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New books from university presses

(1) A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam
Thomas Bauer. Translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall
ISBN: 9780231170659
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(2) In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan
Ōgimachi Machiko. Translated by G. G. Rowley
ISBN: 9780231199513
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(3) Japan's Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century
Tom Phuong Le
ISBN: 9780231199797
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(4) Russian Voices on Post-Crimea Russia: An Almanac of Counterpoint Essays from 2015–2018
Edited by Maria Lipman
ISBN: 9783838212517
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(5) The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945
Olivier Wieviorka. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Foreword by Robert O. Paxton
ISBN: 9780231189972
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(6) The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age
Hoyt Long
ISBN: 9780231193511
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(7) Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India
Jessica Namakkal
ISBN: 9780231197694
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(8) Blood of Two Streams: Gender Balance in Parental Legacy
Francis Mading Deng
ISBN: 9780823297627
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(9) Debt, Law, Realism: Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence
Neil ten Kortenaar
ISBN: 9780228006695
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(10) Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies
Edited by Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora
ISBN: 9781978814448
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(11) Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
ISBN: 9781978806542
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(12) Japan and American Children's Books: A Journey
Sybille Jagusch; Foreword by Carla D. Hayden; Introduction by J. Thomas Rimer
ISBN: 9781978822627
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(13) Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Shanee Stepakoff; Foreword by Ernest D. Cole
ISBN: 9781684483105
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(14) Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal: The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Don Seeman; Daniel Reiser; Ariel Evan Mayse; SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
ISBN: 9781438484013
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(15) Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought: Reading Strauss Outside the Lines
Jeffrey A. Bernstein; Jade Larissa Schiff; SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
ISBN: 9781438483955
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(16) Exile, Non-Belonging and Statelessness in Grangaud, Jabès, Lubin and Luca: No man’s language
Greg Kerr
ISBN: 9781787356733
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(17) A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji
by Reginald Jackson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520382541
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(18) Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization
by Lynn Welchman (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379756
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(19) All under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order
by Tingyang Zhao (Author)
ISBN: 9780520325029
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(20) Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India
by Amanda Weidman (Author)
ISBN: 9780520377066
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(21) Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico
by Catalina M de Onís (Author)
ISBN: 9780520380622
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(22) Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic
by Rose Wellman (Author)
ISBN: 9780520376878
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(23) Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music
by John Howland (Author)
ISBN: 9780520300118
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(24) Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile
by Joshua Frens-String (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343375
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(25) Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
by Corinna Zeltsman (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344341
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(26) King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
by Janet L. Nelson (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383210
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(27) Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
by Atsuko Ueda (Author)
ISBN: 9780520381711
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(28) Not Yo' Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution
by Nobuko Miyamoto (Author), Deborah Wong (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520380653
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(29) Ramayana
by William Buck (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383388
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(30) Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan
by Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Author)
ISBN: 9780520336803
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(31) The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism
by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383067
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(32) Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism: Switzerland, 1800–1900
Mischa Suter
ISBN: 9780472132522
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(33) Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
ISBN: 9781496222664
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(34) Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural Imagination
Kathryn Cornell Dolan
ISBN: 9781496218643
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(35) Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West
Blake Allmendinger
ISBN: 9781496225061
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(36) The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary
Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel
ISBN: 9780827612679
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(37) Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South
James Smethurst
ISBN: 9781469663043
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(38) Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History
Katherine Carté
ISBN: 9781469662640
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(39) Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements
Juliana Hu Pegues
ISBN: 9781469656182
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(40) The Male Chauvinist Pig: A History
Julie Willett
ISBN: 9781469661070
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(41) The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
Jason Vuic
ISBN: 9781469663333
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(42) Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon
Beverly A. Tsacoyianis
ISBN: 9780268200725
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(43) Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier
Rafael Acosta Morales
ISBN: 9780268200763
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(44) Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation
Federica Francesconi
ISBN: 9780812253146
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(45) Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories
Virginia R. Beavert, Michelle M. Jacob, Joana W. Jansen
ISBN: 9780295748245
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(46) Art of the Northwest Coast
Aldona Jonaitis
ISBN: 9780295748559
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(47) Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China
Yan Liu
ISBN: 9780295748993
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(48) Monet at Étretat
Chiyo Ishikawa
ISBN: 9780932216779
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(49) Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks
Brooke Schedneck
ISBN: 9780295748924
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(50) Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
Mytheli Sreenivas
ISBN: 9780295748849
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(51) Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights
Jonathan I. Israel
ISBN: 9780295748665
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(52) Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
Meng Zhang
ISBN: 9780295748870
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(53) 1900 ~ The Year of Art Nouveau: Paris ~ Copenhagen · Copenhagen ~ Paris
Christensen, Charlotte
ISBN: 9788763545914
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(54) Angelo Candalepas: Buildings and Projects
Candalepas, Angelo
ISBN: 9783038601715
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(55) Asian Revitalization: Adaptive Reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore
Cummer, Katie
ISBN: 9789888528561
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(56) Azerbaijan’s Geopolitical Landscape: Contemporary Issues, 1991–2018
Shafiyev, Farid
ISBN: 9788024643915
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(57) Blood, Land and Power: The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period
Perez-Garcia, Manuel
ISBN: 9781786837103
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(58) Bourdichon’s "Boston Hours"
Eze, Anne-Marie
ISBN: 9781913645014
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(59) Changing Their Minds?: Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership
Edwards III, George C.
ISBN: 9780226775814
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(60) Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics
Menely, Tobias
ISBN: 9780226776286
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(61) Culture City. Culture Scape.
Bauer, Ute Meta
ISBN: 9789811443770
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(62) Danish Silver 1600–2000
Funder, Lise
ISBN: 9788763545853
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(63) Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum
Savage, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9781911300755
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(64) Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA
Graziano, Michael
ISBN: 9780226829432
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(65) Exporting Virtue?: China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping
Potter, Pitman B.
ISBN: 9780774865562
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(66) Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction
Rayner, Samantha J.
ISBN: 9781787357624
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(67) German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighborhood in the Holy City
Sparr, Thomas
ISBN: 9781912208616
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(68) Iconoclasm
Freedberg, David
ISBN: 9780226445335
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(69) Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
Horan, Caley
ISBN: 9780226784380
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(70) Laurits Tuxen: The Court Paintings
Fønss-Lundberg, Thyge Christian
ISBN: 9788763546782
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(71) Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900
Christian, Margareta Ingrid
ISBN: 9780226764771
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(72) Reyner Banham Revisited
Williams, Richard J.
ISBN: 9781789144178
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(73) Rida Said: A Man for All Seasons
Kabbani, Sabah
ISBN: 9781912208272
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(74) Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona
Crockford, Susannah
ISBN: 9780226778075
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(75) Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906
Sutherland, Heather
ISBN: 9789813251229
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(76) The Art of Weaving: Danish Hand Weaving in the 20th Century
Paludan, Charlotte
ISBN: 9788763546089
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(77) The Crisis of the Danish Golden Age and Its Modern Resonance
Kramer, Nathaniel
ISBN: 9788763546706
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(78) The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World: Transnational Baltic Artistic Practices across Europe
Duester, Emma
ISBN: 9781789383409
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(79) The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
Barbas, Samantha
ISBN: 9780226658049
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(80) The Rise and Fall of the International Organization of Journalists Based in Prague 1946–2016: Useful Recollections Part III
Nordenstreng, Kaarle
ISBN: 9788024645056
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(81) Vendulka: Flight to Freedom
Kundra, Ondrej
ISBN: 9788024646534
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(82) Hierarchy, Commerce, and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America: A Postal Inspector's Expose
Ruth Hill
ISBN: 9780826501523
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)