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New books from university presses

(1) Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust, anniversary edition
Ira Katznelson
ISBN: 9780231197892
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(2) How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes: Strategies of Political Domination Under Ukraine’s Presidents in 1994–2014
Oksana Huss. Foreword by Tobias Debiel and Andrea Gawrich
ISBN: 9783838214306
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Michael Christopher Low
ISBN: 9780231190770
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: Special Section: Russian Foreign Policy Towards the "Near Abroad" Volume 6, No. 2 (2020)
Edited by George Soroka, Tomasz Stępniewski, Gergana Dimova, Andreas Umland, and Julie Fedor
ISBN: 9783838214665
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(5) The Russian Path: Ideas, Interests, Institutions, Illusions
Dmitry Travin, Vladimir Gel’man, and Otar Marganiya. Foreword by Vladimir Ryzhkov
ISBN: 9783838214214
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(6) White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide
Dylan Rodríguez
ISBN: 9780823289394
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(7) No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for Adults
Michelle Ann Abate
ISBN: 9781421438863
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(8) An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile
Melissa Diane Armstrong
ISBN: 9780228003304
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(9) Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century
Alyson K. Spurgas
ISBN: 9780814214510
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(10) Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain
Paula Derdiger
ISBN: 9780814214527
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(11) Romanticism’s Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability
John Savarese
ISBN: 9780814214503
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(12) Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies
Edited by Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka
ISBN: 9780814214398
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(13) Challenging the Black Atlantic: The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves
John T. Maddox IV
ISBN: 9781684481866
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(14) Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians
Courtney Szto
ISBN: 9781978807938
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(15) Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Edited by Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková; Contributions by Eliyana R. Adler, Natalia Aleksiun, Viktoria Banyai, Laura Hobson Faure, Robin Judd, Dali
ISBN: 9781978819504
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(16) Johnson in Japan
Edited by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki; Foreword by Greg Clingham; Contributions by Hideichi Eto, Noriyuki Harada, Yuri Yoshino, Miki Iwata, Noriyuki Hatto
ISBN: 9781684482412
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(17) Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual
Nathan Abrams
ISBN: 9780813587110
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(18) Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation
Waleed F. Mahdi
ISBN: 9780815636816
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(19) Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina
Eric D. Carter
ISBN: 9780817356927
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(20) A White Lie
Madeeha Hafez Albatta; Edited by Barbara Bill and Ghada Ageel
ISBN: 9781772124927
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(21) Carleton Watkins: Making the West American
by Tyler Green (Author)
ISBN: 9780520377530
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(22) Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
by Nicola Pratt (Author)
ISBN: 9780520281769
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(23) Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China
by Nicholas Bartlett (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344136
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(24) Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan
by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344495
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(25) The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion
by Shana Klein (Author)
ISBN: 9780520296398
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(26) Wastelands: Recycled Commodities and the Perpetual Displacement of Ashkali and Romani Scavengers
by Eirik Saethre (Author)
ISBN: 9780520368514
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(27) Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
David Henig
ISBN: 978-0-252-04329-1
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(28) Kissing Fidel: A Memoir of Cuban American Terrorism in the United States
Magda Montiel Davis
ISBN: 9781609387266
View at publisher (University of Iowa Press)


(29) A Sound History: Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial
Steven P. Garabedian
ISBN: 9781625345301
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(30) For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy
Michael Brenes
ISBN: 9781625345226
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(31) The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America
Josephine Donovan
ISBN: 9781625345448
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(32) Marking Modern Movement: Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic
Susan Funkenstein
ISBN: 9780472054619
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(33) Performance in the Zócalo: Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present
Ana Martínez
ISBN: 9780472132096
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(34) Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937
Sidney Fine
ISBN: 9780472037841
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(35) The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa
Carolyn Holmes
ISBN: 9780472054633
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(36) Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy
Guenter Lewy
ISBN: 9780827615038
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(37) Mass Murder in California's Empty Quarter: A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cedarville Rancheria
Ray A. March
ISBN: 9781496217561
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(38) Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
Linda Heidenreich
ISBN: 9781496213402
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(39) Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960
Liza Black
ISBN: 9780803296800
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(40) Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene
Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale A. Zappia
ISBN: 9781496205094
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(41) The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas
Robert M. Utley
ISBN: 9781496220226
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(42) Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960
Julia María Schiavone Camacho
ISBN: 9781469664101
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(43) Edición y comunismo: Cultura impresa, educación militante y prácticas políticas (México, 1930-1940)
Sebastián Rivera Mir
ISBN: 9781945234781
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(44) Entertaining Entrepreneurs: Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times
Daniel Horowitz
ISBN: 9781469662602
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(45) Knowledge, Science, and Literature in Early Modern Germany
Gerhild Scholz Williams; Stephan K. Schindler
ISBN: 9781469656465
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(46) Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil
John D. French
ISBN: 9781469655765
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(47) Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community
Jodi Eichler-Levine
ISBN: 9781469660639
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(48) Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World
Zachary Valentine Wright
ISBN: 9781469660820
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(49) That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing
Julia S. Charles
ISBN: 9781469659572
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(50) The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fé
William Collins Donahue
ISBN: 9781469657424
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(51) The Haitians: A Decolonial History
Jean Casimir; Laurent Dubois; Walter D. Mignolo
ISBN: 9781469660486
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(52) The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Sharika D. Crawford
ISBN: 9781469660219
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(53) Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925
David Monod
ISBN: 9781469660554
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(54) March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ISBN: 9780268102661
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(55) The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity
Benjamin Schreier
ISBN: 9780812252576
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(56) Further Adventures on the Journey to the West
Master of Silent Whistle Studio. Translated by Qiancheng Li and Robert E. Hegel . Introduction by Qiancheng Li
ISBN: 9780295747729
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(57) The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
Sienna R. Craig
ISBN: 9780295747699
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(58) The Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan Reader: Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History
Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, David Schaberg
ISBN: 9780295747750
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(59) Totem Pole Carving: Norman Tait, Bringing a Log to Life
Vickie Jensen
ISBN: 9780295745329
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(60) Art Nouveau Prague
Wittlich, Petr
ISBN: 9788024642932
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(61) Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters
Primo, David M.
ISBN: 9780226712949
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(62) Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England
Harrison, Timothy M.
ISBN: 9780226725123
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(63) Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America
Woloson, Wendy A.
ISBN: 9780226824079
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(64) Diener & Diener Architects—Housing
Steinmann, Martin
ISBN: 9783038601852
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(65) Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology
Otter, Chris
ISBN: 9780226697109
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(66) From Old Regime to Industrial State: A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I
Tilly, Richard H.
ISBN: 9780226725437
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(67) Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
Robinson, Roxana
ISBN: 9781684580323
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(68) Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels: 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women
Moon, Katie J.
ISBN: 9781883982980
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(69) Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics
Brown, Michael J.
ISBN: 9780226718149
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(70) Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
Rozelle, Scott
ISBN: 9780226824017
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(71) Johannes Itten and Thun: Nature in Focus
Hirsch, Helen
ISBN: 9783777435725
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) Kairouan: or How Paul Klee Became a Painter
Hausenstein, Wilhelm
ISBN: 9783777435572
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France
McGrath, Larry Sommer
ISBN: 9780226699820
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(74) Mariano: Variations on a Theme | Variaciones sobre un tema
Thompson Goizueta, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9781892850416
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) Matisse: The Books
Lalaurie, Louise Rogers
ISBN: 9780226750545
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays
Sergi, Matthew
ISBN: 9780226709239
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore
Schley, David
ISBN: 9780226720258
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Stefan Forster Architekten: Housing 1989–2019
Forster, Stefan
ISBN: 9783038601807
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel
Zhang, Dora
ISBN: 9780226722528
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Reitter, Paul
ISBN: 9780226754574
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(81) The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
Schultz, John
ISBN: 9780226760742
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(82) The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910
Johnson, Stephen
ISBN: 9780226740829
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(83) The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era
Curry, James M.
ISBN: 9780226716350
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(84) The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961: Scholars, Singers, Missionaries
Busse Berger, Anna Maria
ISBN: 9780226740348
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(85) Unite, Proletarian Brothers!: Radicalism and Revolution in the Spanish Second Republic
Kerry, Matthew
ISBN: 9781912702497
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(86) Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China
Der-wei Wang, David
ISBN: 9781684580262
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(87) The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation
Cristina Rivera Garza; Translated by Robin Myers
ISBN: 9780826501219
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)