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Revolutionary Natures

How a mundane metal bound miners and officials to global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the environmental history of Mao-era China, a per…

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Mary Eyring
Saltwater

Death is easy to locate in the archives of early America. Grief is not so easily pinned down. Yet it was a near constant companion for the men and women that settled in what is now New England. Their live…

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Eujeong Zhang,
Brother Is a Street Musician

Described as a "fascinating journey upstream into the past to understand where the current will bring the future of Korean pop music," (Busan Ilbo Review, 2009) Brother Is a Street Musician does…

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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
The Vice President's Black Wife

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, ow…

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Helen De Cruz
Wonderstruck

A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain worldWonder and awe lie at the heart of life's most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to ou…

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Natanya Duncan
An Efficient Womanhood

"From its Kingston, Jamaica, inception in 1914, women helped define and shape the Black Nationalist and Pan Africanist aims of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Their efforts, made …

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Elizabeth S Manley, Elizabeth Manley
Imagining the Tropics

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the indus…

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Beth Lew-Williams
John Doe Chinaman

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination agai…

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Ju Yon Kim
Paper Performance

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic p…

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Ju Yon Kim
Paper Performance

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic p…

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Elizabeth S Manley, Elizabeth Manley
Imagining the Tropics

Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean across the twentieth century that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the indus…

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Governing Genealogies of International Film Education

Forthcoming Spring 2026

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Thomas W Murphy
Unsettling Scripture

A groundbreaking exploration of the unexpected intersections between Haudenosaunee oral tradition and Latter-day Saint scriptureIn Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon , anthropologist Th…

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Governing Genealogies of International Film Education

Forthcoming Spring 2026

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El-Sayed El-Aswad
Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

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Midori Ogasawara
Colonial Surveillance

In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki …

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Liberation and Education

Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators' and organizations' quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The cont…

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Thomas W Murphy
Unsettling Scripture

A groundbreaking exploration of the unexpected intersections between Haudenosaunee oral tradition and Latter-day Saint scriptureIn Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon , anthropologist Th…

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Thomas Jefferson,
Jefferson on Race

From The New York Times --bestselling and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson's writings on race that every American should readA…

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Sarah Valentine
Decoding the Devil

As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin's atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet …

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