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New books from university presses

(1) Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident
Translated and with an introduction by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman Nakai, and Mark Teeuwen
ISBN: 9780231196918
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(2) Home/Fronts: Contemporary War in British Literature, Drama, and Film
Janina Wierzoch
ISBN: 9783837651874
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(3) Japan's New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific
Saori N. Katada 片田さおり
ISBN: 9780231190732
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(4) Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance
Victor McFarland
ISBN: 9780231197274
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(5) Savage Horrors: The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
Corinna Lenhardt
ISBN: 9783837651546
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(6) To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959
Xiaoyuan Liu
ISBN: 9780231195270
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(7) Weimar Controversies: Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer
Peter S. Fisher
ISBN: 9783837651461
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(8) Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined
Steven Collins. Edited by Justin McDaniel. Preface by Dan Arnold. Afterword by Charles Hallisey.
ISBN: 9780231197212
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(9) Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
Adam Grener
ISBN: 9780814214428
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(10) Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
José M Alamillo
ISBN: 9781978813663
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(11) Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps
Sarah Bunin Benor, Jonathan Krasner and Sharon Avni
ISBN: 9780813588735
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(12) Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality under American Rule
René Alexander D. Orquiza Jr.
ISBN: 9781978806412
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(13) The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture
Toby Miller; Contributions by Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo, Olga Lucia Sorzano, Anamaria Tamayo Duque, Marta Milena Barrios and Jesús Arroyave Cabrera
ISBN: 9781978817517
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(14) Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut
Ghassan Moussawi
ISBN: 9781439918500
View at publisher (Temple University Press)


(15) Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics
Matthew Mark Silver
ISBN: 9780817320621
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(16) Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile
by Loren D. Lybarger (Author)
ISBN: 9780520337619
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(17) The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, Second Edition: Contours in the Air
by Timothy Anglin Burgard (Editor), Daniell Cornell (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520304840
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(18) Werner Herzog:
Joshua Lund
ISBN: 978-0-252-04317-8
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(19) "For the Good of Their Souls": Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country
William B. Hart
ISBN: 9781625344953
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(20) Diseased States: Epidemic Control in Britain and the United States
Charles Allan McCoy
ISBN: 9781625345073
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(21) Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife
Kareem Khubchandani
ISBN: 9780472054213
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(22) Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism
Scott Magelssen
ISBN: 9780472054534
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(23) Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought
Aaron Koller
ISBN: 9780827614734
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(24) North Carolina Literary Review: Number 29, 2020
Margaret D. Bauer
ISBN: 9781469660028
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(25) Identity and Nationalism in Modern Argentina: Defending the True Nation
Jeane DeLaney
ISBN: 9780268107901
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(26) Patriots in Exile: Charleston Rebels in St. Augustine during the American Revolution
James Waring McCrady and C. L. Bragg
ISBN: 978-1-64336-079-9
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(27) Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
Pika Ghosh
ISBN: 9780295746999
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(28) Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture
Tim Harte
ISBN: 9780299327705
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(29) A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
Schabas, Margaret
ISBN: 9780226824024
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(30) Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism
Merjian, Ara H.
ISBN: 9780226655277
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(31) Angelica Kauffman
Baumgärtel, Bettina
ISBN: 9783777434629
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(32) Both from the Ears and Mind: Thinking about Music in Early Modern England
Austern, Linda Phyllis
ISBN: 9780226701592
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(33) Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury
Harris, Neil
ISBN: 9780226610870
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(34) Church State Corporation: Construing Religion in US Law
Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers
ISBN: 9780226454696
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(35) Exodus: A Graphic Novel
Shakine, Esther
ISBN: 9783777435534
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(36) Heinrich Knopf: Iron Society
Tesch, Jürgen B.
ISBN: 9783777434667
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(37) Japan: Courts and Culture
Peat, Rachel
ISBN: 9781909741683
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(38) Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century
Dorner, Zachary
ISBN: 9780226706801
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(39) Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis
Slotten, MD, Ross A.
ISBN: 9780226718767
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(40) Silvia Buol: Watercolors and Drawings
Tobler, Konrad
ISBN: 9783858816573
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(41) The Best-Read Army in the World
Guptill Manning, Molly
ISBN: 9781605830896
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(42) The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West
Padrón, Ricardo
ISBN: 9780226820019
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(43) TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS): Catalonia in Venice
Azara, Pedro
ISBN: 9788494423444
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(44) Vintage Advertising: An A to Z
Lambert, Julie Anne
ISBN: 9781851245406
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