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(1) A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
Edited by Elena Furlanetto and Dietmar Meinel
ISBN: 9783837641325
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(2) Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016
Aarthi Vadde
ISBN: 9780231180252
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(3) The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. Foreword by Elias Khoury. Afterword by Jacqueline Rose.
ISBN: 9780231182973
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(4) The Tale of Cho Ung: A Classic of Vengeance, Loyalty, and Romance
Translated by Sookja Cho
ISBN: 9780231186117
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(5) Transatlantic Speculations: Globalization and the Panics of 1873
Hannah Catherine Davies
ISBN: 9780231185561
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(6) Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War
Rebecca A. Adelman
ISBN: 9780823281688
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(7) Only in New York: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City
Sam Roberts
ISBN: 9780823281077
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(8) People's Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism
Sarasij Majumder
ISBN: 9780823282418
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(9) Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age
edited by Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnellforeword by Daniel K. Richter
ISBN: 9781421426563
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(10) In Search of Russian Modernism:
Leonid Livak
ISBN: 9781421426419
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(11) A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
Scott Dill
ISBN: 9780814213834
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(12) Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology
Irving Massey
ISBN: 9780814213797
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(13) Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions
Annabel L. Kim
ISBN: 9780814213841
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(14) Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize
Melissa A. Johnson
ISBN: 9780813596983
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(15) It Will Yet Be Heard: A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival
Leon Thorne; Edited by Daniel Magilow and Emanuel Thorne; Preface by Isaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN: 9781978801653
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(16) Open Your Hand: Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American
Ilana Blumberg
ISBN: 9781978800816
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(17) Sam Steele: A Biography
Rod Macleod
ISBN: 9781772123791
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(18) A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community
by Jarrett Zigon (Author)
ISBN: 9780520297708
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(19) Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey
by Wendy A. Vogt (Author)
ISBN: 9780520298552
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(20) Mortal Doubt: Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City
by Anthony W. Fontes (Author)
ISBN: 9780520297098
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(21) The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan
by William W. Kelly (Author)
ISBN: 9780520299429
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(22) Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border
by Ieva Jusionyte (Author)
ISBN: 9780520297180
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(23) Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany
Jacob M. Baum
ISBN: 978-0-252-04219-5
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(24) Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Edited by Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain
ISBN: 978-0-252-04223-2
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(25) Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism
Edited by Marcial Gonzalez & Carlos Gallego
ISBN: 9780472073955
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(26) Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment
Edited by Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino
ISBN: 9781496206794
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(27) Bourbon and Bullets: True Stories of Whiskey, War, and Military Service
John C. Tramazzo Foreword by Fred Minnick
ISBN: 9781640121034
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(28) Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism
Malka Z. Simkovich
ISBN: 9780827612655
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(29) Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military: The Court-Martial and the Construction of Gender and Sexual Deviance, 1950–2000
Kellie Wilson-Buford
ISBN: 9780803296855
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(30) Queering Kansas City Jazz: Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene
Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
ISBN: 9780803262911
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(31) The Land of Truth: Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
ISBN: 9780827613089
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(32) Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures
Gloria Elizabeth Chacón
ISBN: 9781469636795
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(33) From the Cast-Iron Shore: In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning
Francis Oakley
ISBN: 9780268104023
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(34) Guatemala's Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968
Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval
ISBN: 9780268104412
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(35) Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary
Nadège T. Clitandre
ISBN: 9780813941868
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(36) In the Red and in the Black: Debt, Dishonor, and the Law in France between Revolutions
Erika Vause
ISBN: 9780813941417
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(37) Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990
Stephen H. Whiteman, Sarena Abdullah, Yvonne Low, Phoebe Scott
ISBN: 9780909952921
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(38) Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India
Sonja Thomas
ISBN: 9780295743844
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(39) African Science: Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin
Douglas J. Falen
ISBN: 9780299318901
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(40) Last Days of Theresienstadt
Eva Noack-MosseTranslated by Skye Doney and Biruté Ciplijauskaité
ISBN: 9780299319601
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(41) America, Compromised
Lessig, Lawrence
ISBN: 9780226316536
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(42) Asia Through Nordic Eyes: Fifty Years of Nordic Scholarship on Asia
Helgesen, Geir
ISBN: 9788776942724
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(43) Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory
Brown, Wendy
ISBN: 9780226597270
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(44) Black and White Bioscope: Making Movies in Africa 1899 to 1925
Parsons, Neil
ISBN: 9781783209439
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(45) Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in Honour of Martin Stuart-Fox
Goldston, Desley
ISBN: 9788776942540
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(46) Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome
Long, Pamela O.
ISBN: 9780226591285
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(47) Ethics through Literature: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture
Stock, Brian
ISBN: 9781584656999
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(48) Germany’s Ancient Pasts: Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700
Maner, Brent
ISBN: 9780226593074
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(49) Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo
Eller, Jack David
ISBN: 9781780239866
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(50) Islam and World History: The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
Burke, Edmund
ISBN: 9780226584782
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(51) Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History
Ferris, Marcie
ISBN: 9781584655893
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(52) Michelangelo’s Sculpture: Selected Essays
Steinberg, Leo
ISBN: 9780226482576
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(53) Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel
Kreilkamp, Ivan
ISBN: 9780226576374
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(54) Receptive Bodies
Bersani, Leo
ISBN: 9780226579764
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(55) Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy: Politics and Law in the Early American Republic
Lomazoff, Eric
ISBN: 9780226579450
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(56) Shakespeare’s Lyric Stage: Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays
Lerer, Seth
ISBN: 9780226582542
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(57) Song Walking: Women, Music, and Environmental Justice in an African Borderland
Impey, Angela
ISBN: 9780226538013
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(58) The Culinary Crescent: A History of Middle Eastern Cuisine
Heine, Peter
ISBN: 9781909942257
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(59) The Good Brexiteers Guide to English Lit
Sutherland, John
ISBN: 9781780239927
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(60) The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
Baum, Emily
ISBN: 9780226558240
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(61) The Mourning After: Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men
Ibson, John
ISBN: 9780226576688
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(62) The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science
Barton, Ruth
ISBN: 9780226551616
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(63) Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Someday, Chicago
Alinder, Jasmine
ISBN: 9780985096083
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(64) Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era
Edited by Diane Mutti Burke, Jason Roe and John Herron
ISBN: 9780700627066
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(65) Mend: Poems
Kwoya Fagin Maples
ISBN: 9780813176277
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)