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New books from university presses

(1) How the “Red Star” Rose: Edgar Snow and Early Images of Mao Zedong
Ishikawa Yoshihiro. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel
ISBN: 9789882372078
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(2) Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria
Will Hanley
ISBN: 9780231177634
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(3) Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy
Alex J. Bellamy
ISBN: 9780231192965
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(4) The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang
Perhat Tursun. Translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous
ISBN: 9780231202916
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(5) The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance, revised and updated edition
Chris Webb. Foreword by Jerry Steinberg
ISBN: 9783838216966
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(6) The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance
Mansour Nasasra
ISBN: 9780231175319
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(7) Three Revolutions – Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine III: Archival Records and Historical Sources on the 1990 Revolution on Granite
Edited by Paweł Kowal, Iwona Reichardt, and Kateryna Pryshchepa
ISBN: 9783838213767
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(8) Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945
Michael Francis Laffan
ISBN: 9780231202633
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(9) Waiting for Dignity: Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan
Florian Weigand
ISBN: 9780231200493
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(10) Writing in Difficult Times: A Bilingual Essay Anthology
Edited by Nicholas Wong and Li Mei Ting
ISBN: 9789887564614
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(11) Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang
Translated by Richard John Lynn
ISBN: 9780231123877
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(12) Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine
Eric I. Karchmer
ISBN: 9780823299836
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(13) Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk
Lu Xun, Eileen J. Cheng, Theodore Huters
ISBN: 9780674261167
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(14) Hold It Real Still: Clint Eastwood, Race, and the Cinema of the American West
Lawrence P. Jackson
ISBN: 9781421444130
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(15) Passion and Restraint: Poles and Poland in Western Diplomacy, 1914–21
Denis Clark
ISBN: 9780228011880
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(16) Voluntary and Forced Migration in Latin America: Law and Policy Reforms
Natalia Caicedo Camacho; Luisa Feline Freier; Dustin Welch Garcia; Andrea Kvietok Dueñas
ISBN: 9780228011842
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(17) Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures
Jose O. Fernandez
ISBN: 9780814215265
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(18) Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature
Mitchum Huehls
ISBN: 9780814215241
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(19) Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community
Huping Ling
ISBN: 9781978826281
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(20) From Honolulu to Brooklyn: Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i
Joel S. Franks
ISBN: 9781978829251
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(21) In the Crossfire of History: Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South
Edited by Lava Asaad and Fayeza Hasanat; Contributions by Farzana Akhter, Lava Asaad, Margaret Hageman, Nyla Khan, Shafinur Nahar, Doaa Omran, Carolyn Ownb
ISBN: 9781978830219
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(22) Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective
Edited by Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin; Contributions by Erin E. Stiles, Ayang Utriza Yakin, Elisa Giunchi, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, Fatima Esso
ISBN: 9781978829060
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(23) Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: Multicultural Considerations
Milton A Fuentes, Rachel R. Singer and Renee L. DeBoard-Lucas
ISBN: 9781978822573
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(24) Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Black Community Perspective
Melissa Phillips, Shavonne Moore-Lobban and Milton A Fuentes
ISBN: 9781978820630
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(25) Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The Latinx Community Perspective
Esther J. Calzada, Monica Faulkner, Catherine LaBrenz and Milton A Fuentes
ISBN: 9781978822887
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(26) Social Exchange: Barter as Economic and Cultural Activism in Medellín, Colombia
Brian J. Burke
ISBN: 9781978829626
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(27) The Perils of Populism
Edited by Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein; Contributions by Valentine M. Moghadam, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Khadijah Costley White, Sabine Hark, Amrita Basu, N
ISBN: 9781978825307
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(28) Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine: The Modest Revolution, 1907–1945
Meir Chazan
ISBN: 9781438490137
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(29) Nietzsche in Hollywood: Images of the Übermensch in Early American Cinema
Matthew Rukgaber; SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
ISBN: 9781438490274
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(30) Orienting Italy: China through the Lens of Italian Filmmakers
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan; SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
ISBN: 9781438490618
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(31) Philosophy as Stranger Wisdom: A Leo Strauss Intellectual Biography
Carlo Altini; SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
ISBN: 9781438490052
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(32) Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies
Edited by Louise Cainkar, Pauline Homsi Vinson, Amira Jarmakani
ISBN: 9780815637219
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(33) Delhi's Education Revolution: Teachers, agency and inclusion
Kusha Anand and Marie Lall
ISBN: 9781800081383
View at publisher (UCL Press)


(34) To Do Justice: The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes
Randall C. Jimerson
ISBN: 9780817321239
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(35) Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited by Bohdan Klid
ISBN: 9781894865661
View at publisher (University of Alberta Press)


(36) A Picture Gallery of the Soul
by Howard Oransky (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520388062
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(37) Dictee
by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390485
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(38) Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance
by Terry Greene Sterling (Author), Jude Joffe-Block (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389809
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(39) Exilee and Temps Morts: Selected Works
by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Author), Constance M. Lewallen (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520391598
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(40) Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
by Mark LeVine (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389380
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(41) Infrastructure and Form: The Global Networks of Indian Contemporary Art, 1991-2008
by Karin Zitzewitz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344921
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(42) Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value
by Edward F. Fischer (Author)
ISBN: 9780520386969
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(43) Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956
by Adel Manna (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389366
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(44) Panics without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking
by Gregory Mitchell (Author)
ISBN: 9780520381773
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(45) The Koreas: The Birth of Two Nations Divided
by Theodore Jun Yoo (Author)
ISBN: 9780520391680
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(46) Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century
by Patricia A. Turner (Author)
ISBN: 9780520389243
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(47) We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World
by Mark LeVine (Author)
ISBN: 9780520350762
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(48) The Costs of the Gig Economy: Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil
Falina Enriquez
ISBN: 978-0-252-04461-8
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(49) Save Venice Inc.: American Philanthropy and Art Conservation in Italy, 1966-2021
Christopher Carlsmith
ISBN: 9781625346759
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(50) The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past
Alena Pirok
ISBN: 9781625346940
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(51) First Nationalism Then Identity: On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak Identity
Mirsad Kriještorac
ISBN: 9780472902880
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(52) Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State
Jeffrey A. Javed
ISBN: 9780472055494
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(53) Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75
Michael D'Alessandro
ISBN: 9780472133178
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(54) Still a Hollow Hope: State Power and the Second Amendment
Anthony D Cooling
ISBN: 9780472220663
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(55) Visual Syntax of Race: Arab-Jews in Zionist Visual Culture
Noa Hazan
ISBN: 9780472133185
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(56) Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
Art T. Burton With a new afterword by the author
ISBN: 9781496233424
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(57) Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
Jerome A. Greene Foreword by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.
ISBN: 9781496232663
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(58) The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah
Edward Feld
ISBN: 9780827615229
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(59) Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability
Abby L. Goode
ISBN: 9781469669823
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(60) Reaching Across Borderlines: Collected Essays from the UNCW-IIUI D.O.S. Partnership
Diana Ashe; Caroline Clements
ISBN: 9781469672847
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(61) The Investigative Brigade: Hunting Human Rights Criminals in Post-Pinochet Chile
Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles; Russ Davidson
ISBN: 9781469670164
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(62) The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949
Zach Fredman
ISBN: 9781469669588
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(63) Us versus Them, Second Edition: The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of the Green Threat
Douglas Little
ISBN: 9781469669526
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(64) Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
Ebenezer Obadare
ISBN: 9780268203146
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(65) Ceremonial Splendor: Performing Priesthood in Early Modern France
Joy Palacios
ISBN: 9781512822786
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(66) China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions
Edited by Weiping Wu and Qin Gao
ISBN: 9781512823011
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(67) Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country
Lori J. Daggar
ISBN: 9781512823295
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(68) Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Justine S. Murison
ISBN: 9781512823516
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(69) Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan
Sanaa Alimia
ISBN: 9781512822861
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(70) I Am Alive: Kettly Mars. Translated by Nathan H. Dize
QuickLinks
ISBN: 9780813948324
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(71) Community Movements in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective of Assemblages
Ryoko Nishii, Shigeharu Tanabe
ISBN: 9786162151866
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(72) Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh
Jenna Grant
ISBN: 9780295750613
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(73) Picture Bride: A Novel
Yoshiko Uchida. Foreword by Elena Tajima Creef
ISBN: 9780295751122
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(74) The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege
Alison Melnick Dyer
ISBN: 9780295750361
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(75) Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region
Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, Michael B. Dwyer, K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295750460
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(76) Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush
Michael B. Dwyer. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295750491
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(77) Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia
John Roosa
ISBN: 9780299327347
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(78) Dynastic Democracy: Political Families in Thailand
Yoshinori Nishizaki
ISBN: 9780299338305
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(79) Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
ISBN: 9780299320645
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(80) Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred
Jane M. Ferguson
ISBN: 9780299333041
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(81) A Fan’s Life: The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat
Campos, Paul
ISBN: 9780226823485
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(82) African Modernism and Its Afterlives
Geissler, Paul Wenzel
ISBN: 9781789384031
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(83) Andrea Sacchi and Cardinal del Monte: The Rediscovered Frescoes in the Palazzo di Ripetta in Rome
Fidanza, Giovan Battista
ISBN: 9781912168316
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(84) Behind the Angel of History: The "Angelus Novus" and Its Interleaf
Bourneuf, Annie
ISBN: 9780226816708
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(85) Burmese Silver from the Colonial Period
Green, Alexandra
ISBN: 9781912168279
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(86) Coloring St. Louis: A Coloring Book for All Ages
Wanko, Andrew
ISBN: 9798985571608
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(87) Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia
Castellano, Carlos Garrido
ISBN: 9781786838735
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(88) Early Theravadin Cambodia: Perspectives from Art and Archaeology
Thompson, Ashley
ISBN: 9789813251496
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(89) Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture
Vinograd, Richard
ISBN: 9781789145328
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(90) From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
Smith, Pamela H.
ISBN: 9780226818245
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(91) Images of Malice: Visual Representations of Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in the Bohemian Lands
Janácová, Eva
ISBN: 9788024651057
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(92) India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies
Fárek, Martin
ISBN: 9788024647555
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(93) Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland
Rogaski, Ruth
ISBN: 9780226809656
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(94) Plowshares into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of Nations
Ekbladh, David
ISBN: 9780226820491
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(95) Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan
Schweig, Meredith
ISBN: 9780226819587
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(96) Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History: Dialect and Text
Simmons, Richard VanNess
ISBN: 9789888754090
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(97) The Empress Eugénie in England: Art, Architecture, Collecting
Geraghty, Anthony
ISBN: 9781916237827
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(98) The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia
Burnyeat, Gwen
ISBN: 9780226821627
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(99) The Impact of Devolution in Wales: Social Democracy with a Welsh Stripe?
Williams, Jane
ISBN: 9781786838865
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(100) The Pilgrim’s Bowl: (Giorgio Morandi)
Jaccottet, Philippe
ISBN: 9781803090542
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(101) The Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle
Richards, Annette
ISBN: 9780226806266
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(102) Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Parker, Eleanor
ISBN: 9781789146721
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(103) Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century
Nicole Maurantonio
ISBN: 9780700634224
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(104) The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later
Larry Ceplair
ISBN: 9780813195889
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(105) Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
ISBN: 9780826505286
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)