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(1) A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden): Selected Writings
Li Zhi. Edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline Lee, and Haun Saussy
ISBN: 9780231166133
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination
Gaurav Desai
ISBN: 9780231164559
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Post-Communist Sinology in Transformation: Views from the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia
Edited by Chih-yu Shih
ISBN: 9789629966942
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) The Arab City: Architecture and Representation
Edited by Amale Andraos and Nora Akawi
ISBN: 9781941332146
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) The Empress and the Heavenly Masters: A Study of the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493)
Luk Yu-ping
ISBN: 9789629966539
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(6) Of Elephants and Toothaches: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Decalogue'
Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani
ISBN: 9780823269273
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(7) America and the Politics of Insecurity:
Andrew Rojecki
ISBN: 9781421419602
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(8) The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution
Lorri Glover
ISBN: 9781421420028
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(9) Drafting the Irish Free State Constitution
Laura Cahillane
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9511-9
View at publisher (Manchester University Press)


(10) Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
Edited by Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim; Contributions by Brenda M. Boyle, Jeehyun Lim, Yen Le Espiritu, Quan Tue Tran, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lan Duong, Vin
ISBN: 9780813579931
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(11) American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11
James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf
ISBN: 9781439908211
View at publisher (Temple University Press)


(12) In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
Dan J. Puckett
ISBN: 9780817358686
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(13) Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts
by Pamela M. Potter (Author)
ISBN: 9780520282346
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(14) Contesting Indochina: French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War
by M. Kathryn Edwards (Author)
ISBN: 9780520288614
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(15) The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America
by Johannes von Moltke (Author)
ISBN: 9780520290945
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(16) Exploring the World of J. S. Bach: A Traveler’s Guide
Robert L. Marshall and Traute M. Marshall
ISBN: 978-0-252-04031-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(17) The British Army of the Rhine: Turning Nazi Enemies into Cold War Partners
Peter Speiser
ISBN: 978-0-252-04016-0
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(18) Younger Than That Now: The Politics of Age in the 1960s
Holly V. Scott
ISBN: 9781625342171
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(19) Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91
Branislav Jakovljevic
ISBN: 9780472053148
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(20) Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33
Deborah Ascher Barnstone
ISBN: 9780472119905
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(21) Persecution and Rescue: The Politics of the “Final Solution” in France, 1940-1944
Wolfgang Seibel
ISBN: 9780472118601
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(22) When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry
Scott Kugle
ISBN: 9781469626772
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(23) In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse
Daryl Cumber Dance
ISBN: 9780813938448
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(24) The Specter of Races: Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars
Anke Birkenmaier
ISBN: 9780813938783
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(25) Being Cowlitz: How One Tribe Renewed and Sustained Its Identity
Christine Dupres
ISBN: 9780295995571
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(26) Bhupen Khakhar: You Can't Please All
Chris Dercon, Nada Raza
ISBN: 9780295998121
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(27) California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History
William J. Bauer, Jr.
ISBN: 9780295998350
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(28) Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Andrew J. Jolivette
ISBN: 9780295998503
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(29) Hamka’s Great Story: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam For Modern Indonesia
James R. Rush
ISBN: 978-0-299-30840-7
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(30) Emancipation of the Polish Peasantry
Kieniewicz, Stefan
ISBN: 9780226435268
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(31) Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
Abrevaya Stein, Sarah
ISBN: 9780226368221
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(32) Foucault and the Kamasutra: The Courtesan, the Dandy, and the Birth of Ars Erotica as Theater in India
Gautam, Sanjay K.
ISBN: 9780226348445
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(33) Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa
Steingo, Gavin
ISBN: 9780226362540
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(34) Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria
Kendhammer, Brandon
ISBN: 9780226369037
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(35) Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang
Cliff, Tom
ISBN: 9780226360133
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(36) Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
Cave, Peter
ISBN: 9780226367866
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(37) Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World
Desjarlais, Robert
ISBN: 9780226355870
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(38) The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651
Turner, Henry S.
ISBN: 9780226363356
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(39) The Deaths of Henri Regnault
Gotlieb, Marc
ISBN: 9780226276045
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(40) Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England before the Civil War
Paretsky, Sara
ISBN: 9780226337746
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(41) Aid Under Fire: Nation Building and the Vietnam War
Jessica Elkind
ISBN: 9780813165837
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(42) Eisenhower and Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War
William J. Rust
ISBN: 9780813167428
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)