz; Uwe Spiekermann
ISBN: 9780198966951
Oxford University Press
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(46) Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus

ISBN: 9780198883678
Oxford University Press
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(47) Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926
Jonathan Schneer
ISBN: 9780192894533
Oxford University Press
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(48) On Strategists and Strategy: Collected Essays, 2014-2024
Lawrence Freedman
ISBN: 9780197814659
Oxford University Press
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(49) Revenge in Seneca's Tragedies: Anger, Philosophy, and the Feminine
Basil L. P. Nelis
ISBN: 9780198993278
Oxford University Press
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(50) Revolution and Counterrevolution on the Russian–Ottoman Border: Wallachia in 1848
James Morris
ISBN: 9780198987284
Oxford University Press
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(51) Science and Religion in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis: The Quest for the Best Mental Model of the Universe
Alister E. McGrath
ISBN: 9780198982791
Oxford University Press
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(52) Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765: Essential Readings
Julia Jorati
ISBN: 9780197833292
Oxford University Press
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(53) The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume V: Divorce Tracts
Sharon Achinstein
ISBN: 9780199234493
Oxford University Press
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(54) The Design of Montaigne's Essais
Vittoria Fallanca
ISBN: 9780198985488
Oxford University Press
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(55) The Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs
Christopher A. Pool; Carl J. Wendt
ISBN: 9780190900304
Oxford University Press
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(56) The Roman Arch: Architecture, Politics, and the Commemoration of Victory in Rome (196 BCE to 43 CE)
Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta
ISBN: 9780197815076
Oxford University Press
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(57) Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Province
Robin Fleming
ISBN: 9780198938941
Oxford University Press
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(58) Thomas More: A Very Short Introduction
Peter Marshall
ISBN: 9780192843173
Oxford University Press
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(59) Toward a Philosophy of Error in Science
Douglas Allchin
ISBN: 9780197827673
Oxford University Press
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(60) Translation and the Truth of History: Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes
José María Pérez Fernández
ISBN: 9780192865946
Oxford University Press
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(61) Victorian Architecture
Prof G.A. Bremner
ISBN: 9780198835394
Oxford University Press
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(62) Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years
Paula Fredriksen
ISBN: 9780691266411
Princeton University Press
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(63) Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes
Nabil Ali
ISBN: 9780691278216
Princeton University Press
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(64) I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition
Yair Mintzker
ISBN: 9780691272702
Princeton University Press
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(65) Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
Beth Linker
ISBN: 9780691235516
Princeton University Press
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(66) Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
Timothy J. Jorgensen
ISBN: 9780691283975
Princeton University Press
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(67) The Active Imagination: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1931
C. G. Jung
ISBN: 9780691256009
Princeton University Press
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(68) The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea
David N. Livingstone
ISBN: 9780691236728
Princeton University Press
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(69) The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya
David Stuart
ISBN: 9780691213842
Princeton University Press
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(70) The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism
Durba Mitra
ISBN: 9780691233604
Princeton University Press
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(71) The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us
Benjamin Recht
ISBN: 9780691272443
Princeton University Press
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(72) Venice and the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World
Nicola Di Cosmo and Lorenzo Pubblici
ISBN: 9780691256245
Princeton University Press
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(73) A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan
by Sayaka Chatani, with KumHee Cho
ISBN: 9781503636
Stanford University Press
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(74) Beyond the Stadium: How Sports Change the World
Andrew Bertoli
ISBN: 9781503645
Stanford University Press
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(75) Colorblind: Racial Thinking and Cultural Production in Modern Iran and the Diaspora
Amy Motlagh
ISBN: 9781503636
Stanford University Press
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(76) Currency of Nihilism
Amin Samman
ISBN: 9781503645
Stanford University Press
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(77) Nahmanides: An Intellectual Biography
Oded Yisraeli
ISBN: 9781503639
Stanford University Press
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(78) 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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(79) We the Voters: The Constitutional Choices That Shape America's Elections
Lori A. Ringhand
ISBN: 9781503645
Stanford University Press
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(80) Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom
Mithi Mukherjee
ISBN: 9780520425828
University of California Press
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(81) Environmental Sociology Now
Jordan Fox; Ian Carrillo; J. P. Sapinski; Diana Stuart
ISBN: 9780520421257
University of California Press
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(82) Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue

ISBN:
University of California Press
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(83) Humans: A Monstrous History

ISBN:
University of California Press
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(84) 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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(85) 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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(86) Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s
Stein, Marc
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(87) Given Time II
Derrida, Jacques
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(88) How to Read Hegel Now
Hoff, Shannon
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(89) 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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(90) 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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(91) Mao’s Final Legacies and the Sino–Vietnamese War, 1971–79
Wang, Chenyi
ISBN: 9780774872546
University of Chicago Press
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(92) Medieval Prague
Royt, Jan
ISBN: 9788024661230
University of Chicago Press
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(93) No Country for Travellers?: British Visitors to Spain and Portugal, 1760–1820
Sweet, Rosemary
ISBN: 9781800088726
University of Chicago Press
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(94) 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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(95) Phantom Byzantium: Europe, Empire, and Identity from Late Antiquity to World War II
Kaldellis, Anthony
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(96) Raising the Floor: Federalism and the Politics of US Minimum Wage Policy
Rose, Shanna
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University of Chicago Press
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(97) The Fates of Central Europe Between Hitler and Stalin: Selected Writings of Josef Guttmann
Rupnik, Jacques
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University of Chicago Press
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(98) 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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(99) This Is a True War Story: My Improbable History with Vietnam
Brigham, Robert
ISBN: 9780226846880
University of Chicago Press
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(100) 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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(101) White Care: The Impact of Race on American Infrastructure
Seiler, Cotten
ISBN:
University of Chicago Press
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(102) Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City's Labor Unions
Jane LaTour
ISBN: 9780252049514
University of Illinois Press
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(103) For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman
Cathryn J. Prince
ISBN: 9780252049552
University of Illinois Press
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(104) Power and Powerlessness
John Gaventa
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University of Illinois Press
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(105) Religion After the Gods: Edwin H. Wilson and the American Humanist Association
John S. Haller Jr.
ISBN: 9780252049583
University of Illinois Press
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(106) 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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(107) Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus
Emma Warhover
ISBN: 9780472133680
University of Michigan Press
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(108) Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic
Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe
ISBN: 9780472057993
University of Michigan Press
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(109) We Rode the Rhythms as One: On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight
Norman Minnick
ISBN: 9780472040162
University of Michigan Press
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(110) 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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(111) 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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(112) Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
Brent Cebul
ISBN: 9781512829716
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(113) The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
Aaron Sullivan
ISBN: 9781512829693
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(114) The Hundred Years War, Volume 5: Triumph and Illusion
Jonathan Sumption
ISBN: 9781512826777
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(115) 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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(116) Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
Kathleen M. Brown
ISBN: 9781512829723
University of Pennsylvania Press
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(117) People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas
Rebecca Sharpless
ISBN: 9781477333327
University of Texas Press
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(118) The Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City
Elena McGrath
ISBN: 9781477333297
University of Texas Press
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(119) Revolutionary Natures: Grassroots Environmental Histories of China's Mao Era
Micah S. Muscolino
ISBN: 9780295754383
University of Washington Press
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(120) Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, Shearwaters, and the View from Destruction Island
Eric Wagner
ISBN: 9780295754611
University of Washington Press
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(121) A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare
Marjorie Garber
ISBN: 9780300282825
Yale University Press
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(122) Every Journey Matters: Moving London into the 21st Century
Sam Mullins
ISBN: 9781917976022
Yale University Press
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(123) Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
ISBN: 9780300288612
Yale University Press
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(124) King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency
Paul Blustein
ISBN: 9780300288469
Yale University Press
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(125) Nuclear Weapons: An International History
David Holloway
ISBN: 9780300229448
Yale University Press
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(126) The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes
Jessica Trisko Darden
ISBN: 9780300278439
Yale University Press
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(127) The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
Caroline Sharples
ISBN: 9780300284911
Yale University Press
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(128) The Most Crooked River in the World: The Waters of the Kankakee and the Nature of Time
Jon T. Coleman
ISBN: 9780300265804
Yale University Press
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(129) The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 3: Encountering Christianity and Islam, 600-1200
Edited by Arnold E. Franklin
ISBN: 9780300186277
Yale University Press
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(130) Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash
Douglas Metoxen Kiel
ISBN: 9780300269826
Yale University Press
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(131) Walking Europe's Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains
Nick Thorpe
ISBN: 9780300286915
Yale University Press
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(132) Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science
David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
ISBN: 9780300263480
Yale University Press
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