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(1) 1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern
Al Filreis
ISBN: 9780231201858
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(2) Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony
Rochona Majumdar
ISBN: 9780231201056
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(3) Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups
Robert Hellyer
ISBN: 9780231199100
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(4) Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
Sarah Cole
ISBN: 9780231193139
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(5) Lumbering State, Restless Society: Egypt in the Modern Era
Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly
ISBN: 9780231201711
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(6) Pandemonium: Saving Europe
Luuk van Middelaar
ISBN: 9781788214230
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(7) The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age: A Digital Analysis of Genre Using Machine Learning
José Calvo Tello
ISBN: 9783837659252
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(8) Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld
Dominique Kalifa. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Foreword by Sarah Maza.
ISBN: 9780231187435
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(9) Infrapolitics: A Handbook
Alberto Moreiras
ISBN: 9780823298365
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(10) Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain
Brandon Bayne
ISBN: 9780823294190
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(11) Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals
Barry Bozeman and Michael M. Crow
ISBN: 9781421442013
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(12) From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony
Abraham Sutzkever; Justin D. Cammy
ISBN: 9780228008996
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(13) Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean
Alison Donnell
ISBN: 9781978818118
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(14) Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages: Religion, Gender, and Belonging
Edited by Yafa Shanneik and Annelies Moors; Contributions by Annelies Moors, Yafa Shanneik, Mary Elaine Hegland, Anna-Maria Walter, Jihan Safar, Marianne H
ISBN: 9781978818460
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(15) Nothing Is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam
Ted Osius; Foreword by John Kerry
ISBN: 9781978825161
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(16) Saying Peace: Levinas, Eurocentrism, Solidarity
Jack Marsh; SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
ISBN: 9781438482651
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(17) Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast
Edward J. Lenik
ISBN: 9780817360443
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(18) The Species Maker: A Novel
Kristin Johnson
ISBN: 9780817360153
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(19) Writing Habits: Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600–1800
Jaime Goodrich
ISBN: 9780817321031
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(20) Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South
Colin B. Chapell
ISBN: 9780817360399
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(21) Imperial Resilience: The Great War's End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations
by Hasan Kayali (Author)
ISBN: 9780520343702
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(22) Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis
by Gabrielle Selz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520310711
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(23) Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age
by Nadya Hajj (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383241
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(24) Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition
by Leila H. Farsakh (Author)
ISBN: 9780520385627
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(25) Kusamira Music in Uganda: Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing
Peter J. Hoesing
ISBN: 978-0-252-04382-6
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(26) Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO
Heather L. Dichter
ISBN: 9781625345950
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(27) African Performance Arts and Political Acts
Naomi Andre, Yolanda Covington-Ward, and Jendele Hungbo
ISBN: 9780472054824
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(28) The Lines Between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment
Bess Rowen
ISBN: 9780472054367
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(29) The Philosophy of Parochialism: Originally published as Filosofija Palanke
Radomir KonstantinovicVolume editor Branislav JakovljevicTranslated by Ljiljana Nikolic & Branislav Jakovljevic
ISBN: 9780472132720
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(30) The Right to Difference: Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature
Nicole Coleman
ISBN: 9780472129416
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(31) There Used to Be Order: Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines
Patience Mususa
ISBN: 9780472054992
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(32) Antisemitism on the Rise: The 1930s and Today
Edited by Ari Kohen and Gerald J. Steinacher
ISBN: 9781496226044
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(33) Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963
Rebecca DeWolf
ISBN: 9781496215567
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(34) A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History
Francesca Morgan
ISBN: 9781469664781
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(35) Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South
Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
ISBN: 9781469664392
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(36) Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic: The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
Jan Ellen Lewis; Barry Bienstock; Annette Gordon-Reed; Peter Onuf
ISBN: 9781469665634
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(37) North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky
Bland Simpson; Ann Cary Simpson; Tom Earnhardt; Scott D. Taylor
ISBN: 9781469665832
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(38) Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ISBN: 9780268105020
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(39) 101 People and Places That Shaped the American Revolution in South Carolina:
edited by Walter Edgar
ISBN: 978-1-64336-228
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(40) Artisans in Early Imperial China
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
ISBN: 9780295749389
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(41) The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
ISBN: 9780295749280
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(42) The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia
Pamela N. Corey
ISBN: 9780295749235
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(43) Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Nik Janos, Corina McKendry
ISBN: 9780295749365
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(44) Art and Trousers: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Asian Art
Elliott, David
ISBN: 9780989688536
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(45) As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth: and Other Poems
Mabanckou, Alain
ISBN: 9780857428776
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(46) Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
Cole, Teju
ISBN: 9780226823867
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(47) Burmese: A Cultural Approach
Keeler, Ward
ISBN: 9789888528400
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(48) Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud
Kirsch, Adam
ISBN: 9781684580675
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(49) Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History
Carleton, Sean
ISBN: 9781771993111
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(50) Dynamic Partisanship: How and Why Voter Loyalties Change
Kollman, Ken
ISBN: 9780226762364
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(51) Harold Rosenberg: A Critic‘s Life
Balken, Debra Bricker
ISBN: 9780226036199
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(52) Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary Pasts
Thapar, Romila
ISBN: 9780857428875
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(53) Land. Milk. Honey: Animal Stories in Imagined Landscapes
Gottesman, Rachel
ISBN: 9783038602477
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(54) Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
Gough, Ellen
ISBN: 9780226767062
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(55) Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America
Barker, Adam J.
ISBN: 9780774865418
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(56) Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
ISBN: 9781988963358
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(57) Mapping Nature across the Americas
Brosnan, Kathleen A.
ISBN: 9780226696430
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(58) Policing the Big Apple: The Story of the NYPD
Stewart, Jules
ISBN: 9781789144826
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(59) Selected Poetry, Prose, and Translations, with Contextual Materials
Lock, Anne Vaughan
ISBN: 9781649590008
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(60) Sigurd Lewerentz—Pure Aesthetics: St Mark’s Church, 1956–1963
Björkquist, Karin
ISBN: 9783038602439
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(61) The Buddha’s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic
Strong, John
ISBN: 9780226801735
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(62) The Dream of Absolutism: Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity
Bjørnstad, Hall
ISBN: 9780226803838
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(63) The Escape: From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions
Schutter, David
ISBN: 9780226461199
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(64) The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam
George, Alain
ISBN: 9781909942455
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(65) Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America
Sanders, Vivienne
ISBN: 9781786837905
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(66) Hitchcock and the Censors
John Billheimer
ISBN: 9780813180540
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(67) Borges: An Introduction
Julio Premat; Translated by Amanda Murphy
ISBN: 9780826502254
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)