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New books from university presses

(1) Jewish Universalisms: Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity’s Highest Good
Jeremy Fogel
ISBN: 9781684581726
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(2) Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China
Jie Li
ISBN: 9780231206273
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(3) Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: or Language Haunted by Sex
Julia Kristeva. Translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer.
ISBN: 9780231210515
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(4) Empire in the Western Ocean: Sea Power and the Early Ming Navy, 1355–1449
Lo Jung-pang. Edited by Bruce A. Elleman. Foreword by Richard J. Smith. Afterword by Geoff Wade
ISBN: 9789882372719
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(5) Koume’s World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration
Simon Partner
ISBN: 9780231211857
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(6) Reform and Nation-Building: Essays on Socio-Political Transformation in Malaysia
Sharifah Munirah Alatas
ISBN: 9781952636424
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(7) Russian Cultural Diplomacy under Putin: Rossotrudnichestvo, the “Russkiy Mir” Foundation, and the Gorchakov Fund in 2007–2022
Edited by Nadiia Koval and Denys Tereshchenko
ISBN: 9783838218014
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(8) Russian Disinformation and Western Scholarship: Bias and Prejudice in Journalistic, Expert, and Academic Analyses of East European and Eurasian Affairs
Edited by Taras Kuzio
ISBN: 9783838216850
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(9) Russian Political Warfare: Essays on Kremlin Propaganda in Europe and the Neighbourhood, 2020-2023
Anton Shekhovtsov. Foreword by Nathalie Loiseau
ISBN: 9783838218212
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(10) Slaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners
David C. Porter
ISBN: 9780231212779
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(11) Soviet and Post-Soviet Foreign Policies I: East-South Relations and the Political Economy of the Communist Bloc, 1971–1991
Robert M. Cutler. Foreword by Roger E. Kanet
ISBN: 9783838216546
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(12) The United States–South Korea Alliance: Why It May Fail and Why It Must Not
Scott A. Snyder
ISBN: 9780231208697
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(13) Ukraine Lab: Global Security, Environment, and Disinformation Through the Prism of Ukraine
Edited by Sasha Dovzhyk. Foreword by Rory Finnin
ISBN: 9783838218052
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(14) Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation
Edited by Alisa Freedman
ISBN: 9781952636387
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(15) Industrial Policy in Turkey: Rise, Retreat and Return
Mina Toksoz; Mustafa Kutlay|William Hale
ISBN: 9781399510141
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(16) Music Making in Iran from the 15th to the Early 20th Century: Christians, Muslims and Subjects of Law
Amir Hosein Pourjavady
ISBN: 9781399515771
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(17) Secular Coexistence in Lebanon: Christians, Muslims and Subjects of Law
Raja Abillama
ISBN: 9781399507547
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(18) Unemployment and Resistance in Tunisia: The Democracy-Security Nexus
Saerom Han
ISBN: 9781399507080
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(19) Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity in Manila and Singapore
Elmo Gonzaga
ISBN: 9781531505288
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(20) Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands
William Sherman
ISBN: 9781531505684
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(21) A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe
Lina Bolzoni, Sylvia Greenup
ISBN: 9780674660236
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(22) Avant-Garde Post–: Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union
Marijeta Bozovic
ISBN: 9780674290624
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(23) Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
Anthony Grafton
ISBN: 9780674659735
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(24) Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia
Tobias Becker
ISBN: 9780674251755
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(25) Vaccine Wars: The Two-Hundred-Year Fight for School Vaccinations
Kim Tolley
ISBN: 9781421447612
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(26) Between Care and Criminality: Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare
Helena Zeweri
ISBN: 9781978829022
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(27) China and the Internet: Using New Media for Development and Social Change
Song Shi
ISBN: 9781978834736
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(28) Not Alone: LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985
Jason Mayernick
ISBN: 9781978825895
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(29) The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson
ISBN: 9781978836631
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(30) There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises
Aviva Dove-Viebahn
ISBN: 9781978836112
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(31) Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
Melody Yunzi Li
ISBN: 9781978829336
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(32) Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Lisa Bhungalia
ISBN: 9781503634527
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(33) Interiority and Law: Bahya ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments
Omer Michaelis
ISBN: 9781503636613
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(34) The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
ISBN: 9781503636705
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(35) Confucian Iconoclasm: Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China
Philippe Major; SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture; SUNY Press Open Access
ISBN: 9781438495484
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(36) Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel:
Claus Elholm Andersen
ISBN: 9781438495668
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(37) The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya:
Steven E. Lindquist; SUNY series in Hindu Studies
ISBN: 9781438495620
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(38) The Druze and their Faith in Tawhid
Anis Obeid
ISBN: 9780815638483
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(39) All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
Paul Gagliardi
ISBN: 9781439922163
View at publisher (Temple University Press)


(40) Aggression and Sufferings: Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South
F. Evan Nooe; Foreword by Andrew K. Frank, Angela Pulley Hudson and Kristofer Ray
ISBN: 9780817361136
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(41) Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island: Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery
Prudence M. Rice
ISBN: 9780817361143
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(42) Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico
by William B. Taylor (Author)
ISBN: 9780520397668
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(43) Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State
by Moon-Ho Jung (Author)
ISBN: 9780520397873
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(44) Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War
by Eline van Ommen (Author)
ISBN: 9780520390768
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(45) Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
by ShiPu Wang (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520394674
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(46) From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism
Scott Kamen
ISBN: 9781625347619
View at publisher (University of Massachusetts Press)


(47) Inhabiting the Impossible: Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico
Edited by Susan Homar & nibia pastrana santiago
ISBN: 9780472056545
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(48) Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters
Angie Chau
ISBN: 9780472056514
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(49) The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law
Eric Cheyfitz
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1133-1
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(50) What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom
Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki, Editors
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1531-5
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(51) A New Deal for Quilts
Janneken Smucker
ISBN: 9781735278452
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(52) Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver: His Art and His World
Rebecca M. Valette
ISBN: 9781496235817
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(53) Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790–1850
Stuart D. McKee
ISBN: 9781496237309
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(54) Modern Jewish Theology: The First One Hundred Years, 1835–1935
Edited by Samuel J. Kessler and George Y. Kohler
ISBN: 9780827615137
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(55) Accommodating the Republic: Taverns in the Early United States
Kirsten E. Wood
ISBN: 9781469675541
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(56) Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides after the Holocaust
Robin Judd
ISBN: 9781469675442
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(57) Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America
Adrian De Leon
ISBN: 9781469676487
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(58) Escenas de traducción en las literaturas de América Latina
Rodrigo Javier Caresani; María Rosa Olivera-Williams
ISBN: 9781469679129
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(59) Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice
Jeanne K. Firth
ISBN: 9781469676333
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(60) Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio
Katherine Rye Jewell
ISBN: 9781469677255
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(61) Watergate, 1973-1974
John M. Parrish
ISBN: 9781469675176
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(62) Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years
Michael C. Behrent
ISBN: 9781512825145
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(63) The Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern Richmond
Marvin T. Chiles
ISBN: 9780813950334
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(64) "There Are No Hispanic Stars!": Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939
Gabriel Navarro. Edited and translated by Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna
ISBN: 9780895512048
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(65) Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development
Anto Mohsin
ISBN: 9780299345402
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(66) Exodus and Its Aftermath
Albert Kaganovitch
ISBN: 9780299334543
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(67) Exodus and Its Aftermath: Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Interior
Albert Kaganovitch
ISBN: 9780299334543
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(68) A Mother’s Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and Elegies
Carey, Mary
ISBN: 9781649590886
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(69) Bede and the Theory of Everything
Brown, Michelle P.
ISBN: 9781789147889
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(70) Cambodia’s Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery
Biddulph, Robin
ISBN: 9788776943318
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(71) Colonial Law Making: Cambodia under the French
Low, Sally Frances
ISBN: 9789813252448
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
Adams, Jad
ISBN: 9781789147896
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America
Nelson, Adam R.
ISBN: 9780226828497
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) God’s Scrivener: The Madness and Meaning of Jones Very
Davis, Clark
ISBN: 9780226828688
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) Harriet Backer: Every Atom is Colour
Haugsbø, Tove
ISBN: 9783777442105
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
Harris, Leslie M.
ISBN: 9780226824871
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) Italian Maiolica and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery
Sani, Elisa
ISBN: 9781913645168
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Jewish Universalisms: Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity’s Highest Good
Fogel, Jeremy
ISBN: 9781684581726
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Kafka’s Son
Borbély, Szilárd
ISBN: 9781803092683
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) Letters
Andreini, Isabella
ISBN: 9781649590855
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
Woolner, Christina
ISBN: 9780226827391
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy
McCall, Timothy
ISBN: 9781789147858
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) New Brutalism: The Invention of a Style
Groaz, Silvia
ISBN: 9782889155101
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(84) One Foot in a Spanish Grave: Eugene Downing’s Memoir of the International Brigades In Spain
Downing, Eugene
ISBN: 9781910820766
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(85) Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya
Meiu, George Paul
ISBN: 9780226830582
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern
Whalen, Lottie
ISBN: 9781789147865
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(87) Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi: Algonquin Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Fisher, Dennis Leo
ISBN: 9780774868464
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(88) Taking a Stand. Kollwitz: With Interventions by Mona Hatoum
Kunsthalle Bielefeld,
ISBN: 9783777442327
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(89) The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration
Harris, Stephen A.
ISBN: 9781789147803
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(90) The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed through Personal Writing
McAuliffe, Mary
ISBN: 9781910820018
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(91) The Faithful Virgins
Polwhele, E.
ISBN: 9781649590978
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(92) The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters
Burman, Barbara
ISBN: 9781789147193
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(93) The YWCA in China: The Making of a Chinese Christian Women’s Institution, 1899–1957
Littell-Lamb, Elizabeth A.
ISBN: 9780774869201
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(94) Unearthing Traces: Dismantling imperialist entanglements of archives, landscapes, and the built environment
Bertschi, Denise
ISBN: 9782889155507
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(95) When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan
Gould, Hannah
ISBN: 9780226829012
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(96) William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Sutton, Emma
ISBN: 9780226828985
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(97) William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism
Gray, Peter
ISBN: 9781910820438
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(98) Wolfgang Laib: The Beginning of Something Else
Groos, Ulrike
ISBN: 9783777441962
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(99) John Ford
Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington
ISBN: 9780813198378
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(100) Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide
Christina Baker
ISBN: 9780826505989
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)