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(1) Buddhist Historiography in China
John Kieschnick
ISBN: 9780231205634
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(2) Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing
Jie-Hyun Lim
ISBN: 9780231206778
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(3) Joseph Conrad and Ethics
Edited by Amar Acheraïou and Laëtitia Crémona
ISBN: 9788322794579
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(4) Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China: A Study of the Neglected Zhou Scriptures and the Grand Duke Traditions
Yegor Grebnev
ISBN: 9780231203401
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(5) Power and Restraint in China's Rise
Chin-Hao Huang
ISBN: 9780231204651
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(6) Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology
Brinkley Messick
ISBN: 9780231178754
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(7) Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema
William Carroll
ISBN: 9780231204378
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(8) The Fragrant Companions: A Play About Love Between Women
Li Yu. Translated by Stephen Roddy and Ying Wang
ISBN: 9780231206297
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(9) The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola
Edited by Michael Rosenfeld with William A. Peniston. Translated by Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston.
ISBN: 9780231204897
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(10) The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
Sheila Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780231207171
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(11) To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics
Edited by Rahul Sagar
ISBN: 9780231206457
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(12) Worlds Woven Together: Essays on Poetry and Poetics
Vidyan Ravinthiran
ISBN: 9780231202756
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(13) Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
ISBN: 9780674971752
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(14) How the Soviet Jew Was Made
Sasha Senderovich
ISBN: 9780674238190
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(15) Science for a Green New Deal: Connecting Climate, Economics, and Social Justice
Eric A. Davidson
ISBN: 9781421444345
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(16) Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland
Ewa Stańczyk
ISBN: 9780814214961
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(17) Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Edited by Eva von Contzen and James Simpson
ISBN: 9780814215227
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(18) Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
Edited by Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala
ISBN: 9780814215159
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(19) All for Beauty: Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era
Adrienne L. McLean
ISBN: 9780813563589
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(20) Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey
Gregory J. Goalwin
ISBN: 9781978826489
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(21) Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions
Rhonda D. Frederick
ISBN: 9781978818064
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(22) Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals
Edited by Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy and Pamela Church Gibson; Foreword by Christopher Breward; Contributions by Vicki Karaminas, Justine Taylor, Nigel Le
ISBN: 9781978823297
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(23) Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam
Peter Taylor Klein
ISBN: 9781978826120
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(24) Jewish Lives under Communism: New Perspectives
Edited by Katerina Capková and Kamil Kijek; Contributions by Katerina Capková, Kamil Kijek, Stephan Stach, Valery Dymshits, Diana Dumitru, Anna Shternshis,
ISBN: 9781978830790
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(25) Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America
Monika Siebert
ISBN: 9780817360672
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(26) Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana
by Kwame Edwin Otu (Author)
ISBN: 9780520381858
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(27) Diego Rivera's America
by James Oles (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520344402
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(28) Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil
by Graham Denyer Willis (Author)
ISBN: 9780520388529
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(29) Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment
by David Bond (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386785
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(30) Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
by Asad Q. Ahmed (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344655
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(31) Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay
by Samhita Sunya (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379534
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(32) The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction
by Namita Vijay Dharia (Author)
ISBN: 9780520383104
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(33) The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked
by Iranshah (Author), Hee Soo Lee (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520385306
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(34) Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest
Edited by Theresa Delgadillo, Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Geraldo L. Cadava, and Claire F. Fox
ISBN: 978-0-252-04454-0
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(35) The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption
Patricia L. Bryan, Thomas Wolf
ISBN: 9781609388393
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(36) Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion
Dana Medoro
ISBN: 9781625346476
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(37) Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History
Edited by John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins
ISBN: 9781625346537
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(38) Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique
Kurtis Hagen
ISBN: 9780472133109
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(39) Isolation and Engagement: Presidential Decision Making on China from Kennedy to Nixon
William Waltman Newmann
ISBN: 9780472133086
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(40) Legends of the Warring States: Persuasions, Romances, and Stories from Chan-kuo Ts'e
J. Crump
ISBN: 9781938937088
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(41) Owning Performance | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage
Jane Wessel
ISBN: 9780472133079
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(42) Peony Pavilion Onstage: Four Centuries in the Career of a Chinese Drama
Catherine Swatek
ISBN: 9781938937101
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(43) Song-Poems from Xanadu
J. Crump
ISBN: 9781938937118
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(44) Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818
James L. Hill
ISBN: 9781496215185
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(45) Tests in Print X: An Index to Tests, Test Reviews, and the Literature on Specific Tests
Edited by Nancy A. Anderson, Jennifer E. Schlueter, Janet F. Carlson, and Kurt F. Geisinger
ISBN: 9780910674690
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(46) Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
C. Thomas Shay
ISBN: 9781496223388
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(47) Changing the Game: Title IX, Gender, and College Athletics
Kelly McFall; Abigail Perkiss
ISBN: 9781469670669
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(48) Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587
Daniel K. Gardner; Mark C. Carnes
ISBN: 9781469670805
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(49) Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945
Andrea Geiger
ISBN: 9781469641140
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(50) David Rosenmann-Taub: poemas y comentarios
David Rosenmann-Taub; Kenneth Gorfkle
ISBN: 9781469670850
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(51) David Rosenmann-Taub: Poems and Commentaries
David Rosenmann-Taub; Kenneth Gorfkle
ISBN: 9781469670829
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(52) Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945
Ainslie T. Embree; Mark C. Carnes
ISBN: 9781469670799
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(53) Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
J. Brent Morris
ISBN: 9781469668253
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(54) Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia
Elizabeth Lhost
ISBN: 9781469668123
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(55) Forest Diplomacy: Cultures in Conflict on the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1757
Nicolas W. Proctor
ISBN: 9781469670737
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(56) Japan, 1941: Between Pan-Asianism and the West
John E. Moser
ISBN: 9781469670652
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(57) Mexico in Revolution, 1912-1920
Jonathan Truitt; Stephany Slaughter
ISBN: 9781469670720
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(58) North Carolina Literary Review: Number 31, 2022
Margaret D. Bauer
ISBN: 9781469672267
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(59) Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776
Bill Offutt
ISBN: 9781469670676
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(60) Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty
Jace Weaver; Laura Adams Weaver
ISBN: 9781469670645
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(61) Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791
Jennifer J. Popiel; Mark C. Carnes
ISBN: 9781469670744
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(62) Sobre los límites del campo: Ensayos de crítica literaria latinoamericanista
John Beverley
ISBN: 9781469672199
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(63) The Constitutional Convention of 1787: Constructing the American Republic
John Patrick Coby
ISBN: 9781469670881
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(64) The Needs of Others: Human Rights, International Organizations, and Intervention in Rwanda, 1994
Kelly McFall
ISBN: 9781469670683
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(65) The Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England
Michael P. Winship; Mark C. Carnes
ISBN: 9781469670782
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(66) The Whartons' War: The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865
William C. Davis; Sue Heth Bell; Peter S. Carmichael
ISBN: 9781469668291
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(67) These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border
Andrew J. Torget; Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle
ISBN: 9781469668390
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(68) Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
Denise Khor
ISBN: 9781469667973
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(69) Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900–1959
Nannie Helen Burroughs
ISBN: 9780268105549
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(70) Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Sarah Pinto
ISBN: 9781512823745
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(71) Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Transformation
Sonia Cardenas and Rebecca K. Root
ISBN: 9781512822700
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(72) Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
Iza Kavedžija
ISBN: 9781512823738
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(73) That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
Hannah Barker
ISBN: 9781512823660
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(74) The Fountain of Latona: Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles
Thomas F. Hedin
ISBN: 9780812253757
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(75) Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884–1905
by Matthew Unangst
ISBN: 9781487543402
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(76) Wayward Feeling: Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa
by Helene Strauss
ISBN: 9781487540586
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(77) New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India
Sanderien Verstappen
ISBN: 9780295749648
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(78) Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies
Itamar Dubinsky
ISBN: 9780299335601
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(79) A Short History of Beijing
Clements, Jonathan
ISBN: 9781913368463
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) Adolf Luther: Light
Broska, Magdalena
ISBN: 9783777439143
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(81) Ai Weiwei: In Search of Humanity
Buchhart, Dieter
ISBN: 9783777438641
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(82) America’s Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life
Arcenas, Claire Rydell
ISBN: 9780226829333
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(83) Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance
Tamarkin, Elisa
ISBN: 9780226453125
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(84) Art For No One: 1933–1945
Voermann, Ilka
ISBN: 9783777438528
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(85) Beethoven’s French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration
Beghin, Tom
ISBN: 9780226818351
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(86) Charlotte Berend-Corinth
Jahn, Andrea
ISBN: 9783777439396
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(87) Cranach: The Early Years in Vienna
Messling, Guido
ISBN: 9783777439266
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(88) Crises in Authoritarian Regimes: Fragile Orders and Contested Power
Baberowski, Jörg
ISBN: 9783593514949
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(89) Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography of the Americas
Altic, Mirela
ISBN: 9780226791050
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(90) EVA & ADELE: Keep the Rosy Wing Strong
Gnesa, Nicole
ISBN: 9783777438832
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(91) Gustav Klimt
Rogasch, Wilfried
ISBN: 9783777439792
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(92) Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings from Northern Australia
Appel, Michaela
ISBN: 9783777439167
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(93) René Myrha: A Singular Universe
Hirsch, Helen
ISBN: 9783777438993
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(94) Silent Rebels: Symbolism in Poland around 1900
Diederen, Roger
ISBN: 9783777438566
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(95) Steven Scott: Odyssey. Light Colour Time
Hockemeyer, Lisa
ISBN: 9783777439587
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(96) Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences
Merkel, Ian
ISBN: 9780226819792
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(97) The Breath of Japan: Written and Painted Poetry—Japanese Contemporary Art
Kroehl, Heinz
ISBN: 9783777439501
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(98) The Construction of a New City: Ankara 1923–1933
Cengizkan, Ali
ISBN: 9786057685742
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(99) The Other Faces of the Empire: Ordinary Lives Against Social Order and Hierarchy
Yasa, Firat
ISBN: 9786057685681
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(100) Tito
Barnett, Neil
ISBN: 9781913368418
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(101) Treasures of Herat: Two Manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library
Brend, Barbara
ISBN: 9781909942547
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(102) Yinggelishi: Jonathan Stalling’s Interlanguage Art
Stalling, Jonathan
ISBN: 9789887470755
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(103) War & Homecoming: Veteran Identity and the Post-9/11 Generation
Travis L. Martin
ISBN: 9780813195643
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(104) Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism
Paula Serafini
ISBN: 9780826504555
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(105) Trajectories of Empire: Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora
Edited by Jerome C. Branche
ISBN: 9780826504593
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(106) Transforming Saints: From Spain to New Spain
Charlene Villaseñor Black
ISBN: 9780826504708
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