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(1) Courtesans and Opium: Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou
Anonymous. Translated by Patrick Hanan
ISBN: 9780231148238
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(2) Faithful to Secularism: The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines
David T. Buckley
ISBN: 9780231180061
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(3) The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China
Shang Yang. Edited and translated by Yuri Pines
ISBN: 9780231179881
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(4) The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World
Ho-fung Hung
ISBN: 9780231164191
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama
Edited by J. Thomas Rimer, Mitsuya Mori, and M. Cody Poulton
ISBN: 9780231128315
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(6) The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Guobin Yang
ISBN: 9780231149655
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(7) The Banality of Heidegger
Jean-Luc Nancy; Translated by Jeff Fort
ISBN: 9780823275939
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(8) Days of Slaughter: Inside the Fall of Freddie Mac and Why It Could Happen Again
Susan Wharton Gates
ISBN: 9781421421933
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(9) Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect?
Edited by Andrew W. M. Smith and Chris Jeppesen
ISBN: 9781911307730
View at publisher (UCL Press)


(10) Beyond "Understanding Canada": Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
Edited by Melissa Tanti, Jeremy Haynes, Daniel Coleman, and Lorraine York
ISBN: 9781772122695
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(11) Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
by Naomi Haynes (Author)
ISBN: 9780520294257
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(12) Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 1: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Edited by Michael J. Pfeifer
ISBN: 978-0-252-04080-1
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(13) My Brother's Keeper: George McGovern and Progressive Christianity
Mark A. Lempke
ISBN: 9781625342775
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(14) Nuclear Freeze in a Cold War: The Reagan Administration, Cultural Activism, and the End of the Arms Race
William M. Knoblauch
ISBN: 9781625342751
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(15) Remember Little Rock
Erin Krutko Devlin
ISBN: 9781625342690
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(16) Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat
Edited by Micah A. Pawling
ISBN: 9781625342898
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(17) Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage
Heather Nathans
ISBN: 9780472130306
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(18) Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics
Jeremiah Unterman
ISBN: 9780827612709
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(19) The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging
Kristina M. Jacobsen
ISBN: 9781469631868
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(20) Modern Arabic Poetry: Revolution and Conflict
Waed Athamneh
ISBN: 9780268101541
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(21) Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland
Edited by Jim Smyth
ISBN: 9780268101749
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(22) The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture
Richard Barlow
ISBN: 9780268101015
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(23) The Uplift Generation: Cooperation across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia
Clayton McClure Brooks
ISBN: 9780813939490
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(24) City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions
Chuck Wooldridge
ISBN: 9780295741741
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(25) Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, and Jean Michaud
ISBN: 9780295741734
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(26) God's Little Daughters: Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria
Ji Li
ISBN: 9780295741758
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(27) James Mongrain in the George R. Stroemple Collection: Reinterpreting Venetian Tradition
Sheldon Barr and Linda Tesner
ISBN: 9780997249231
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(28) Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Coll Thrush. Foreword by William Cronon
ISBN: 9780295741345
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(29) The Drunken Man's Talk: Tales from Medieval China
Luo Ye, Alister D. Inglis
ISBN: 9780295741765
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(30) The Han: China's Diverse Majority
Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi
ISBN: 9780295741789
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(31) The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
Alden Jones
ISBN: 978-0-299-29574-5
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(32) A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability
May, Todd
ISBN: 9780226439952
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(33) Building Histories: The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi
Rajagopalan, Mrinalini
ISBN: 9780226283470
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(34) Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS
Cheney, Kristen E.
ISBN: 9780226437545
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(35) Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge
Gennari, John
ISBN: 9780226428321
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(36) Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography
Engel, Amir
ISBN: 9780226683324
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(37) History as a Kind of Writing: Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography
Carrard, Philippe
ISBN: 9780226427966
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(38) Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
Rios, Victor M.
ISBN: 9780226090993
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(39) Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
Harper, Kristine C.
ISBN: 9780226437231
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(40) Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994
Clarno, Andy
ISBN: 9780226430096
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(41) O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music
Gant, Andrew
ISBN: 9780226469621
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(42) Pagan Christmas: Winter Feasts of the Kalasha of the Hindu Kush
Cacopardo, Augusto S.
ISBN: 9781909942844
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(43) Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
Hornsby, Stephen J.
ISBN: 9780226386041
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(44) Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
Colwell, Chip
ISBN: 9780226684444
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(45) Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories
Gibbons, Reginald
ISBN: 9780226290584
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(46) Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help
Jou, Chin
ISBN: 9780226921921
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(47) That Which Is Not Drawn: In Conversation
Kentridge, William
ISBN: 9780857421753
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(48) The Asian Trade Revolution: The East India Companies and the Decline of the Caravan Trade
Steensgaard, Niels
ISBN: 9780226771458
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(49) The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War Two’s Unknown Tragedy
Kean, Hilda
ISBN: 9780226318325
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(50) The Hindu Tantric World: An Overview
Padoux, André
ISBN: 9780226424095
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(51) The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Marcon, Federico
ISBN: 9780226479033
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(52) The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science
Sayre, Nathan F.
ISBN: 9780226083254
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(53) These Immortal Creations: An Anthology of British Romantic Poetry
Hunt, Sylvia
ISBN: 9780995029194
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(54) Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History
Mikhail, Alan
ISBN: 9780226427171
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(55) Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929
Gebhardt, Nicholas
ISBN: 9780226448695
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(56) Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850
Cocks, H. G.
ISBN: 9780226438665
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(57) Visualizing Portuguese Power: The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)
Krass, Urte
ISBN: 9783037347423
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(58) Modernity and the Great Depression: The Transformation of American Society, 1930-1941
Kenneth J. Bindas
ISBN: 9780700624003
View at publisher (University Press of Kansas)


(59) A Rape in the Early Republic: Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial
Alexander Smyth
ISBN: 9780813169521
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)