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(1) A Theory of Imperialism
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik. With a commentary from David Harvey and a foreword by Akeel Bilgrami
ISBN: 9780231179799
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(2) Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites: Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution
Edited by Elazar Barkan and Karen Barkey
ISBN: 9780231169950
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(3) Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey
Anne Mendelson
ISBN: 9780231158602
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(4) Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East, With a new preface
Irene L. Gendzier
ISBN: 9780231152891
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(5) Reading the Mahāvamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History
Kristin Scheible
ISBN: 9780231171380
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(6) Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays: Selections
Gu Yanwu. Translated and edited by Ian Johnston
ISBN: 9780231170482
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(7) Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic
Blake Atwood
ISBN: 9780231178174
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(8) Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda
Xiaomei Chen
ISBN: 9780231166386
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(9) The Bhāgavata Purāna: Selected Readings
Ravi M. Gupta and Kenneth R. Valpey
ISBN: 9780231169011
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(10) Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Janet Neary
ISBN: 9780823272907
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(11) The Selected Essays of Sean O'Faolain
Brad Kent
ISBN: 9780773547773
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(12) The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola
Milagros Ricourt
ISBN: 9780813584478
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(13) Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums
Caitlin Gordon-Walker
ISBN: 9780774831659
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(14) Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums
Caitlin Gordon-Walker
ISBN: 9780774831666
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(15) Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche
by Karol Berger (Author)
ISBN: 9780520292758
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(16) Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2: Geographical and Administrative Designations
by Hua Linfu (Author), Paul D. Buell (Author), Paul U. Unschuld (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520291966
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(17) The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs
by Saida Hodzic (Author)
ISBN: 9780520291997
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(18) "Our Aim Was Man": Andrew's Sharpshooters in the American Civil War
Edited by Roberta Senechal de la Roche
ISBN: 9781625342485
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(19) Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s
Edited by Carolyn Bronstein and Whitney Strub
ISBN: 9781625342263
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(20) "The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances": The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Edited by Eugene O'Brien
ISBN: 9780268100209
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(21) A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, "Shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter
Jeremy Cohen
ISBN: 9780812248586
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(22) The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context
Shai Secunda / Yitz Landes
ISBN: 9780812223736
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(23) A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
John Patrick Leary
ISBN: 9780813939155
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(24) A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet: Khyentse Chenmo of Gongkar
David P. Jackson. With Contributions by Mathias Fermer
ISBN: 9780991224111
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(25) Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan
Philip Hu, Rhiannon Paget, Sebastian Dobson, Maki Kaneko, Sonja Hotwagner, and Andreas Marks
ISBN: 9780295999814
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(26) The Road to Home Rule: Anti-imperialism and the Irish National Movement
Paul A. Townend
ISBN: 978-0-299-31070-7
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(27) Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
ISBN: 978-0-299-31104-9
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(28) Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
Cole, Jennifer
ISBN: 9780226405155
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(29) Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
Beer, Gillian
ISBN: 9780226041506
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(30) Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion
Barkan, Leonard
ISBN: 9780226010663
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(31) Big Bosses: A Working Girl’s Memoir of Jazz Age America
Altemus, Althea McDowell
ISBN: 9780226423623
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(32) Building a New Educational State: Foundations, Schools, and the American South
Malczewski, Joan
ISBN: 9780226394626
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(33) Cherubino’s Leap: In Search of the Enlightenment Moment
Kramer, Richard
ISBN: 9780226377896
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(34) Christianity and Race in the American South: A History
Harvey, Paul
ISBN: 9780226415352
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(35) Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan
Amin, Shahid
ISBN: 9780226372600
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(36) Dining Out in Boston: A Culinary History
O'Connell, James C.
ISBN: 9781611689105
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(37) Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860
Roberts, Kyle B.
ISBN: 9780226388144
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(38) Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
Narayan, Kirin
ISBN: 9780226407562
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(39) Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
Curry, Helen Anne
ISBN: 9780226790862
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(40) Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
LaChance, Daniel
ISBN: 9780226066691
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(41) Fernand Léger: Painting in Space
Baudin, Katia
ISBN: 9783777425948
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(42) In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Schlögel, Karl
ISBN: 9781941792087
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(43) Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire
Koga, Yukiko
ISBN: 9780226412139
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(44) Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration
Pinto, Karen C.
ISBN: 9780226126968
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(45) Memories of a Bygone Age: Qajar Persia and Imperial Russia 1853-1902
Arfa, Prince
ISBN: 9781909942868
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(46) Mothers on the Move: Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe
Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela
ISBN: 9780226389882
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(47) Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900
Janes, Dominic
ISBN: 9780226358642
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(48) Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
Starecheski, Amy
ISBN: 9780226399942
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(49) Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society
Pacewicz, Josh
ISBN: 9780226402697
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(50) Provisional Authority: Police, Order, and Security in India
Jauregui, Beatrice
ISBN: 9780226403700
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(51) Raising Secular Jews: Yiddish Schools and Their Periodicals for American Children, 1917–1950
Kadar, Naomi Prawer
ISBN: 9781611689877
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(52) Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
Jones, Matthew L.
ISBN: 9780226411460
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(53) Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol: An Anthology of Early European Portrayals of the Buddha
Lopez Jr., Donald
ISBN: 9780226391236
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(54) That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration
Shapiro, Alan
ISBN: 9780226416953
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(55) The Aerial Crossroads of America: St. Louis’s Lambert Airport
Rust, Daniel L.
ISBN: 9781883982898
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(56) The Old-Time Saloon: Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History
Ade, George
ISBN: 9780226412306
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(57) The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich
Trümpi, Fritz
ISBN: 9780226760261
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(58) The Prague of Charles IV, 1316 - 1378
Royt, Jan
ISBN: 9788024631325
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(59) The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship
Hariman, Robert
ISBN: 9780226342931
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(60) The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews
Samuels, Maurice
ISBN: 9780226677323
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(61) The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method
Olick, Jeffrey K.
ISBN: 9780226386492
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(62) Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Greene, Jeremy A.
ISBN: 9780226390871
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(63) Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music
Hutchinson, Sydney
ISBN: 9780226405469
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(64) Twenty-Six Things: A Time Travel Through Switzerland
Museum, Swiss National
ISBN: 9783858817808
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(65) Zurich University of the Arts-Toni Campus
Schiller, Janine
ISBN: 9783858817662
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(66) A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson
Edited by Shannon L. Mariotti and Joseph H. Lane Jr.
ISBN: 9780813167763
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(67) Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
Kevin Brianton
ISBN: 9780813168920
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