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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Fumiko Joo
Peony Lantern Tales

""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in …

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Oleksandr Mykhed,
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal

A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraineexplores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country's easternm…

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Ira Halpern
Imagining Health

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare systemIn the United States, a deep suspicion of professional medical expertise is becoming increasingly prominent. Meanwhile,…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

"Three millennia ago, in an ancient Greece where men spoke and women were silenced, some of the world's first epics were born: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But these are not just tales about heroic men…

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Amy Motlagh
Colorblind

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of b…

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Amy Motlagh
Colorblind

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of b…

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Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War

Through a detailed examination of a wide range of texts, this book reclaims Edith Wharton's writings from World War I and places Wharton in the company of other "Great War" writers.

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Need/Emergency

Modern politics is preoccupied with states of emergency. Yet emergency politics obscures underlying socio-economic, infrastructural, and ecological conditions of need. Prompted by Hannah Arendt's claim th…

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Ravi Sharma
Plato's Hippias Minor

Ravi Sharma provides a close study of an important but neglected Socratic dialogue by Plato. A new interpretation of the dialogue thoroughly re-examines the ancient evidence bearing on its interpretation …

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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William D Paden
Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Overturning the myth that medieval marriages were loveless, shown through a close analysis of troubadour poetry and historical recordsMedieval marriages are often understood to have been loveless, due par…

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Serk-Bae Suh
Against the Chains of Utility

"The 1970s and 1980s were pivotal decades in South Korea, marked by rapid industrialization and urbanization. The language of sacrifice was constantly employed by the developmental state to justify i…

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Peter Jaros
The Corporate Forms of Antebellum Us Literature

Through close examination of legal and literary texts, The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature tells the story of the corporation in antebellum US law, literature, and culture. It unfolds a rich a…

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Tamar Koplatadze
Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature

A monograph on the rich and complex history of postcolonial literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, examining how post-Soviet authors have responded to the post-Soviet transition, and arguing that …

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Nick Triplow
Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

Nick Triplow's soulful biography of enigmatic British crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis (author of Get Carter ), is one of those rare works of literary investigation that relentlessly asserts its own statu…

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Rachel Skokowski
The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their work.

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We Rode the Rhythms as One

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More than just a literary analysis, this book captures the …

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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