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(1) An Address in Paris: Emplacement, Bureaucracy, and Belonging in Hostels for West African Migrants
Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye
ISBN: 9780231211437
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
ISBN: 9780231209397
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(3) Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation: Selected Writings 2013–2023
Vladislav Davidzon. Foreword by Bernard-Henri Lévy
ISBN: 9783838215099
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(4) The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China
Thomas Kelly
ISBN: 9780231209632
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(5) A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy: The Unnecessary Caliphate
Ravza Altuntaş-Çakır
ISBN: 9781474479530
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(6) From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes: Music, Poetry, and Mysticism in the Ottoman Empire
Walter Feldman
ISBN: 9781474491860
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(7) Gendering Civil War: Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon
Mireille Rebeiz
ISBN: 9781474499279
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(8) Islamic Modernities in World Society: The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea
Dietrich Jung
ISBN: 9781474492638
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(9) Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East
Susan Slyomovics
ISBN: 9781399517867
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(10) Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate
Mohamad El-Merheb
ISBN: 9781474479653
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(11) Regimes of Mobility: Borders and State Formation in the Middle East, 1918-1946
Jordi Tejel; Ramazan Hakkı Öztan
ISBN: 9781474487979
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(12) Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia
Geoffrey Nash
ISBN: 9781474451697
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(13) Socioeconomic Transformation in the Sasanian Empire: Late Antique Central Zagros
Hossein Habibi
ISBN: 9781474475563
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(14) Spatial Politics in Istanbul: Turning Points in Contemporary Turkey
Courtney Dorroll; Philip Dorroll
ISBN: 9781399503372
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(15) The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora: Recognition, Mobilisation and Transformation
Derya Ozkul; Hege Markussen
ISBN: 9781474492034
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(16) The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance in the 17th Century
Henry R. Shapiro
ISBN: 9781474479615
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(17) War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction: The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea
Ikram Masmoudi
ISBN: 9781399527767
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(18) What is Islamic Studies?: European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field
Leif Stenberg; Philip Wood
ISBN: 9781399500012
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(19) In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations
Merilee Grindle
ISBN: 9780674278332
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(20) Comics and Conquest: Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Rhiannon Koehler
ISBN: 9781421447421
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(21) Courteous Capitalism: Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem, 1900–1930
Daniel Robert
ISBN: 9781421447346
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(22) Truth Commissions and State Building
Bonny Ibhawoh; Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno; Sylvia Bawa
ISBN: 9780228018995
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(23) Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting
Danielle Endres
ISBN: 9780814215562
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(24) The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
Jennifer MacLure
ISBN: 9780814214855
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(25) Bolsonarismo: The Global Origins and Future of Brazil’s Far Right
Fernando Brancoli
ISBN: 9781978838550
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(26) Forgotten Bodies: Imperialism, Chuukese Migration, and Stratified Reproduction in Guam
Sarah A. Smith
ISBN: 9781978832602
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(27) New Israeli Horror: Local Cinema, Global Genre
Olga Gershenson
ISBN: 9781978837843
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(28) Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions
Adrien Sebro
ISBN: 9781978834835
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(29) Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture
Barbara Jane Brickman
ISBN: 9781978828254
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(30) Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities
Leontina Hormel
ISBN: 9781978829466
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(31) Watching While Black Rebooted!: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences
Edited by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade; Foreword by Herman S. Gray; Contributions by Eric Pierson, Christine Acham, Michael Boyce Gillespie, Felicia D Henderso
ISBN: 9781978830028
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(32) When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America
Aaron George
ISBN: 9781978821569
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(33) Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico
Jaclyn Ann Sumner
ISBN: 9781503636279
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(34) The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought
Sonali Thakkar
ISBN: 9781503636446
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(35) Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia:
Xue Mo; Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438494944
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(36) Escape from the Pit: A Woman’s Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939–1943
Renia Kukielka; Excelsior Editions
ISBN: 9781438494777
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(37) Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities
Tanya Ann Kennedy; SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
ISBN: 9781438495460
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(38) Spirit of Haiti:
Myriam J. A. Chancy; SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
ISBN: 9781438495125
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(39) Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics
Tulasi Srinivas; SUNY series in Religious Studies
ISBN: 9781438495286
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(40) Writing Early China:
Edward L. Shaughnessy; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN: 9781438495224
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(41) Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers
Sumita Pahwa
ISBN: 9780815638247
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(42) Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative
Jennie Irene Daniels
ISBN: 9780817361075
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(43) Between Two Homelands: Argentine Migration to and from Israel
Adrián Krupnik
ISBN: 9780817361037
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(44) Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music
Eunice Rojas
ISBN: 9780817360979
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(45) A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia
by Melissa Dawn Ooten (Author), Jason Michael Sawyer (Author)
ISBN: 9780520344167
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(46) Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa
by Angela Miller (Author), Nick Mauss (Author), Anthony W. Lee (Author)
ISBN: 9780520394629
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(47) Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris
by Jacek Blaszkiewicz (Author)
ISBN: 9780520393479
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(48) Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue
by Seth M. Holmes (Author)
ISBN: 9780520398634
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(49) Lived Refuge: Gratitude, Resentment, Resilience
by Vinh Nguyen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520397262
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(50) Maverick Movies: New Line Cinema and the Transformation of American Film
by Daniel Herbert (Author)
ISBN: 9780520382350
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(51) Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965
by Rielle Navitski (Author)
ISBN: 9780520391437
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(52) Free to Hate: How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-Wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Martin Marinos
ISBN: 978-0-252-04550-9
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(53) Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors
Heather Platt
ISBN: 978-0-252-04548-6
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(54) Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang
Sijia Yao
ISBN: 9780472056538
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(55) Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times
Zhiyi Yang
ISBN: 9780472056507
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(56) Agnes Oshanee Kenmille: Salish Indian Elder and Craftswoman
Agnes Oshanee Kenmille
ISBN: 9781934594353
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(57) Rise Up!: Indigenous Music in North America
Craig Harris Foreword by Stephen Butler
ISBN: 9781496236159
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(58) Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World
Mishuana Goeman
ISBN: 9780803290662
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(59) Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become?
Donniel Hartman
ISBN: 9780827615618
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(60) Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
Aimee Loiselle
ISBN: 9781469676135
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(61) Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
ISBN: 9781469676401
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(62) Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
Sara E. Johnson
ISBN: 9781469676913
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(63) Excavating the Lost Colony Mystery: The Map, the Search, the Discovery
Eric Klingelhofer
ISBN: 9781469673752
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(64) Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
Andrew C. McKevitt
ISBN: 9781469677248
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(65) Precarious Constructions: Race, Class, and Urban Revitalization in Toronto
Vanessa A. Rosa
ISBN: 9781469675763
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(66) Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
ISBN: 9781469675114
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(67) Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription
Alex Benson
ISBN: 9781469674636
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(68) Southern Lights: 75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly
Sophia Houghton; Kylan Rice; Daniel Wallace
ISBN: 9781469674568
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(69) Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
Elizabeth O'Brien
ISBN: 9781469675879
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(70) This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations
Whitney Nell Stewart
ISBN: 9781469675688
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(71) Who Is Muhammad?
Michael Muhammad Knight
ISBN: 9781469677262
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(72) American Presidents in Diplomacy and War: Statecraft, Foreign Policy, and Leadership
Thomas R. Parker
ISBN: 9780268207236
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(73) Political Theology and Islam: From the Birth of Empire to the Modern State
Paul L. Heck
ISBN: 9780268207359
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(74) Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany
Tara Nummedal
ISBN: 9781512825572
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(75) Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Daniel O'Quinn
ISBN: 9781512825534
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(76) Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran
Shahram Khosravi
ISBN: 9781512825565
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(77) The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India
Pinky Hota
ISBN: 9781512824858
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(78) African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery
Mary Caton Lingold
ISBN: 9780813949772
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(79) Dishonored Americans: The Political Death of Loyalists in Revolutionary America
Timothy Compeau
ISBN: 9780813950457
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(80) To Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
David W. Houpt
ISBN: 9780813950488
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(81) Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body
Carolyn Swan Needell
ISBN: 9798987929315
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(82) Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism
Wendy Cheng
ISBN: 9780295752051
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(83) The Empire Looks South: Chinese Perceptions of Cambodia before and during the Kingdom of Angkor
Peter Harris
ISBN: 9786162151965
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(84) Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga
David Maxwell
ISBN: 9780299337544
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(85) American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa
Mohun, Arwen
ISBN: 9780226828190
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(86) Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
Burden-Stelly, Charisse
ISBN: 9780226830155
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(87) Cead Isteach / Entry Permitted
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala
ISBN: 9781910820179
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(88) ChartierDalix. Built Work, Archives: 2008–2022
Chartier, Frédéric
ISBN: 9783038602576
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(89) Chicago Reflected: A Skyline Drawing from the Chicago River
Chester, Ryan
ISBN: 9780226828541
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(90) Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà
Meadows, Ruthie
ISBN: 9780226828954
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(91) Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism
Schakenbach Regele, Lindsay
ISBN: 9780226829623
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(92) Four Centuries of Blue and White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain
MacGuire, Becky
ISBN: 9781915401090
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(93) Hello Kew: A Souvenir Scrapbook
Shillito, Sophie
ISBN: 9781842467800
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(94) Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire
Akiboh, Alvita
ISBN: 9780226828480
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(95) In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb
Keogh, Tim
ISBN: 9780226827759
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(96) Kew Pocketbooks: Trees
Martin, Kevin
ISBN: 9781842467824
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(97) Learning to Live with the Past
Kumar, Krishna
ISBN: 9781803092850
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(98) Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel
Dabashi, Pardis
ISBN: 9780226829258
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(99) Meeting My Treaty Kin: A Journey toward Reconciliation
Menzies, Heather
ISBN: 9780774890663
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(100) Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906
King, Carla
ISBN: 9781906359928
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(101) Not Hockey: Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature
Abdou, Angie
ISBN: 9781771993777
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(102) Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China’s Hyperurbanization
Raidel, Ella
ISBN: 9789811858932
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(103) Partitioning Bazaar Art: Popular Visual Culture of India and Pakistan around 1947
Saeed, Yousuf
ISBN: 9781803092911
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(104) Plants of the Quran: History & Culture
Ghazanfar, Shahina A.
ISBN: 9781842467176
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(105) Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor’s West Mebon Visnu
Feneley, Marnie
ISBN: 9789813250536
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(106) Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology
Morgan, Rachel
ISBN: 9780226822389
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(107) The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
Wang, Michelle H.
ISBN: 9780226827469
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(108) The Bag Apron: The Poet and His Community
Montague, John
ISBN: 9781910820162
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(109) The World Unmade
Ormsby, Frank
ISBN: 9781910820797
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(110) Towards Territorial Transition: A Plea to Large Scale Decarbonizing
Armengaud, Matthias
ISBN: 9783038603054
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(111) Vying for Victory: The 1923 General Election in the Irish Free State
Callinan, Elaine
ISBN: 9781910820704
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(112) Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England
Johnson, Eleanor
ISBN: 9780226830179
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(113) Women Writing War: Ireland 1880-1922
O'Toole, Tina
ISBN: 9781910820117
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(114) You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town
Sayen, Jamie
ISBN: 9781684581849
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(115) Daughters of Muscadine: Stories
Monic Ductan
ISBN: 9781950564330
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(116) Final Words
578 Men and Women Executed on Texas Death Row
ISBN: 9780813197838
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(117) The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia
Bartholomew Dean; Foreword by Manuel Burga
ISBN: 9780826506252
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)