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New books from university presses

(1) A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel
Amit Levy
ISBN: 9781684582020
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(2) Jewish Country Houses: Reviews
Edited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green
ISBN: 9781684582204
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(3) The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850
Noa Shashar
ISBN: 9781684582402
View at publisher (Brandeis University Press)


(4) Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park
Stephanie Azzarone
ISBN: 9781531508050
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(5) Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas
Christopher D. Tirres
ISBN: 9781531508319
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(6) Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality
Maurice Jackson
ISBN: 978-1-64712-521-9
View at publisher (Georgetown University Press)


(7) Lordship and State Transformation: Bohemia and the Habsburg Fiscal-Financial-Military Regime, 1650–1710
Stephan Karl Sander-Faes
ISBN: 9780228022909
View at publisher (McGill-Queen's University Press)


(8) Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home
Natalie Lauren Belisle
ISBN: 9781978838291
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(9) God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Casey Golomski
ISBN: 9781978840607
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(10) Hollywood Unions
Edited by Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola; Contributions by Miranda J. Banks, Katie Bird, Kate Fortmueller, Dawn Fratini, Barbara Hall, Erin Hill, Luci M
ISBN: 9781978830585
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(11) Imprisoned Minds: Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison
Erik S. Maloney and Kevin A. Wright; Foreword by Shadd Maruna
ISBN: 9781978837263
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(12) Metagraffiti: Graffiti Art and the Urban Image in Latin America
Chandra Morrison Ariyo
ISBN: 9781978834408
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(13) Reclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination
Darlène Elizabeth Dubuisson
ISBN: 9781978837393
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(14) Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples
ISBN: 9781978830066
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(15) The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border
Daina Sanchez
ISBN: 9781503640221
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(16) The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser
Jonathan Smolin
ISBN: 9781503640238
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(17) Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class
Stacy D. Fahrenthold
ISBN: 9781503638082
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(18) Brazilian Science Fiction Film: A Critical History
Alfredo Suppia; SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
ISBN: 9798855800487
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(19) Expanding Cinemas: Experimental Filmmaking across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic since 1960
Eduardo Ledesma; SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
ISBN: 9798855800500
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(20) From Eternity to Eternity: Memoirs of a Korean Buddhist Nun
Bulpil Sunim
ISBN: 9798855800418
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(21) Hindi Hindu Histories: Caste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early Twentieth-Century India
Charu Gupta; SUNY series in Hindu Studies
ISBN: 9798855800661
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(22) Politics and Government in Israel, Fourth Edition:
Gregory S. Mahler; Reuven Y. Hazan
ISBN: 9798855800333
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(23) Writing Home: Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. Fiedler
Leslie A. Fiedler
ISBN: 9798855800456
View at publisher (SUNY Press)


(24) Salt Journals: Tunisian Women on Political Imprisonment
Edited by Haifa Zangana, Christalla Yakinthou, Virginie Ladisch, Translated from the Arabic by Katharine Halls, Nariman Youssef
ISBN: 9780815638513
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(25) Watching TV: American Television Season by Season, Fourth Edition
Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik
ISBN: 9780815611721
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(26) Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India
by Subah Dayal (Author)
ISBN: 9780520402362
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(27) Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media
by Andrew Campana (Author)
ISBN: 9780520399211
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(28) Inland from Mombasa: East Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean World
by David P. Bresnahan (Author)
ISBN: 9780520400481
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(29) Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen
Alexandria Russell
ISBN: 978-0-252-04629-2
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(30) Carex of Illinois and Surrounding States: The Oval Sedges
Michael Murphy, Greg Spyreas, and Paul Marcum
ISBN: 978-0-252-08846-9
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(31) Jazz Radio America:
Aaron J. Johnson
ISBN: 978-0-252-04622-3
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(32) Phonographic Modernity: The Gramophone Industry and Music Genres in East and Southeast Asia
Edited by Fumitaka Yamauchi and Ying-fen Wang
ISBN: 978-0-252-04612-4
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(33) Women’s Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
Esha Niyogi De
ISBN: 978-0-252-04620-9
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(34) The Dilemma of Compliance: Political Parties and Post-Election Disputes
Svitlana Chernykh
ISBN: 9780472903429
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(35) Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice
Jess A. Goldberg
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1789-0
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(36) Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities:
Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang, and Simon Appleford, Editors Afterword by Kenneth M. Price
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1692-3
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(37) Remember, You Are Indigenous: Memories of a Native Childhood
Evelyn Bellanger
ISBN: 978-1-5179-1666
View at publisher (University of Minnesota Press)


(38) Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains
Sally Thompson Foreword by Myrna Adams Dumontier and Greg Dumontier
ISBN: 9781496239617
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(39) Great Plains Ethnohistory: New Interdisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Rani-Henrik Andersson, Logan Sutton, and Thierry Veyrié
ISBN: 9781496242099
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(40) Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800
Oriol Ambrogio Gali
ISBN: 9781496235770
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(41) The Dreamcatcher in the Wry
Tiffany Midge Introduction by Devon A. Mihesuah
ISBN: 9781496240149
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(42) Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life
Rabbi Marc Katz
ISBN: 9780827615564
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(43) Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
Mary E. Hicks
ISBN: 9781469671468
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(44) Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
Brittany Friedman
ISBN: 9781469683409
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(45) In Place of Mobility: Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland
Kyle E. Harvey
ISBN: 9781469682266
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(46) Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Patricio Simonetto; Sarah Booker
ISBN: 9781469681238
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(47) Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819
Gunther Peck
ISBN: 9781469675145
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(48) Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence
Lisa G. Materson
ISBN: 9781469679921
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(49) The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry
Blake Hobby; Alessandro Porco; Joseph Bathanti
ISBN: 9781469641133
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(50) The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game
Nathan Kalman-Lamb; Derek Silva
ISBN: 9781469683461
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(51) The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
Jenny Shaw
ISBN: 9781469682761
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(52) Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America
Vaughn Scribner
ISBN: 9781469680774
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(53) Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South
Jennie Lightweis-Goff
ISBN: 9781512826685
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(54) On Revival: Hebrew Literature between Life and Death
Roni Henig
ISBN: 9781512826609
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(55) State of Shock: The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Lior Libman
ISBN: 9781512826661
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(56) Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia
Jesse Jonkman
ISBN: 9781512824575
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(57) Matoaka, Pocahontas, Rebecca: Her Atlantic Identities and Afterlives
Edited by Kathryn N. Gray and Amy M. E. Morris
ISBN: 9780813952420
View at publisher (University of Virginia Press)


(58) Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore
Ruth E. Toulson
ISBN: 9780295753331
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(59) Viable Ecologies: Conservation and Coexistence on the Galápagos Islands
Paolo Bocci. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
ISBN: 9780295753447
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(60) Waves of Belonging: Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup
Lydia Heberling, David Kamper, Jess Ponting
ISBN: 9780295753416
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(61) A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel
Levy, Amit
ISBN: 9781684582020
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(62) Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print: From the Americana collection of David M. Rubenstein
Rubenstein, David M.
ISBN: 9781605831183
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(63) Across Time and Space: Re-visiting Twentieth-Century Chinese Oil Paintings
Hua, Shuo
ISBN: 9789887470823
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(64) Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z
Cannon, Maria
ISBN: 9781908590831
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(65) An Indonesian History: Personalised Politics in Makassar and South Sulawesi, c.1600-2018
Sutherland, Heather
ISBN: 9789813252059
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(66) Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature
Gayk, Shannon
ISBN: 9780226837611
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(67) Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France
Chaplin, Tamara
ISBN: 9780226836553
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(68) Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight
Bahr, Arthur
ISBN: 9780226835358
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(69) Contemporary Korean Art: New Directions since the 1960s
Kim, Mina
ISBN: 9781789148718
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(70) COUPLET PAIR REBUS: The Principle of Cause and Effect in Art
Kraemer, Harald P.
ISBN: 9789887470830
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(71) Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli’s Art and Life
Baker, Christopher
ISBN: 9781789149302
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) Einstein in Oxford
Robinson, Andrew
ISBN: 9781851246380
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Erwin Wurm
Hoerschelmann, Antonia
ISBN: 9783777443799
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) Gothic Melville
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
ISBN: 9781837721474
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) In the Forest of Metropoles
Gauß, Karl-Markus
ISBN: 9781803093970
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) Jewish Country Houses
Green, Abigail
ISBN: 9781684582204
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) Kazimira
Leiber, Svenja
ISBN: 9781803093994
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) Making a Canon: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art
Leoshko, Janice
ISBN: 9780226836065
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) Melville’s Billy Budd at 100
Johnston, William Palmer
ISBN: 9781605831121
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) New Technologies and Renaissance Studies IV: The Changing Shape of Digital Early Modern Studies
El Khatib, Randa
ISBN: 9781649591197
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) Noble Virtuosity: Hidden Asymmetry in Ikat from Sumba
ten Hoopen, Peter
ISBN: 9789887470847
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) Oxford’s War: 1939 - 1945
Jackson, Ashley
ISBN: 9781851246137
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) Paula Rego: Power Games
Kunstmuseum Basel,
ISBN: 9783777443126
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(84) Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain
Waddell, Brodie
ISBN: 9781800085527
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(85) SIGHTLINES: On Peace, Power & Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa
Thompson, Drew
ISBN: 9781941792421
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(86) Songs of Innocence
Blake, William
ISBN: 9781851246427
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(87) The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850
Shashar, Noa
ISBN: 9781684582402
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(88) Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman
Roper, Margaret
ISBN: 9781649591227
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(89) Digital Satire in Latin America: Online Video Humor as Hybrid Alternative Media
Paul Alonso
ISBN: 9781683404637
View at publisher (University Press of Florida)


(90) Double Crossed: Black Female Intersectionality in Hollywood
Frederick W. Gooding Jr.
ISBN: 9781496854308
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(91) Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives:
John Minton
ISBN: 9781496854278
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(92) The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White: Recalling the Blues
David W. Johnson
ISBN: 9781496817518
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(93) Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Edited by Jennifer L. French
ISBN: 9780826507457
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)


(94) Where Social Identities Converge: Latin American and Latinx Youth on Screen
Traci Roberts-Camps
ISBN: 9780826507204
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)