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New books from university presses

(1) A Neglected Right: Prospects for the Protection of the Right to Be Elected in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Senada Zatagić
ISBN: 9783838215211
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(2) Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
Yuhang Li
ISBN: 9780231190138
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(3) Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film
Thomas Chen
ISBN: 9780231204019
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(4) Oil Leaders: An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy
Ibrahim AlMuhanna
ISBN: 9780231189743
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(5) The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan
Paul Roquet
ISBN: 9780231205351
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(6) The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan
Edited by Michael Berry
ISBN: 9780231197472
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(7) The Power of Persuasion: Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century
Lucas Haasis
ISBN: 9783837656527
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(8) The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China
Wai-yee Li
ISBN: 9780231201032
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(9) The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
Eli Friedman
ISBN: 9780231205092
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(10) The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the USSR, 1941–1955
Jonathan Otto Pohl
ISBN: 9783838216300
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(11) Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel
Park Wan-suh. Translated by Yu Young-nan and Stephen J. Epstein
ISBN: 9780231148993
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(12) Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation
Edited by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras and Theodora Patrona; Contributor(s): Eleftheria Arapoglou, Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei, Jim Cocola, Fr
ISBN: 9780823299713
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(13) The Politics of the Near: On the Edges of Protest in South Africa
Jérôme Tournadre; Translated by Andrew Brown
ISBN: 9780823299959
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(14) Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Richard Ovenden
ISBN: 9780674271104
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(15) Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture:
edited by David A. Brewer and Crystal B. Lake
ISBN: 9781421443423
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(16) Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England: Myth, memory and emotional adaption
Barry Hazley
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6375-2
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(17) Making Ukraine: Negotiating, Contesting, and Drawing the Borders in the Twentieth Century
Olena Palko; Constantin Ardeleanu
ISBN: 9780228011019
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(18) The Pen, the Sword, and the Law: Dueling and Democracy in Uruguay
David S. Parker
ISBN: 9780228011026
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(19) Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States
Sara Austin
ISBN: 9780814215166
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(20) Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders
Gretchen Braun
ISBN: 9780814214848
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(21) High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts
Julia Margaret Zulver
ISBN: 9781978827097
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(22) Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
Madhavi Murty
ISBN: 9781978828759
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(23) The Aesthetic Border: Colombian Literature in the Face of Globalization
Brantley Nicholson
ISBN: 9781684483655
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(24) “Help Indians Help Themselves”: The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša)
P. Jane Hafen; Foreword by Margaret Noodin
ISBN: 9781682830451
View at publisher (Texas Tech University Press)


(25) A Brief History of Fascist Lies
by Federico Finchelstein (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389779
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(26) In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East
by Aaron Rock-Singer (Author)
ISBN: 9780520382572
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(27) The Olive Branch from Palestine: The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse
by Jerome M. Segal (Author)
ISBN: 9780520381308
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(28) Two Systems, Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong
by Kevin Carrico (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386754
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(29) Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice
by Sebastián Ureta (Author), Patricio Flores (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386297
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(30) The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brian C. Wilson
ISBN: 9781625346438
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(31) Cops, Teachers, Counselors: Stories from the Front Lines of Public Service
Steven Williams Maynard-Moody & Michael Craig Musheno
ISBN: 9780472055241
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(32) Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation
Nina Berman & Rebecca Monteleone
ISBN: 9780472055357
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(33) Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies
Elvin Jiayun Ong
ISBN: 9780472038886
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(34) Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity
Geng Song
ISBN: 9780472075294
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(35) America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History
Rafael Medoff
ISBN: 9780827615182
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(36) Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020
Samantha M. Williams
ISBN: 9781496223364
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(37) Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country
David H. Wilson Jr.
ISBN: 9781496230454
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(38) A History of North Carolina in the Proprietary Era, 1629-1729
Lindley S. Butler
ISBN: 9781469667560
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(39) Neruda: De 1904 a 1936
Jaime Concha
ISBN: 9781469670904
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(40) Surfing the South: The Search for Waves and the People Who Ride Them
Steve Estes
ISBN: 9781469667775
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(41) A Tyranny Against Itself: Intimate Partner Violence on the Margins of Bogotá
John I. B. Bhadra-Heintz
ISBN: 9780812224948
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(42) American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic
Daniel Diez Couch
ISBN: 9780812253795
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(43) Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs
Maria L. Quintana
ISBN: 9780812253887
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(44) Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200
Heather Blurton
ISBN: 9780812253924
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(45) Neither the Time nor the Place: The New Nineteenth-Century American Studies
Edited by Christopher Castiglia and Susan Gillman
ISBN: 9780812225112
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(46) Won in Translation: Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe
Roger Chartier; Translated by John H. Pollack
ISBN: 9780812253832
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(47) Child: A Memoir
Judy Goldman
ISBN: 978-1-64336-283
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(48) Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall
Thomas Fleischman. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter
ISBN: 9780295750699
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(49) The Great Quake Debate: The Crusader, the Skeptic, and the Rise of Modern Seismology
Susan Hough
ISBN: 9780295750729
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(50) The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish
BJ Cummings
ISBN: 9780295750989
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(51) Uncle Rico's Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
Peter Bacho
ISBN: 9780295749778
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(52) A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization
Lebovic, Sam
ISBN: 9780226816081
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(53) American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race
Gillman, Susan
ISBN: 9780226819662
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(54) Arthur Schnitzler in Great Britain: An Examination of Power and Translation
Robertson, Nicole
ISBN: 9780854572816
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(55) Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America
Logan, Dana
ISBN: 9780226818504
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(56) British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation
Janes, Dominic
ISBN: 9781851245598
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(57) Concrete in Switzerland: Histories from the Recent Past
Aprea, Salvatore
ISBN: 9782889153534
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(58) Cushions, Kitchens and Christ: Mapping the Domestic in Late Medieval Religious Writing
Campion, Louise
ISBN: 9781786838308
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(59) Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Bauhaus Student, Avant-Garde Painter, Art Teacher
Schmutz, Hemma
ISBN: 9783777438467
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(60) Georg Aerni—Silent Transition: New Works
Pfrunder, Peter
ISBN: 9783039420742
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(61) Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England
Fox, Sarah
ISBN: 9781914477058
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(62) Hidden in Plain Sight: Politics and Design in State-Subsidized Residential Architecture
Ramos, Rui Jorge Garcia
ISBN: 9783038602613
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(63) Higher Knowledge: SANAA’S Rolex Learning Center at EPFL Since 2010
Van Gerrewey, Christophe
ISBN: 9782889154227
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(64) Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope
Silliman, Jael
ISBN: 9780857429919
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(65) Johannes Itten: Catalogue Raisonne Vol. II Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1939–1967
Wagner, Christoph
ISBN: 9783777431680
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(66) Jürgen Schilling: Nature as Landscape
Schlink, Wilhelm
ISBN: 9783777436876
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(67) Katharina Grosse: Cloud in the Shape of a Sword
Schwarzwälder, Rosemarie
ISBN: 9783777438696
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(68) Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America
Daniels, Mario
ISBN: 9780226817538
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(69) Living High: Trinity Tower, Paris La Défense
Cro&Co Architecture,
ISBN: 9783038602705
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(70) Local Interests: Politics, Policy, and Interest Groups in US City Governments
Anzia, Sarah F.
ISBN: 9780226819297
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(71) Primo Levi: An Identikit
Belpoliti, Marco
ISBN: 9781803091907
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(72) Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
Warikoo, Natasha
ISBN: 9780226636818
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(73) Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy
Kalmoe, Nathan P.
ISBN: 9780226820286
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(74) Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint
Pitkin, Annabella
ISBN: 9780226816920
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(75) Robotic Landscapes: Designing the Unfinished
Hurkxkens, Ilmar
ISBN: 9783038602545
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(76) Selected Letters, 1523-1546: A Bilingual Edition
Colonna, Vittoria
ISBN: 9781649590282
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(77) Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop
Nava, Alejandro
ISBN: 9780226819167
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(78) Studio Mirko Baselgia: )in(out) till sundown
Gaillard, Céline
ISBN: 9783039420667
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(79) The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music
O'Malley, Michael
ISBN: 9780226818702
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(80) The Carpenter and the Architect
Jacquet, Benoît
ISBN: 9782889154456
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(81) The House of Orange in Revolution and War: A European History, 1772–1890
Koch, Jeroen
ISBN: 9781789145427
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(82) The Margins of Late Medieval London, 1430–1540
Berry, Charlotte
ISBN: 9781914477010
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(83) The Voice of the Rural: Music, Poetry, and Masculinity among Migrant Moroccan Men in Umbria
Ciucci, Alessandra
ISBN: 9780226818696
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(84) Verify in Field: Projects and Coversations Höweler + Yoon
Höweler, Eric
ISBN: 9783038602248
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(85) Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
Zaretsky, Robert
ISBN: 9780226803494
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(86) What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk
Lucey, Michael
ISBN: 9780226816678
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(87) Wolfgang Laib in Florence: Without Time, Without Space, Without Body…
Risalti, Sergio
ISBN: 9783777437699
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(88) Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment
Cypess, Rebecca
ISBN: 9780226817910
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(89) Zimoun: A Selection of Installations 2009–2021
Zimoun,
ISBN: 9783039420650
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(90) Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
Oswaldo Zavala; Translated by William Savinar
ISBN: 9780826504661
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(91) Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production
Rebecca Janzen
ISBN: 9780826504449
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