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New books from university presses

(1) Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings
Deborah Frick
ISBN: 9783837656893
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(2) Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949
Christopher Rea
ISBN: 9780231188135
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Finding Ferrante: Authorship and the Politics of World Literature
Alessia Ricciardi
ISBN: 9780231200417
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(4) Found in Translation: "New People" in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction
Jing Jiang
ISBN: 9780924304941
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(5) From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991–2021
Edited by Matthew Rojansky, Georgiy Kasianov and Mykhailo Minakov
ISBN: 9783838215143
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(6) Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism
Yoshikuni Igarashi
ISBN: 9780231195553
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(7) Literary Information in China: A History
Edited by Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk
ISBN: 9780231195522
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(8) Russia's Recognition of the Independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Analysis of a Deviant Case in Moscow's Foreign Policy Behavior
Nikoloz Samkharadze. Foreword by Neil MacFarlane
ISBN: 9783838214146
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(9) Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union
Margarita M. Balmaceda
ISBN: 9780231197496
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(10) The Membranes: A Novel
Chi Ta-wei. Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
ISBN: 9780231195713
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(11) The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Leah DeVun
ISBN: 9780231195515
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(12) The Voice Over: Poems and Essays
Maria Stepanova. Edited by Irina Shevelenko
ISBN: 9780231196178
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(13) Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play
Translated and Introduced by Regina S. Llamas
ISBN: 9780231197939
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(14) Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016–2019
Marta Dyczok
ISBN: 9783838214726
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(15) Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West
Thomas M. Prymak
ISBN: 9780228005780
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(16) Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Susan E. Kirtley
ISBN: 9780814214572
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(17) Branding Brazil: Transforming Citizenship on Screen
Leslie L. Marsh
ISBN: 9781978819290
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(18) Life in a Cambodian Orphanage: A Childhood Journey for New Opportunities
Kathie Carpenter
ISBN: 9781978804845
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(19) Declaring Disaster: Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA
Timothy W. Kneeland
ISBN: 9780815611271
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(20) Songs of Sonderling: Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles, 1938–1945
Jonathan L. Friedmann and John F. Guest; Foreword by Nick Strimple
ISBN: 9781682830796
View at publisher (Texas Tech University Press)


(21) Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
Wayne Flynt; Foreword by Charles A. Israel and John Giggie
ISBN: 9780817360221
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(22) Card-Carrying Christians: Debt and the Making of Free Market Spirituality in Colombia
by Rebecca C. Bartel (Author)
ISBN: 9780520380028
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(23) Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean
by Megan A. Carney (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344518
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(24) Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places
by Laurel Kendall (Author)
ISBN: 9780520298675
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(25) The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem
by Kristin A. Wintersteen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379633
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(26) Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town
Jason Stacy
ISBN: 978-0-252-04383-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(27) Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa
Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
ISBN: 9780472054800
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(28) Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa
Wale Adebanwi & Rogers Orock
ISBN: 9780472054817
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(29) Ottoman Eurasia in Early Modern German Literature: Cultural Translations (Francisci, Happel, Speer)
Gerhild Scholz Williams
ISBN: 9780472132416
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(30) Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives
Edited by Adrianna Link, Abigail Shelton, and Patrick Spero
ISBN: 9781496224330
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(31) Thinking about Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity
Rabbi Wayne Allen
ISBN: 9780827614710
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(32) Blind Joe Death's America: John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent
George Henderson
ISBN: 9781469660783
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(33) Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba
Elizabeth B. Schwall
ISBN: 9781469662978
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(34) Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Finis Dunaway
ISBN: 9781469661100
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(35) Fine in the World: Lumbee Language in Time and Place
Walt Wolfram; Clare Dannenberg; Stanley Knick; Linda Oxendine
ISBN: 9781469661407
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(36) Los pre-textos de La Florida del Inca: Edición crítica, estudio preliminar y notas de José Miguel Martínez Torrejón
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega; José Miguel Martínez Torrejón
ISBN: 9781469665931
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(37) Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right
Benjamin A. Cowan
ISBN: 9781469662077
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(38) Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots
Laura Visser-Maessen
ISBN: 9781469666501
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(39) Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
Robert G. Parkinson
ISBN: 9781469662572
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(40) The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico
Jorge Téllez
ISBN: 9780268200176
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(41) Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism
Ross Brann
ISBN: 9780812252880
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(42) The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending: From the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746
James Knight. Edited by Jack P. Greene
ISBN: 9780813945569
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(43) Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism
Mark W. Hauser
ISBN: 9780295748726
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(44) Re-visualizing Slavery: Visual Sources about Slavery in Asia
Nancy Jouwe, Wim Manuhutu, Matthias van Rossum, Merve Tosun
ISBN: 9789460220111
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(45) Reppin': Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice
Keith L. Camacho
ISBN: 9780295748580
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(46) The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction
Olivia Milburn
ISBN: 9780295748757
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(47) The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority 
Emily Mokros
ISBN: 9780295748795
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(48) Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo
John M. Janzen
ISBN: 9780299325046
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(49) A Drop of Treason: Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA
Stevenson, Jonathan
ISBN: 9780226356686
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(50) Appalachia as Contested Borderland of the Early Modern Atlantic, 1528-1715
Borchard, Kimberly C.
ISBN: 9780866986328
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(51) Breathing: An Inspired History
Williams, Edgar
ISBN: 9781789143621
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(52) Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
Sewell Jr., William H.
ISBN: 9780226770468
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(53) Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia
Ray, Sandeep
ISBN: 9789813251380
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(54) Church and People in Interregnum Britain
McCall, Fiona
ISBN: 9781912702640
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(55) Colours of Congo: Patterns, Symbols and Narratives in 20th-Century Congolese Paintings
Knothe, Florian
ISBN: 9789887470731
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(56) Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918
Jenkins, Jeffery A.
ISBN: 9780226756363
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(57) Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France
Robcis, Camille
ISBN: 9780226777740
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(58) Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse (1872-1932)
Çelik, Zeynep
ISBN: 9786057685353
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(59) Follow Your Conscience: The Catholic Church and the Spirit of the Sixties
Cajka, Peter
ISBN: 9780226762050
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(60) Four Shakespearean Period Pieces
de Grazia, Margreta
ISBN: 9780226785226
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(61) Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation
Elias, Christopher M.
ISBN: 9780226823935
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(62) Guide for Design, Installation, and Assessment of Post-installed Reinforcements
Su, Ray K. L.
ISBN: 9789888528608
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(63) Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education
Blum, Lawrence
ISBN: 9780226786032
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(64) Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister
DiMeo, Michelle
ISBN: 9780226731605
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(65) Lions
Blumenberg, Hans
ISBN: 9780857424303
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(66) Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature
Breen, Katharine
ISBN: 9780226776590
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(67) Manet to Bracquemond:: Unknown Letters to an Artist and a Friend
Bouillon, Jean-Paul
ISBN: 9781912168170
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(68) Mute Pianos: Forty Years of Paintings by Yeung Tong Lung
Wong, Phoebe
ISBN: 9789887723998
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(69) Paulo Nazareth: Melee
Gartenfeld, Alex
ISBN: 9783777437323
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(70) Pictorial Silks: Chinese Textiles from the UMAG Collection
Lam, Kikki
ISBN: 9789887470717
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(71) Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion
Muir, Sarah
ISBN: 9780226752785
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(72) Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
Tinaz, Kerem
ISBN: 9786057685360
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(73) Singapore’s Building Stock: Approaches to a Multi-Scale Documentation and Analysis of Transformations
Hassler, Uta
ISBN: 9783777425405
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(74) Spare the Rod: Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools
Scribner, Campbell F.
ISBN: 9780226785707
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(75) The Performances of Sacred Spaces: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting
Battista, Silvia
ISBN: 9781789383874
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(76) The Western Disease: Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora
Decoteau, Claire Laurier
ISBN: 9780226772257
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(77) Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
Lvovsky, Anna
ISBN: 9780226769783
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(78) Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
Sivasundaram, Sujit
ISBN: 9780226790411
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(79) José Martí’s Liberative Political Theology: Also of Interest
Miguel A. De La Torre
ISBN: 9780826501677
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