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New books from university presses

(1) Cultures of Economy in South-Eastern Europe: Spotlights and Perspectives
Edited by Jurij Murašov, Davor Beganović, and Andrea Lešić
ISBN: 9783837650266
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(2) Fandango and Other Stories
Alexander Grin. Translated by Bryan Karetnyk
ISBN: 9780231189774
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(3) In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South
Nicholas Jepson
ISBN: 9780231187978
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(4) Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge: Two Memoirs About Courtesans
Mao Xiang and Yu Huai. Translated and edited by Wai-yee Li
ISBN: 9780231186858
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(5) Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity
Stefani Engelstein
ISBN: 9780231180412
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(6) Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
Edited by Jiang Wu and Lucille Chia
ISBN: 9780231171618
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(7) The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism
Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Juno Jill Richards
ISBN: 9780231194570
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(8) The Mingjia and Related Texts: Essentials in the Understanding of the Development of Pre-Qin Philosophy
Translated by Ian Johnston and Wang Ping
ISBN: 9789629967772
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(9) The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature: Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation
Lisa Ahrens
ISBN: 9783837647693
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(10) Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading
Erin Graff Zivin
ISBN: 9780823286812
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(11) Decadent Orientalisms: The Decay of Colonial Modernity
David Fieni
ISBN: 9780823286393
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(12) Technologies of Critique
Willy Thayer; Translated by John Kraniauskas
ISBN: 9780823286737
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(13) Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology: New Directions in Econarratology
Edited by Erin James and Eric Morel
ISBN: 9780814214206
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(14) The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo
ISBN: 9780814214213
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(15) Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
Edited by Sean Guynes and Martin Lund
ISBN: 9780814214183
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(16) Vaccine Rhetorics
Heidi Yoston Lawrence
ISBN: 9780814214336
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(17) Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India
Rama Srinivasan
ISBN: 9781978803534
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(18) Global Mental Health: Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations
Edited by Javier I Escobar; Contributions by Stanley Nkemjika, Humberto Marin, Miwa Yasui, Kathleen Pottick, Ethan Pearlstein, Maria Calvo, Eduardo Padilla
ISBN: 9780813595917
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(19) Intervention Narratives: Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror
Purnima Bose
ISBN: 9781978805989
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(20) Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina
Eva van Roekel
ISBN: 9781978800267
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(21) Race across America: Eddie Gardner and the Great Bunion Derbies
Charles B. Kastner
ISBN: 9780815610991
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(22) In the World of Stalinist Crimes: Ukraine in the Years of the Purges and Terror (1934–1938) from the Polish Perspective
Robert Kuśnierz
ISBN: 9781894865579
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(23) Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-day Saint Island Missions
David O. McKayEdited by Reid L. Neilson and Carson V. Teuscher
ISBN: 978-0-252-04285-0
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(24) Collecting the Globe: The Salem East India Marine Society Museum
George H. Schwartz
ISBN: 9781625344724
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(25) The Genealogical Sublime
Julia Creet
ISBN: 9781625344809
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(26) An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States
Michael S. Kochin & Michael Taylor
ISBN: 9780472054404
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(27) The Many Faces of Political Islam, Second Edition: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies
Mohammed Ayoob & Danielle Nicole Lussier
ISBN: 9780472037650
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(28) Zombie History: Lies About Our Past that Refuse to Die
Peter Charles Hoffer
ISBN: 9780472074525
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(29) Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era
Alison Rose Jefferson
ISBN: 9781496201300
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(30) National Pastimes: Cinema, Sports, and Nation
Katharina Bonzel
ISBN: 9781496215529
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(31) Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary
Tiffany A. Sippial
ISBN: 9781469654607
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(32) Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
Kirsten A. Greer
ISBN: 9781469649832
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(33) Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
Garrett Felber
ISBN: 9781469653822
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(34) Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965
Maddalena Marinari
ISBN: 9781469652931
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(35) Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
SherAli Tareen
ISBN: 9780268106706
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(36) Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship
Edited by Manuel Balán and Françoise Montambeault
ISBN: 9780268106577
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(37) Yountsville: The Rise and Decline of an Indiana Mill Town
Ronald V. Morris
ISBN: 9780268106614
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(38) Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe: Related Books
Paola Tartakoff
ISBN: 9780812251876
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(39) The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature
Anne Margaret Castro
ISBN: 9780813943442
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(40) Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean
Valérie Loichot
ISBN: 9780813943787
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(41) China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral
Anthony E. Clark. Foreword by Leland M. Roth
ISBN: 9780295746678
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(42) Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles
Maribeth Graybill
ISBN: 9781883124410
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(43) Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North
Coppélie Cocq and Thomas A. DuBois
ISBN: 9780295746609
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(44) Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination
Bertram D. Ashe, Ilka Saal
ISBN: 9780295746630
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(45) The Snow Leopard and the Goat: Politics of Conservation in the Western Himalayas
Shafqat Hussain. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295746579
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(46) Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe
Stephen H. Whiteman
ISBN: 9780295745800
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(47) Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Katherine A. Bowie
ISBN: 9780299309541
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(48) A Little Gay History of Wales
Leeworthy, Daryl
ISBN: 9781786834805
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(49) Douglas Hyde: My American Journey
Mac Mathúna, Liam
ISBN: 9781910820483
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(50) In Quest of History: On Czech Statehood and Identity
Pribán, Jirí
ISBN: 9788024642673
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(51) Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives
Parthasarathi, Prasannan
ISBN: 9781892850409
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(52) Mood and Trope: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect
Brenkman, John
ISBN: 9780226673264
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(53) Philosophy en noir
Petrícek, Miroslav
ISBN: 9788024638539
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(54) Science Policy under Thatcher
Agar, Jon
ISBN: 9781787353435
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(55) Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu
Garcia, Edgar
ISBN: 9780226659022
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(56) Soviet Design: From Constructivism To Modernism 1920–1980
Krasnyanskaya, Kristina
ISBN: 9783858818461
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(57) The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy
Berliner, Paul F.
ISBN: 9780226628684
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(58) The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories
Kelty, Christopher M.
ISBN: 9780226666761
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(59) The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture
Stewart, Susan
ISBN: 9780226792200
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(60) The Victoria History of Shropshire: Wem
Everard, Judith Ann
ISBN: 9781912702084
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(61) Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay
Gellman, Erik S.
ISBN: 9780226603926
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(62) Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970
Wade Davies
ISBN: 9780700629091
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(63) George Rogers Clark and William Croghan: A Story of the Revolution, Settlement, and Early Life at Locust Grove
Gwynne Tuell Potts
ISBN: 9780813178677
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(64) Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization: Also of Interest
Edited by Ivonne del Valle, Anna More and Rachel Sarah O'Toole
ISBN: 9780826522535
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