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New books from university presses

(1) A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa
M'hamed Oualdi
ISBN: 9780231191869
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(2) Alarums and Excursions: Improvising Politics on the European Stage
Luuk van Middelaar. Translated by Liz Waters
ISBN: 9781788212779
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(3) Imagined Economies - Real Fictions: New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain
Edited by Jessica Fischer and Gesa Stedman
ISBN: 9783837648812
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(4) Memories of Peking: South Side Stories
Lin Hai-yin. Translated by Nancy C. Ing and Chi Pang-yuan. Introduction by Peng Hsiao-yen.
ISBN: 9789882371293
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(5) Stating the Sacred: Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State
Michael J. Walsh
ISBN: 9780231193573
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(6) V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center
Sanjay Krishnan
ISBN: 9780231193320
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(7) Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad
Aaron Y. Zelin
ISBN: 9780231193771
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(8) Humbug!: The Politics of Art Criticism in New York City's Penny Press
Wendy Jean Katz
ISBN: 9780823285389
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(9) Britain and Africa:
Kenneth Kirkwood
ISBN: 9781421432311
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(10) Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States
Megan Eatman
ISBN: 9780814214343
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(11) False Documents: Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975–1992): Inter-American Cultural History, Literature, and the Lost Decade (1975–1992)
Frans Weiser
ISBN: 9780814214367
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(12) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence
Martin Bernal
ISBN: 9781978804296
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(13) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985
Martin Bernal
ISBN: 9781978804265
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(14) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume II: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence
Martin Bernal
ISBN: 9781978804272
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(15) Black Athena (3 vol set): The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
Martin Bernal
ISBN: 9781978810037
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(16) Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community
Edited by Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski; Contributions by Sylvia F. Abrams, Rachel Gordan, Samantha Baskind, Todd Michney, Shaul Kelner, Zohar Segev, M
ISBN: 9781978809949
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(17) Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations
Hye Seung Chung
ISBN: 9781978801554
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(18) Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany
Edited by Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng; Contributions by Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng
ISBN: 9781978800717
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(19) The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical
Warren Hoffman
ISBN: 9781978807112
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(20) Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms
by Ismael García-Colón (Author)
ISBN: 9780520325791
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(21) Drawing from Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China
by Christine I. Ho (Author)
ISBN: 9780520309623
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(22) Essays on Literature
by Thomas Carlyle (Author), Fleming McClelland (Author), Brent E. Kinser (Author), Chris Ramon Vanden Bossche (Author)
ISBN: 9780520339842
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(23) Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness
by Joshua O. Reno (Author)
ISBN: 9780520316027
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(24) Chicago Catolico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican
Deborah E. Kanter
ISBN: 978-0-252-04297-3
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(25) The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India
Jinee Lokaneeta
ISBN: 9780472074396
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(26) Different Strokes: Serena, Venus, and the Unfinished Black Tennis Revolution
Cecil Harris
ISBN: 9781496214652
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(27) All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
ISBN: 9781469659244
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(28) Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992
Teishan A. Latner
ISBN: 9781469659206
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(29) Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Susan Sleeper-Smith
ISBN: 9781469659169
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(30) Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music
John W. Troutman
ISBN: 9781469659091
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(31) The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
Shamoon Zamir
ISBN: 9781469659114
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(32) The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East
Kishwar Rizvi
ISBN: 9781469659121
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(33) Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture
Aneeka Ayanna Henderson
ISBN: 9781469651767
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(34) The Boys of St. Columb's: The Education of a New Ireland
Maurice Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780268107543
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(35) Armies and Societies in Southeast Asia
Volker Grabowsky, Frederik Rettig
ISBN: 9786162151545
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(36) Continuum: Native North American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gaylord Torrence, W. Richard West Jr., Stephanie Fox Knappe
ISBN: 9780997044652
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(37) Defining Dvāravatī
Anna Bennett, Hunter Watson
ISBN: 9786162151576
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(38) Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911
Claudia Brown
ISBN: 9780295747231
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(39) Impermanence: An Anthropologist of Thailand and Asia
Charles F. Keyes
ISBN: 9786162151385
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(40) La Raza
Colin Gunckel, Luis C. Garza, Amy Scott
ISBN: 9780895511652
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(41) Protecting Asia’s Heritage: Yesterday and Tomorrow
The Siam Society Under Royal Patronage
ISBN: 9786162151569
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(42) Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
Emily L. Moore
ISBN: 9780295747552
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(43) Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
Brad Evans, Aaron Glass, Bill Holm
ISBN: 9780295746951
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(44) The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019
Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaseñor Black
ISBN: 9780895511720
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(45) The Cycle of Life in the Paintings of Thai Artist Pichai Nirand
Philip Constable
ISBN: 9786162151552
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(46) Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, Mariam B. Lam, Kathy L. Nguyen
ISBN: 9780295747279
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(47) America’s Inequality Trap
Kelly, Nathan J.
ISBN: 9780226665504
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(48) Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland: From the Medieval to the Modern
Tuomi, Ilona
ISBN: 9781786834928
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(49) Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters via Southeast Asia
Hahn, H. Hazel
ISBN: 9789813250062
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(50) Existenz: Brigitte Waldach—Felix-Nussbaum-Haus
Museumsquartier der Stadt Osnabrück,
ISBN: 9783858816580
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(51) Imperfection. Atelier Stéphane Fernandez
Fernandez, Stéphane
ISBN: 9783038601678
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(52) Los Angeles Modernism Revisited: Houses by Neutra, Schindler, Ain and Contemporaries
Schreyer, David
ISBN: 9783038601616
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(53) Manfred Wakolbinger: Inhale—Exhale.—Sculptures, Photographs, Installations, Videos 2012–2019
Offergeld, Cornelia
ISBN: 9783858816542
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(54) Matisse—Metamorphoses
Kunsthaus Zürich,
ISBN: 9783858818362
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(55) Matisse—Metamorphoses: FRENCH-LANGUAGE EDITION
Kunsthaus Zürich,
ISBN: 9783858818409
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(56) Maud Gonne
Ferguson, Trish
ISBN: 9781910820247
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(57) Michele Melillo
Gnesa, Nicole
ISBN: 9783777433929
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(58) Nives Widauer: Villa Nix
Messmer, Dorothee
ISBN: 9783858816597
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(59) Now!: Painting in Germany Today
Berg, Stephan
ISBN: 9783777434476
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(60) Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History
Cmiel, Kenneth
ISBN: 9780226611853
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(61) Rommel: The End of a Legend
Reuth, Ralf Georg
ISBN: 9781912208227
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(62) The Aztecs
de Castro, Inés
ISBN: 9783777433783
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(63) The Early Ottoman Peloponnese: A Study in the Light of an Annotated Editio Princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460–1463)
Liakopoulos, Georgios C.
ISBN: 9781909942325
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(64) Living Quixote: Performative Activism in Contemporary Brazil and the Americas
Rogelio Minana
ISBN: 9780826522696
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(65) Sounds of the Citizens: Dancehall and Community in Jamaica
Anne M. Galvin
ISBN: 9780826519795
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