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