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New books from university presses

(1) A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945
Ernst Jünger. Foreword by Elliot Neaman. Translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen.
ISBN: 9780231127417
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(2) A History of Cultic Images in China: The Domestic Statuary of Hunan
Alain Arrault. Translated by Lina Verchery
ISBN: 9789882371057
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(3) A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976: Revised Edition
Revised and Corrected Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia
ISBN: 9780231200554
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(4) China's Hong Kong: The Politics of a Global City
Tim Summers
ISBN: 9781788213332
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(5) Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Alexander Radishchev. Translated by Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman
ISBN: 9780231185912
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(6) Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Michael C. Davis
ISBN: 9781952636134
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(7) Ordinary Days: A Memoir
Leo Ou-fan Lee and Lee Yuk Ying. Translated by Annie Ren Luman and Carol Ong. Edited by John Minford
ISBN: 9789882371965
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(8) Radio Empire: The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel
Daniel Ryan Morse
ISBN: 9780231198370
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(9) Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
Nira Wickramasinghe
ISBN: 9780231197632
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(10) The Best China
Translated and edited by John Minford
ISBN: 9789882371972
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(11) Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography
Yuri Pines
ISBN: 9780231196635
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(12) Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality
Genevieve Yue
ISBN: 9780823289561
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(13) Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries
Ryan K. Smith
ISBN: 9781421439273
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(14) Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature
Mara de Gennaro
ISBN: 9781421439471
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(15) Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001
Kyle Riismandel
ISBN: 9781421439549
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(16) North American Gaels: Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora
Natasha Sumner; Aidan Doyle
ISBN: 9780228003793
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(17) Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy: A Theory of Greek Tragedy
Mario Telò
ISBN: 9780814214558
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(18) Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka
Michele Ruth Gamburd
ISBN: 9781978815308
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(19) Unsettling: Jews, Whiteness, and Incest in American Popular Culture
Eli Bromberg
ISBN: 9781978807242
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(20) Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico
by Maurice Rafael Magaña (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344624
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(21) Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania
by Adrienne E. Strong (Author)
ISBN: 9780520310704
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(22) Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Northern Uganda
by Philipp Schulz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520303744
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(23) The Analects: Conclusions and Conversations of Confucius
by Confucius (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343290
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(24) The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia
by Arash Khazeni (Author)
ISBN: 9780520289697
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(25) The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE
by Matthew P. Canepa (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379206
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(26) The Public Life of Cinema: Conflict and Collectivity in Austerity Greece
by Toby Lee (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379022
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(27) There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince
by Greg Beckett (Author)
ISBN: 9780520378995
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(28) Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora
Gina K. Velasco
ISBN: 978-0-252-04347-5
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(29) The Huawei Model: The Rise of China's Technology Giant
Yun Wen
ISBN: 978-0-252-04343-7
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(30) Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
ISBN: 9781609387402
View at publisher (University of Iowa Press)


(31) A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country
Clarence Jefferson Hall
ISBN: 9781625345363
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(32) Work Better, Live Better: Motivation, Labor, and Management Ideology
David A. Gray
ISBN: 9781625345349
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(33) Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Fumiko Miyazaki, and Noriko SUGANO
ISBN: 9780472054695
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(34) Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors
Denise Low and Ramon Powers
ISBN: 9781496215154
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(35) Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America
Richard W. Pointer
ISBN: 9781496222862
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(36) Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
Devon A. Mihesuah
ISBN: 9780803245259
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(37) Russian Colonization of Alaska: Baranov's Era, 1799–1818
Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv Translated by Richard L. Bland
ISBN: 9781496222169
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(38) The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel
Emmanuel Navon
ISBN: 9780827615069
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(39) China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II
Kelly A. Hammond
ISBN: 9781469659657
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(40) Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture
Emily J. H. Contois
ISBN: 9781469660745
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(41) Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720
James A. Parente Jr.; Richard Erich Schade; George C. Schoolfield
ISBN: 9781469656564
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(42) Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America
Elissa Zellinger
ISBN: 9781469659817
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(43) Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream
Swati Rana
ISBN: 9781469659473
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(44) The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature
Josh Doty
ISBN: 9781469659619
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(45) Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times
Michael A. Meyer
ISBN: 9780812252569
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(46) The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism
Adrienne Williams Boyarin
ISBN: 9780812252590
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(47) Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle
Daudi Abe. Foreword by Sir Mix-A-Lot
ISBN: 9780295747569
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(48) Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-developmental State
Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis, Stevan Harrell
ISBN: 9780295747910
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(49) Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
James Staples. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295747880
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(50) South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters
Elora Halim Chowdhury, Esha Niyogi De
ISBN: 9780295747859
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(51) Textiles in Burman Culture
Sylvia Fraser-Lu
ISBN: 9786162151637
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(52) Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy
Emma Christopher
ISBN: 978-0-299-31624-2
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(53) A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005
Turnbull, Constance
ISBN: 9789813251168
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(54) A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
Black, Jeremy
ISBN: 9780226755243
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(55) All the Tiny Moments Blazing: A Literary Guide to Suburban London
Pope, Ged
ISBN: 9781789143072
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(56) Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America
Schwartz, Stuart B.
ISBN: 9781684580194
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(57) Capitalism and Freedom
Friedman, Milton
ISBN: 9780226734798
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(58) Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection
SoRelle, Mallory E.
ISBN: 9780226711799
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(59) Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography
Cohen-Skalli, Cedric
ISBN: 9781684580231
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(60) Fat: New and Uncollected Prose
Di Piero, W. S.
ISBN: 9780887486623
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(61) Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics
Simmel, Georg
ISBN: 9780226621098
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(62) How the Tea Party Captured the GOP: Insurgent Factions in American Politics
Blum, Rachel M.
ISBN: 9780226687520
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(63) Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
Alexy, Allison
ISBN: 9780226700953
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(64) Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership
Cohen, Naomi W.
ISBN: 9780874519488
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(65) Jean Otth: Works 1964–2013
Schweizer, Nicole
ISBN: 9783858818553
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(66) Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond
Tilley, Leslie A.
ISBN: 9780226667607
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(67) Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar
Morton, Michael Quentin
ISBN: 9781789143119
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(68) Mbira’s Restless Dance: An Archive of Improvisation
Berliner, Paul F.
ISBN: 9780226626277
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(69) Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey Collection
Pappe, Bernd
ISBN: 9783777436098
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(70) Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia
Robinson, Kathryn M.
ISBN: 9789813251205
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(71) Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species
Andrei, Mary Anne
ISBN: 9780226730318
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(72) Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy
Pearce, Trevor
ISBN: 9780226719917
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(73) Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality
Dworkin, Craig
ISBN: 9780226743561
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(74) Rome, 1630: The Horizon of the Early Baroque, Followed by Five Essays on Seventeenth-Century Art
Bonnefoy, Yves
ISBN: 9780857425966
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(75) The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures
Jacobs, Justin M.
ISBN: 9780226712017
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(76) The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps
Maier, Jessica
ISBN: 9780226591452
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(77) The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet
Tugendhaft, Aaron
ISBN: 9780226737560
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(78) the lives & times of hrh
Hochstadt, Herman
ISBN: 9789813251199
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(79) The Myth of the Imperial Presidency: How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive
Christenson, Dino P.
ISBN: 9780226704364
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(80) The Portable Byron
Byron, Geoge Gordon
ISBN: 9781988963310
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(81) The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry
Marshall, David L.
ISBN: 9780226722214
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(82) White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America
Herzberg, David
ISBN: 9780226731889
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(83) Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo
Elyssa Ford
ISBN: 9780700630318
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(84) Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism
Joe William Trotter Jr.
ISBN: 9780813180700
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(85) Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico
Lydia Z. Dixon
ISBN: 9780826501134
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