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Area Studies

New books from university presses

(1) Media, History, and Education: Three Ways to Ukrainian Independence
Serhiy Kvit. Preface by Diane Francis
ISBN: 9783838218076
View at publisher (Columbia University Press)


(2) Political Uncertainty: A Comparative Exploration
Gergana Dimova
ISBN: 9783838213859
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(3) Putin’s War, Russian Genocide: Essays about the First Year of the War in Ukraine
Edited by Philip W. Blood
ISBN: 9783838218335
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(4) Shreds of War. Vol. 2: Fates from Crimea 2015–2022
Ildikó Eperjesi and Oleksandr Kachura. Foreword by Anton Shekhovtsov, and an interview of Oleh Sentsov
ISBN: 9783838217802
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(5) Ukraine and Its Western Allies: Germanyʼs Failure and the Necessary Lessons for the Future
Sabine Adler. Foreword by Andreas Umland
ISBN: 9783838218328
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(6) Ukraine Vis-à-Vis Russia and the EU: Misperceptions of Foreign Challenges in Times of War, 2014–2015
Alina Nychyk. Foreword by Paul D’Anieri
ISBN: 9783838217673
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(7) A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City
Kristin Love Huffman
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1917-6
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(8) An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo
Rachel Marie Niehuus
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2575-7
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(9) How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Dana Luciano
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2570-2
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(10) Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya
Elizabeth W. Williams
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2549-8
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(11) Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
Lara Montesinos Coleman
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2556-6
View at publisher (Duke University Press)


(12) The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making
Yountae An
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2510-8
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(13) The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia
Brooke Larson
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2546-7
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(14) Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire
Wendy Matsumura
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2569-6
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(15) A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions: Arabic-English Translation
El Mustapha Lahlali; Tajul Islam
ISBN: 9781399514330
View at publisher (Edinburgh University Press)


(16) The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History: Eastern and Western Visions in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edhem Eldem
ISBN: 9781399524872
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(17) The Umayyad Empire: Eastern and Western Visions in the Long Nineteenth Century
Andrew Marsham
ISBN: 9780748643004
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(18) Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
Adam Bursi
ISBN: 9781399522328
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(19) Turkish Paramilitarism in Northern Kurdistan: State Violence in the 1990s
Ayhan Işık
ISBN: 9781399505987
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(20) Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously
Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
ISBN: 9781531505646
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(21) Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel
Liron Mor
ISBN: 9781531505448
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(22) Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination
Megan Cole Paustian
ISBN: 9781531505486
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(23) The Drinking Curriculum: A Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol
Elizabeth Marshall
ISBN: 9781531505240
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(24) The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History
Diego Javier Luis
ISBN: 9780674271784
View at publisher (Harvard University Press)


(25) The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain
Bécquer Seguín
ISBN: 9780674260108
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(26) The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492
Marcy Norton
ISBN: 9780674737525
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(27) Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
Rachel Nolan
ISBN: 9780674270350
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(28) Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought
Nazmul Sultan
ISBN: 9780674290372
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(29) New Narratives on the Peopling of America: Immigration, Race, and Dispossession
edited by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso
ISBN: 9781421448664
View at publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press)


(30) Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency
Risa Applegarth
ISBN: 9780814215319
View at publisher (Ohio State University Press)


(31) Through Fences
Written by Frederick Luis Aldama Illustrated by Oscar Garza
ISBN: 9780814258958
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(32) Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq
Fazil Moradi
ISBN: 9781978831698
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(33) Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship
Eric Fleisch
ISBN: 9781978819948
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(34) Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America
Benjamin L. Alpers
ISBN: 9781978830530
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(35) Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Edited by Teresa Politano; Contributions by Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Kimberly Camp, Kelly-Jane Cotter, David Dreyfus, Adrienne Ea
ISBN: 9781978831094
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(36) Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media
Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
ISBN: 9781978805217
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(37) The Politics of Potential: Global Health and Gendered Futures in South Africa
Michelle Pentecost
ISBN: 9781978837478
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(38) Alton B. Parker: The Man Who Challenged Roosevelt
Bradley C. Nahrstadt
ISBN: 9781438495972
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(39) Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)
Tom Navon; SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
ISBN: 9781438495910
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(40) Presidential Performance in the Progressive Era: Leadership Style from McKinley to Wilson
Fred Greenstein
ISBN: 9781648431678
View at publisher (Texas A&M University Press)


(41) Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala
Michael J. Cangemi
ISBN: 9780817361266
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(42) Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part A: Introduction, History, Pharmacology, Diseases and Suitable Pharmaceutical Drugs I
by Shizhen Li (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395152
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(43) Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume I, Part B: Diseases and Suitable Pharmaceutical Drugs II
by Shizhen Li (Author)
ISBN: 9780520397736
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(44) Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VI: Vegetables, Fruits
by Shizhen Li (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395176
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(45) Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume VII: Woods
by Shizhen Li (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395190
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(46) Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems
by Francine Banner (Author)
ISBN: 9780520399464
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(47) Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making Home in Dubai
by Rana AlMutawa (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395060
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(48) Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology
by Eric Dienstfrey (Author)
ISBN: 9780520379558
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(49) North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965
by Andre Schmid (Author)
ISBN: 9780520392847
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(50) Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India
by Amanda Lanzillo (Author)
ISBN: 9780520398573
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(51) The Politics of Love: Sex Reformers and the Nonhuman
by Carla Christina Hustak (Author)
ISBN: 9780520395220
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(52) Drones, Tones, and Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes
Carole Pegg
ISBN: 978-0-252-045
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(53) The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762–1860
Elizabeth Massa Hoiem
ISBN: 9781625347558
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(54) Biblical Judgments: New Legal Readings in the Hebrew Bible
Daphne Barak-Erez
ISBN: 9780472056583
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(55) Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew
Lisa Lampert-Weissig
ISBN: 9780472133468
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(56) The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony: Poems Translated by Ken Walibora Waliaula
Abdilatif AbdallaEdited by Annmarie Drury
ISBN: 9780472076611
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(57) Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers
Brenda J. Child and Howard Oransky, Editors
ISBN: 978-1-5179-14
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(58) Torture in the National Security Imagination:
Stephanie Athey
ISBN: 978-1-5179-13
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(59) Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance
M. Eleanor Nevins With a new foreword by the author, Cline Griggs, and Mona Eleando
ISBN: 9781496231468
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(60) Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
Daphne Lamothe
ISBN: 9781469675312
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(61) Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century
Julia F. Irwin
ISBN: 9781469677231
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(62) La imaginación patriarcal: Emergencia y silenciamento de la mujer escritora en la prensa y la literatura ecuatorianas, 1860-1900
Juan Carlos Grijalva
ISBN: 9781469679426
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(63) The Unstoppable Irish: Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783–1883
Dan Milner
ISBN: 9780268105747
View at publisher (University of Notre Dame Press)


(64) An Economy of Strangers: Jews and Finance in England, 1650-1830
Avinoam Yuval-Naeh
ISBN: 9781512825053
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(65) And the Sages Did Not Know: Early Rabbinic Approaches to Intersex
Rabbi Sarra Lev
ISBN: 9781512825176
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(66) Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400-1700
Katherine Aron-Beller
ISBN: 9781512824100
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(67) Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Elana Stein Hain
ISBN: 9781512824407
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(68) Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories
Edited by Joe Baker and Laura Igoe
ISBN: 9781879636163
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(69) Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Stefan H. Uhlig
ISBN: 9781512824155
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(70) Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers: How Jewish Entrepreneurs Built Economy and Community in Upcountry South Carolina
Diane Catherine Vecchio
ISBN: 978-1-64336-4
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(71) Year Zero: The Five-Year Presidency
Christopher P. Liddell
ISBN: 9780813951133
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(72) Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism across the Pacific
Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields
ISBN: 9780295752341
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(73) The Unknown Great: Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History
Greg Robinson. With Jonathan van Harmelen
ISBN: 9780295751894
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(74) Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
Charles Wilkinson
ISBN: 9780295752723
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(75) Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism
George L. Mosse
ISBN: 9780299346447
View at publisher (University of Wisconsin Press)


(76) Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question”
Renée PoznanskiTranslated by Lenn J. Schramm
ISBN: 9780299345600
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(77) Alpine Passes of Switzerland: Journey to Modernity
von Tscharner, Richard
ISBN: 9783039421626
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending
Southworth, Ann
ISBN: 9780226830735
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(79) Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University
Nelson, Adam R.
ISBN: 9780226829203
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(80) Celia in the Revolution
Fortún, Elena
ISBN: 9781736189368
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(81) Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age
Patashnik, Eric M.
ISBN: 9780226829890
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(82) Emerging Voices: American Women Writers, 1650–1920
Haverstick , Iola S.
ISBN: 9780910672221
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(83) From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol: Highlights from the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich
Quaglio, Arianna
ISBN: 9783039421558
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(84) Heroes: Principles of African Greatness
Dumouchelle, Kevin D.
ISBN: 9783777438825
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(85) Hollein Calling: Architectural Dialogues
De Chiffre, Lorenzo
ISBN: 9783038603405
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(86) Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros’ Eragny Press, 1894–1914: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books, Prints and Prawings Related to the Work of the Press
Beckwith, Alice H. R. H.
ISBN: 9780910672719
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(87) Iran and Global Decolonisation: Politics and Resistance After Empire
Steele, Robert
ISBN: 9781914983085
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(88) Islam in Europe
Luber, Diana
ISBN: 9781913645588
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(89) Lang/Baumann. Models
Glanzmann, Lilia
ISBN: 9783039421664
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(90) Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women’s Health Movement
Houck, Judith
ISBN: 9780226830865
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(91) Lux Guyer—Obere Schiedhalde: Renovation of a House from 1929
Balland, Ludovic
ISBN: 9783038602538
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(92) Market Day
Závada, Pál
ISBN: 9781803091600
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(93) New York City: Two Hundred Years in Maps: From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books about Books
Tomasko, Mark D.
ISBN: 9781605831152
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(94) Radio and the Performance of Government: Broadcasting by the Czechoslovaks in Exile in London, 1939–1945
Harrison, Erica
ISBN: 9788024655215
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(95) SAY 2023: Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2023/24
Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS,
ISBN: 9783038603399
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(96) The Avant-Postman: Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James Joyce
Vichnar, David
ISBN: 9788024649375
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(97) The God behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State
Goff, Alice
ISBN: 9780226827100
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(98) The Men of 1924: Britain’s First Labour Government
Clark, Peter
ISBN: 9781913368814
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(99) The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains
Hrubá, Michaela
ISBN: 9788024641447
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(100) The Prints of Emil Nolde: (1897–1956): From the Collection of Albert and Irene Sax
Sax, Albert
ISBN: 9781605831169
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(101) The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain
Popper, Nicholas
ISBN: 9780226825977
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(102) The Vampyre and Other British Stories of the Romantic Era, Second Edition: Revised and Enlarged
Wallace, Henry M.
ISBN: 9781988963679
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(103) The World of Letitia Elizabeth Landon: A literary celebrity of the 1830s
Sypher, F. J.
ISBN: 9781605830315
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(104) Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers
Aresin, Maria
ISBN: 9781915401007
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(105) Democracy and Time in Cuban Thought: The Elusive Present
María de los Ángeles Torres
ISBN: 9781683404026
View at publisher (University Press of Florida)


(106) Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
Kelley Fanto Deetz
ISBN: 9780813198545
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(107) A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Samuel Charters
ISBN: 9781496849540
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(108) Black Hibiscus: African Americans and the Florida Imaginary
John Wharton Lowe
ISBN: 9781496848598
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(109) Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling
Shantel Martinez
ISBN: 9781496848734
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(110) See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition
Christopher Michael Brown
ISBN: 9781496848192
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(111) Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity
Susan Miyo Asai
ISBN: 9781496847638
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(112) Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II: A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism
Michael E. Lomax
ISBN: 9781496848536
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(113) Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom
Karen Michele Chandler
ISBN: 9781496845931
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(114) Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse
Roberto Ignacio Díaz
ISBN: 9780826506290
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(115) Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change
Carolyn Fornoff
ISBN: 9780826506177
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