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New books from university presses

(1) A Brief Modern Chinese History
Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai
ISBN: 9783838214412
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(2) A Companion to The Story of the Stone: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide
Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung
ISBN: 9780231199452
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(3) A Constitution of the People and How to Achieve It: What Bosnia and Britain Can Learn From Each Other
Aarif Abraham
ISBN: 9783838215167
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(4) A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection
Avram Alpert
ISBN: 9780231200035
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(5) Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War?: Dimensions and Interpretations of the Donbas Conflict in 2014–2020
Edited by Jakob Hauter. Foreword by Andrew Wilson
ISBN: 9783838213835
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(6) Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf
Jim Krane
ISBN: 9780231179317
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(7) Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China
Nicole Willock
ISBN: 9780231197076
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(8) NATO’s Enlargement and Russia: A Strategic Challenge in the Past and Future
Edited by Oxana Schmies. Foreword by Vladimir Kara-Murza
ISBN: 9783838214788
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(9) Operation Danube Reconsidered: The International Aspects of the Czechoslovak 1968 Crisis
Edited by Jakub Drábik. Foreword by Peter Bielik
ISBN: 9783838215549
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(10) Post-Soviet Secessionism: Nation-Building and State-Failure after Communism
Edited by Daria Isachenko, Mykhailo Minakov and Gwendolyn Sasse
ISBN: 9783838215389
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(11) Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm: Geographies of Ethnicity and Nationality After 1991
Edited by Zsolt Bottlik, Márton Berki, and Steven Jobbitt
ISBN: 9783838213996
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(12) The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar
Yury Tynyanov. Translated by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush
ISBN: 9780231193870
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(13) The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation
JaHyun Kim Haboush. Edited by William J. Haboush and Jisoo M. Kim
ISBN: 9780231172295
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(14) The Little Devil and Other Stories
Alexei Remizov. Translated by Antonina W. Bouis
ISBN: 9780231183819
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(15) The Rhetoric of Women’s Humour in Barbara Pym’s Fiction
Naghmeh Varghaiyan
ISBN: 9783838215037
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(16) Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific
Howard Chiang
ISBN: 9780231190978
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(17) Ukraine vs. Darkness: (Undiplomatic Thoughts)
Olexander Scherba. Foreword by Adrian Karatnycky
ISBN: 9783838215013
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(18) Unbinding The Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic
Gergana Ivanova
ISBN: 9780231187992
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(19) On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China
Emily Sun
ISBN: 9780823294794
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(20) Before the Raj: Writing Early Anglophone India
James Mulholland
ISBN: 9781421439617
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(21) The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: 8-Volume Set
T. S. EliotRonald Schuchard, General Editor
ISBN: 9781421441061
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(22) Louisiana Coushatta Basket Makers: Traditional Knowledge, Resourcefulness, and Artistry as a Means of Survival
Linda Langley and Denise E. Bates
ISBN: 9780807171240
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(23) The Irish tower house: Society, economy and environment, c. 1300-1650
Victoria L. McAlister
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5593-1
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(24) Governance, Conflict, and Natural Resources in Africa: Understanding the Role of Foreign Investment Actors
Hany Gamil Besada
ISBN: 9780228005445
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(25) Restless History: Political Imaginaries and Their Discontents in Post-Stalinist Bulgaria
Zhivka Valiavicharska
ISBN: 9780228005834
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(26) This Strange Loneliness: Heaney's Wordsworth
Peter Mackay
ISBN: 9780228005728
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(27) Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
Dara Rossman Regaignon
ISBN: 9780814214695
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(28) Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces
Cecily Raynor
ISBN: 9781684482566
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(29) The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation
Amy K. Kaminsky; SUNY Press Open Access; SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
ISBN: 9781438483290
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(30) Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art
Joanna Page
ISBN: 9781787359765
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(31) The Pinochet Generation: The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century
John R. Bawden; Introduction by John R. Bawden
ISBN: 9780817360245
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(32) History of Ukraine-Rus': Volume 2. The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
Mykhailo Hrushevsky; Edited by Christian Raffensperger, Frank E. Sysyn, and Tania Plawuszczak-Stech; Translated by Ian Press
ISBN: 9781894865586
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(33) Magician of Sound: Ravel and the Aesthetics of Illusion
by Jessie Fillerup (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379886
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(34) Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art
by Jordana Moore Saggese (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383340
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(35) Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
by Amanda Phillips (Author)
ISBN: 9780520303591
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(36) Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam
by Merav Shohet (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379381
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(37) Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
ISBN: 9780472054275
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(38) Lakota Texts: Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Translated and analyzed by Regina Pustet
ISBN: 9780803237353
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(39) Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition
Eric Williams; William A. Darity Jr.; Colin A. Palmer
ISBN: 9781469663685
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(40) Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
Susan Burch
ISBN: 9781469661629
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(41) Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America
Jonathan Todd Hancock
ISBN: 9781469662183
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(42) Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Dale W. Tomich; Reinaldo Funes Monzote; Carlos Venegas Fornias; Rafael de Bivar Marquese
ISBN: 9781469663128
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(43) The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer
Mario Filho; Jack A. Draper III
ISBN: 9781469637006
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(44) : January-October, 1770
Thomas Hutchinson. Edited by John W. Tyler and Margaret A. Hogan
ISBN: 9781734540109
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(45) Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer
Toby Jurovics, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa Strong, Kristine K. Ronan, and Annika K. Johnson
ISBN: 9781735441641
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(46) Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor
Juned Shaikh
ISBN: 9780295748504
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(47) The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874
Robert T. Boyd
ISBN: 9780295749181
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(48) Accidental Pluralism: America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662
Haefeli, Evan
ISBN: 9780226742618
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(49) All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey
Schwarzenbach, Annemarie
ISBN: 9780857420152
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(50) An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton
Syrett, Nicholas L.
ISBN: 9780226761558
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(51) Boston’s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
Bagley, Joseph M.
ISBN: 9781684580392
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(52) Eutopia: Studies in Cultural Euro-Welshness, 1850–1980
Thomas, M. Wynn
ISBN: 9781786836144
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(53) Fragile Finitude: A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology
Fishbane, Michael
ISBN: 9780226764153
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(54) Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South
Farquhar, Judith
ISBN: 9780226763651
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(55) Home Is Where We Are
Gungwu, Wang
ISBN: 9789813251328
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(56) Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Hirsch, Arnold R.
ISBN: 9780226728513
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(57) Modern Sovereign: The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon)
Tonda, Joseph
ISBN: 9780857426888
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(58) Peindre contre le crime
Kirchner, Thomas
ISBN: 9782735127078
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(59) Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
Wellerstein, Alex
ISBN: 9780226020389
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(60) Rubens’s Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius
Marr, Alexander
ISBN: 9781789143997
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(61) Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War
Aronova, Elena
ISBN: 9780226761381
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(62) Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII
Roberts, Mary Louise
ISBN: 9780226753140
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(63) The Chastity Plot
During, Lisabeth
ISBN: 9780226741468
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(64) The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita
Engels, Jeremy David
ISBN: 9780226746029
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(65) The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Freedman, Jonathan
ISBN: 9780226581088
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(66) The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
Schrenk, Lisa D.
ISBN: 9780226318943
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(67) The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism: The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment
Lepistö, Antti
ISBN: 9780226774046
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(68) The Social Life of the Early Modern Protestant Clergy
Eales, Jacqueline
ISBN: 9781786837141
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(69) Three Lectures on Leonardo
Warburg, Aby
ISBN: 9781908590930
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(70) Tibet: A History Between Dream and Nation-State
Klieger, Paul Christiaan
ISBN: 9781789144024
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(71) Titian’s "Rape of Europa"
Silver, Nathaniel
ISBN: 9781913645007
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(72) Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions
Sword, Kirsten
ISBN: 9780226757483
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(73) Zurich Transit
Frisch, Max
ISBN: 9781906497637
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(74) Getting Right with Lincoln: Correcting Misconceptions about Our Greatest President
Edward Steers Jr.
ISBN: 9780813180908
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(75) Racing for America: The Horse Race of the Century and the Redemption of a Sport
James C. Nicholson
ISBN: 9780813180649
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(76) The Notorious John Morrissey: How a Bare-Knuckle Brawler Became a Congressman and Founded Saratoga Race Course
James C. Nicholson
ISBN: 9780813180991
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(77) History and Modern Media: A Personal Journey
John Mraz
ISBN: 9780826501448
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