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Imperial Sexism: Why Culture and Women's Rights Don't Clash
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Denise M. Walsh
Oxford University Press (2025)
Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960
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Giulia Paoletti
Princeton University Press (2024)
Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
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Tessa Farmer
John Hopkins University Press (2023)
Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
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Erik Linstrum
Oxford University Press (2023)
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature
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Christopher Krentz
Temple University Press (2022)
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
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Aynne Kokas
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2022)
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder
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Paul Dobryden
Northwestern University Press (2022)
The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady Guadalupe and American Democracy
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Nichole M. Flores
Georgetown University Press (2021)
Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States
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Katelyn Hale Wood
University of Iowa Press (2021)
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo Xinyu
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Jack W. Chen
Harvard University Press (2021)
Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
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Amanda Phillips
University of California Press (2021)
Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
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Allison Margaret Bigelow
University of North Carolina Press (2020)
The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West
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Ricardo Padrón
University of Chicago Press (2020)
Elemental Narratives: Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy
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Enrico Cesaretti
A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community
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Jarrett Zigon
University of California Press (2019)
Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics
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Charlotte Rogers
University of Virginia Press (2019)
The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea
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Nomi Dave
University of Chicago Press (2019)
Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770-1820
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Douglas Fordham
Yale University Press (2019)
The Humanities and Everyday Life
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Michael Levenson
Oxford University Press (2018)
This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form
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Debjani Ganguly
Duke University Pres (2016)
Hurt Sentiments
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Neeti Nair
Harvard University Press
