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(1) A Contested Terrain: Freedpeople's Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction
AnneMarie Brosnan
ISBN: 9781531509293
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(2) Heritage and Its Missions: Contested Meanings and Constructive Appropriations
Edited by Cristóbal Gnecco and Adriana Schmidt Dias; Contributor(s): Deana Dartt, Adriana Schmidt Dias, Cristóbal Gnecco, Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Lisbeth Ha
ISBN: 9781531509330
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(3) Jimmy's Faith: James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion
Christopher Hunt
ISBN: 9781531508814
View at publisher (Fordham University Press)


(4) Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest
Garrett Eisler
ISBN: 9781978835948
View at publisher (Rutgers University Press)


(5) Black Sporting Resistance: Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism
Joseph N. Cooper; Foreword by Gerald Horne
ISBN: 9781978839854
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(6) Latinas/os in New Jersey: Histories, Communities, and Cultures
Edited by Aldo A. Lauria Santiago and Ulla D. Berg; Preface by Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim; Contributions by Aldo A. Lauria Santiago, Ulla D. Berg, Raymond S
ISBN: 9781978826175
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(7) Moving Blackness: Black Circulation, Racism, and Relations of Homespace
Lisa B. Y. Calvente
ISBN: 9781978840645
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(8) Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Edited by Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein; Introduction by Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein; Contributions by Naomi Klein, Marisa J. Fuentes, Christina Sharpe,
ISBN: 9781978838758
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(9) Raritan on War: An Anthology
Edited by Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears; Contributions by C. Felix Amerasinghe, Andrew J. Bacevich, Victoria De Grazia, Tamas Dobozy, David Ferry, M
ISBN: 9781978841604
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(10) Strength through Diversity: Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism
Barry M. Goldenberg
ISBN: 9781978823396
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(11) Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China
Cheng Li
ISBN: 9781503640306
View at publisher (Stanford University Press)


(12) Empires in Friction: Egypt in the Sixteenth Century
Nelly Hanna
ISBN: 9780815638506
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(13) Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago: 1918-1941
Robert Pruter
ISBN: 9780815604808
View at publisher (Syracuse University Press)


(14) American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Four
Edited by Michael J. Altman, Candace Lukasik and Joshua D. Urich; Introduction by Candace Lukasik and Joshua D. Urich; Preface by Michael J. Altman; Contri
ISBN: 9780817361839
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(15) Ancient Indigenous Cuisines: Archaeological Explorations of the Midcontinent
Edited by Susan M Kooiman, Jodie A. O'Gorman and Autumn M. Painter; Contributions by Rebecca K. Albert, Alleen Betzenhauser, Jennifer R. Haas, Mary M. King
ISBN: 9780817322205
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(16) Ancient Indigenous Cuisines: Archaeological Explorations of the Midcontinent
Edited by Susan M. Kooiman, Jodie A. O'Gorman and Autumn M. Painter; Contributions by Rebecca K. Albert, Alleen Betzenhauser, Jennifer R. Haas, Mary M. Kin
ISBN: 9780817361822
View at publisher (University of Alabama Press)


(17) Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's Incarcerated
by Collective Antigone (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520401372
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(18) Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy
by Ruth E. Iskin (Author)
ISBN: 9780520355453
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(19) Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
by Hetta Howes (Author)
ISBN: 9780520396586
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(20) Politics Unseen: Group f.64 Photography and the Problem of Purity
by Ellen Macfarlane (Author)
ISBN: 9780520399754
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(21) The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States
by Kit Williams Myers (Author)
ISBN: 9780520402485
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(22) Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?: Toward a Postcolonial Film Philosophy
by Hamid Dabashi (Author)
ISBN: 9780520397187
View at publisher (University of California Press)


(23) A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin
Naomi R Williams
ISBN: 978-0-252-04624-7
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(24) Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women
Jennifer Rycenga
ISBN: 978-0-252-04630-8
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(25) The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois
Edited by Marci S. Uihlein
ISBN: 978-0-252-04625-4
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(26) Womanism Rising:
Edited by Layli Maparyan
ISBN: 978-0-252-04623-0
View at publisher (University of Illinois Press)


(27) Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea
Bohyeong Kim
ISBN: 9780472904877
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(28) Decentralization, Local Governance, and Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Ellen Marie Lust & Kristen Kao
ISBN: 9780472904754
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(29) Notes on Vermin
Caroline Hovanec
ISBN: 9780472904822
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(30) Radical Poetics
Khadijah Queen
ISBN: 9780472039791
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(31) Readying the Revolution: African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement
Jonathan Shandell
ISBN: 9780472057184
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(32) The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro: A New Translation with Commentary
Nicholas R. Jones
ISBN: 9780472221967
View at publisher (University of Michigan Press)


(33) Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices
Edited by Adam Chalom, Jodi Kornfeld, and Jeremy Kridel
ISBN: 9780827615649
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(34) Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History
Edited by Robert Cvornyek and Douglas Stark Foreword by Devin McCourty
ISBN: 9781496232687
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(35) Taking Charge, Making Change: Native People and the Transition of Education from Stephan Mission to Crow Creek Tribal School
Robert W. Galler Jr.
ISBN: 9781496239815
View at publisher (University of Nebraska Press)


(36) An Efficient Womanhood: Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Natanya Duncan
ISBN: 9781469683287
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(37) Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19
Lori A. Flores
ISBN: 9781469679860
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(38) Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
Julie Greene
ISBN: 9781469679488
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(39) Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Daniel T. Fleming
ISBN: 9781469684123
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(40) Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
Paul E. Lovejoy; Nielson Bezerra
ISBN: 9781469682457
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(41) Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts: Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age
Sakina M. Hughes
ISBN: 9781469676272
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(42) No Country for Old Age: America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley
Mischa Honeck
ISBN: 9781469680972
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(43) Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Ericka Kim Verba
ISBN: 9781469682952
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(44) The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry
Blake Hobby; Alessandro Porco; Joseph Bathanti
ISBN: 9781469683447
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(45) The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Joshua Nygren
ISBN: 9781469680491
View at publisher (University of North Carolina Press)


(46) After Work: Japanese Silver Backpackers
Shiori Shakuto
ISBN: 9781512827088
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(47) Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany
Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann and Shira Miron
ISBN: 9781512826357
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(48) The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy
Melissa Vise
ISBN: 9781512824872
View at publisher (University of Pennsylvania Press)


(49) Mary Turner and the Mob: The Brooks-Lowndes Race Riot of 1918 in History and Memory
Thomas Aiello
ISBN: 978-1-64336-504-6
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(50) The Cost of the Vote: George Elmore and the Battle for the Ballot
Carolyn Click
ISBN: 978-1-64336-512-1
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(51) Understanding Lynn Nottage:
Jennifer L. Hayes
ISBN: 978-1-64336-510
View at publisher (University of South Carolina Press)


(52) Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
Zev Handel
ISBN: 9780295753027
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(53) Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir
Ramona Bennett Bill
ISBN: 9780295753508
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(54) India's Mithila Painting
David L. Szanton, Paula Richman
ISBN: 9780295753225
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(55) Reenvisioning Histories of American Art: Transforming Museum Practice
Jami C. Powell, Michael Hartman
ISBN: 9780295753386
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(56) The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill
Sergei Kan
ISBN: 9780295753478
View at publisher (University of Washington Press)


(57) A Form of Friendship: The Museum on the Square
Murawski, Michal
ISBN: 9788367598156
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(58) Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Good and Bad Government Reconsidered: Painting the Politics of Renaissance Siena
Lubbock, Jules
ISBN: 9781915401137
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(59) Black Abstraction in Architecture: Thought Forms I
Canty, Sean
ISBN: 9783038603832
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(60) Borders of Care: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States
Hoffman, Beatrix
ISBN: 9780226820866
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(61) Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935
Wood, Alexander
ISBN: 9780226836966
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(62) Calatrava: Art
Calatrava, Santiago
ISBN: 9783777442143
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(63) Demos Rising: Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800–1850
Sawyer, Stephen W.
ISBN: 9780226837598
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(64) Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s
Mumford, Eric P.
ISBN: 9780936316505
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(65) Dickens: The Funny Bits: The Funny Bits
Dickens, Charles
ISBN: 9781851246434
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(66) Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz
von Bonsdorff, Anna-Maria
ISBN: 9783777443928
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(67) Impulse Rembrandt: Teacher, Strategist, Bestseller
Nicolaisen, Jan
ISBN: 9783777443768
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(68) Law, War and Conflict in Seventeenth Century Britain: The Trials of Edward Vaughan
Bowen, Lloyd
ISBN: 9781837721771
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(69) Making the Literary-Geographical World of Sherlock Holmes: The Game Is Afoot
McLaughlin, David
ISBN: 9781837721658
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(70) Marc Chagall
Voermann, Ilka
ISBN: 9783777443935
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(71) MSN. Building the Museum
Ejsmont, Marta
ISBN: 9788367598170
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(72) Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections: A Research Guide
Schuhmacher, Jacques
ISBN: 9781800086913
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(73) Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light
Johnson, James
ISBN: 9780226836461
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(74) Rembrandt as Inspirtion: Teacher, Strategist, Bestseller
Nicolaisen, Jan
ISBN: 9783777443768
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(75) Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy’s Pre-Eminent City, 1500–1800
Gianfrancesco, Lorenza
ISBN: 9781800086753
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(76) The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization
Klug, Sam
ISBN: 9780226820514
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(77) The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability
Cameron, Sharon
ISBN: 9780226837055
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(78) The Lordship of Denbigh, 1282–1543
Owen, D. Huw
ISBN: 9781837721740
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(79) The Other Catalans: Representations of Immigration in Catalan Literature
Fernandez, Josep-Anton
ISBN: 9781837721566
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(80) The Trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century Britain, c.1596–1661
Bowen, Lloyd
ISBN: 9781837721771
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(81) Welsh Not: Education and the Anglicization of the Nineteenth-Century Wales
Johnes, Martin
ISBN: 9781837721801
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(82) Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture
Serlin, David
ISBN: 9780226748979
View at publisher (University Press of Chicago)


(83) Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Raquel Alicia Otheguy
ISBN: 9781683404767
View at publisher (University Press of Florida)


(84) Astride: Horses, Women, and a Partnership that Shaped America
Eliza McGraw
ISBN: 9781985901285
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(85) Black Mestiza: Poems
Yael Valencia Aldana
ISBN: 9781985901247
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(86) Ink: A Novel
Angela Woodward
ISBN: 9781985901391
View at publisher (University Press of Kentucky)


(87) Comics Art in Korea:
John A. Lent
ISBN: 9781496854711
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(88) On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction
Ian Kinane
ISBN: 9781496855145
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(89) Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History
Nancy Dixon
ISBN: 9781496853639
View at publisher (University Press of Mississippi)


(90) Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present
Edited by Mabel Moraña and Miguel Valerio
ISBN: 9780826507242
View at publisher (Vanderbilt University Press)