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No Island Is an Island

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number of immigrants in Japan has been increasing, partially as a direct result of government po…

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Sami Moubayed, Fakhri Al-Barudi
The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri Al-Barudi

Syria's tumultuous twentieth century through the life of a central figure in Syrian politicsBorn into an aristocratic Damascene family in 1889, Fakhri al-Barudi was a household name in Syria, universally …

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Violent Atmospheres

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who…

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Peter Ricketts
Peace Makers

'Well-researched and enthralling, Peter Ricketts brings the wartime Foreign Office to life.' -- Tim Bouverie'The gripping story of how the men and women of the Foreign Office secured Britain's victory in …

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Kelly M Duke Bryant
Negotiating Childhood

A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial SenegalNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new way…

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Robin Andersen
The Complicit Lens

A media scholar examines how US establishment outlets echo Israeli narratives on Gaza, miminimizing atrocities like the Flour Massacre as "aid-related deaths" to whitewash genocide and excuse wa…

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Quinn Slobodian
Hayek's Bastards

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold WarNeoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as …

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Matthew J Clavin
Symbols of Freedom

How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an American…

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Aaron Graham
Tropical Leviathan

Tropical Leviathan examines the political and economic history of the colonial state of Jamaica in the age of revolution and abolition. It analyses the ways in which Jamaica's economy attempted but eventu…

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Nina M Moore
Toeing the Line

The first up-close look at how Supreme Court affirmative action rulings approximated America's racial politics between 1978 and 2023.Toeing the Line takes us on the first ever deep dive into the constitut…

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Nina M Moore
Toeing the Line

The first up-close look at how Supreme Court affirmative action rulings approximated America's racial politics between 1978 and 2023.Toeing the Line takes us on the first ever deep dive into the constitut…

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Naomi Haynes
A Divine Season

How Zambian Pentecostal activists worked to transform their country into a self-styled "Christian nation"In 2015, Zambia began an ambitious program to "actualize" the country's constit…

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Rozina Ali
Seasons of Fury

This sweeping narrative history chronicles the U.S. government's broken compact with its Muslim citizens, culminating in the post-9/11 era of mass surveillance and increased violence---from an award-winni…

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Nubar Hovsepian
Edward Said

Edward Said was one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century. A literary scholar with an aesthete's temperament, he did not experience his political awakening until the 1967 Arab--Is…

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Corinna Barrett Lain
Secrets of the Killing State

Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story. In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by we…

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Sona Kazemi
Disabling Relations

How do we learn to defetishize disability in our everyday lives? In Disabling Relations , Sona Kazemi probes this and other questions that consider how processes and relations of patriarchy, imperialism, …

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Kristen Kreider, James O'Leary
Ungovernable Spaces

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open access book presents four case studies that demonstrate t…

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Mary Dunn
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability …

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Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal
Poles and Jews

Poles and Jews: A Call for Myth Reconstruction confronts the anti-Polonism deeply embedded among American Jews and Poland's enduring relationship with antisemitism. With two decades of research and in-dep…

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Jonathan Butler
Join the Conspiracy

Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transpor…

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