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(1) A People's History of India 31: The National Movement, Part 2: The Struggle for Freedom, 1919–1947
Irfan Habib
ISBN: 9788194126010
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(2) An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal
Poulomi Saha
ISBN: 9780231192095
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(3) Confucianism and Sacred Space: The Confucius Temple from Imperial China to Today
Chin-shing Huang. Translated by Jonathan Chin with Chin-shing Huang
ISBN: 9780231198974
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(4) Defying Death: Struggles Against Imperialism and Feudalism
Maya Gupt and Amit Kumar Gupta
ISBN: 9788194126003
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(5) Kingly Splendor: Court Art and Materiality in Han China
Allison R. Miller
ISBN: 9780231196604
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(6) Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture
Shengqing Wu
ISBN: 9780231192217
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(7) Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Laura Moretti
ISBN: 9780231197236
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(8) Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English
Kumkum Sangari
ISBN: 9788185229454
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(9) The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Edited by Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh
ISBN: 9780231199216
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(10) Ulysses by Numbers
Eric Bulson
ISBN: 9780231186056
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(11) Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other World-Class Histories
Lisa Björkman
ISBN: 9780924304934
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(12) Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the Media of Sociality
Becky L. Schulthies
ISBN: 9780823289721
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(13) Infrapolitical Passages: Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation, and the Post-Sovereign State
Gareth Williams
ISBN: 9780823289899
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(14) Passing Orders: Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare
S. Jonathon O'Donnell
ISBN: 9780823289684
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(15) World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics
J. Daniel Elam
ISBN: 9780823289806
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(16) Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization, Subversion, and Change
Nevin Reda; Yasmin Amin
ISBN: 9780228001638
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(17) Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire
Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva
ISBN: 9780228001744
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(18) Comics and the Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability
Eszter Szép
ISBN: 9780814214541
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(19) Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina
Natasha Zaretsky
ISBN: 9781978807426
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(20) Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism
Anke Birkenmaier; Contributions by Anke Birkenmaier, Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Edward Chamberlain, Jorge Duany, Jossianna Arroyo, Vivian Halloran, Yolanda Marti
ISBN: 9781978814493
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(21) Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
Ana-Maurine Lara
ISBN: 9781978816497
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(22) The Complexity of Evil: Perpetration and Genocide
Timothy Williams
ISBN: 9781978814295
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(23) Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music
by Lisa Cooper Vest (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344242
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(24) Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook
by Nimrod Hurvitz (Editor), Christian C. Sahner (Editor), Uriel Simonsohn (Editor), Luke Yarbrough (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520296732
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(25) God Rock, Inc.: The Business of Niche Music
by Andrew Mall (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343429
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(26) Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex
by Katherine Manthorne (Author)
ISBN: 9780520355507
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(27) The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana
by Amanda L. Logan (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343757
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(28) Chen Yi:
Leta E. Miller and J. Michele Edwards
ISBN: 978-0-252-04354-3
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(29) Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement
Tiffany N. Florvil
ISBN: 978-0-252-04351-2
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(30) Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists
Wazhmah Osman
ISBN: 978-0-252-04355-0
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(31) Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
Kimberly Mack
ISBN: 9781625345509
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(32) Thoreau beyond Borders: New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer
Edited by François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls and Julien Nègre
ISBN: 9781625345561
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(33) Founding Factions: How Majorities Shifted and Aligned to Shape the U.S. Constitution
Jeremy C Pope & Shawn Treier
ISBN: 9780472132225
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(34) From Multiculturalism to Democratic Discrimination: The Challenge of Islam and the Re-emergence of Europe’s Nationalism
Alberto Spektorowski & Daphna Elfersy
ISBN: 9780472132164
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(35) The Politics of Military Force: Antimilitarism, Ideational Change, and Post-Cold War German Security Discourse
Frank A Stengel
ISBN: 9780472132218
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(36) Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Bronwyn Reddan
ISBN: 9781496216151
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(37) Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast
Patricia E. Rubertone
ISBN: 9781496217554
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(38) The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City
Scott D. Seligman
ISBN: 9781640123588
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(39) The Violin Players
Eileen Bluestone Sherman
ISBN: 9780827615175
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(40) Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way
Mical Raz
ISBN: 9781469661216
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(41) Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: Mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente
Maria del Carmen Caña Jiménez
ISBN: 9781469661711
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(42) Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach
Jamin Wells
ISBN: 9781469660905
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(43) The Art of Memory: An Ethnographer's Journey
Stefano Varese; Margaret Randall; Lynn Stephen
ISBN: 9781469661681
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(44) Urgencias del latinoamericanismo en tiempos de globalizacion conflictiva: Tributo a John Beverley
Elizabeth Monasterios Perez
ISBN: 9781945234576
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(45) The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World
Nicole D. Legnani
ISBN: 9780268108960
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(46) The Jewish Body: A History
Robert Jütte; Translated by Elizabeth Bredeck
ISBN: 9780812252651
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(47) The Quebec Connection: A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures
Julie-Françoise Tolliver
ISBN: 9780813944883
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(48) Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma
Lisa M. Hoffman and Mary L. Hanneman
ISBN: 9780295748221
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(49) Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
Jarmila Ptáčková
ISBN: 9780295748191
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(50) Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands
Will Smith. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295748160
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(51) Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake
Diane C. Fujino
ISBN: 9780295748269
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(52) Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality
Cameron D. Lippard, J. Scott Carter, David G. Embrick, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
ISBN: 9780295747996
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(53) The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea
Hwisang Cho
ISBN: 9780295747811
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(54) The Unsung Great: Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans
Greg Robinson
ISBN: 9780295747965
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(55) Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor: 48 Stories for Fritz Bauer
Kluge, Alexander
ISBN: 9781803091365
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(56) Congress in Reverse: Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present
Ragusa, Jordan M.
ISBN: 9780226717470
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(57) Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries
Chapman, Alison A.
ISBN: 9780226729299
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(58) Exotic Switzerland?: Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment
Étienne, Noémie
ISBN: 9783035802276
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(59) Giorgione’s Ambiguity
Nichols, Tom
ISBN: 9781789142976
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(60) Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist
Israëls, Machtelt Brüggen
ISBN: 9781789143218
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(61) Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History
Edelstein, Dan
ISBN: 9780226481623
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(62) Queer Budapest, 1873–1961
Kurimay, Anita
ISBN: 9780226705798
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(63) Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics
Stephens-Dougan, LaFleur
ISBN: 9780226698984
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(64) Russia as Empire: Past and Present
Boterbloem, Kees
ISBN: 9781789142914
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(65) She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers
Franklin, Mary
ISBN: 9780866986236
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(66) States of Exception in American History
Gerstle, Gary
ISBN: 9780226712321
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(67) The Economic Other: Inequality in the American Political Imagination
Condon, Meghan
ISBN: 9780226691879
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(68) The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700
Rampling, Jennifer M.
ISBN: 9780226710709
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(69) The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
Hirschkind, Charles
ISBN: 9780226746951
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(70) The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics
Ugurlu, A. Hilâl
ISBN: 9781789383027
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(71) The Lyric Now
Longenbach, James
ISBN: 9780226716046
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(72) The Opening of the American Mind: Ten Years of The Point
The Point,
ISBN: 9780226738710
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(73) The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Sigel, Lisa Z.
ISBN: 9781789142266
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(74) The Victoria History of Leicestershire: Ibstock
Fisher, Pamela J.
ISBN: 9781912702466
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(75) Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality
Cleves, Rachel Hope
ISBN: 9780226733531
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(76) Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival
Dimock, Wai Chee
ISBN: 9780226477107
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(77) Angry Politics: Partisan Hatred and Political Polarization among College Students
Stacy G. Ulbig
ISBN: 9780700630226
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(78) The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents
Damon Bach
ISBN: 9780700630103
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(79) Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction
M. Elizabeth Ginway
ISBN: 9780826501172
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(80) Francisco de Paula Brito: A Black Publisher in Imperial Brazil
Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi; Translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill
ISBN: 9780826500168
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