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