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Mithi Mukherjee
Asianism and the Fall of Empire

Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resist…

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Across Time and Space

Explore the rise of oil painting in twentieth-century China.In the early twentieth century, oil painting as a non-Indigenous medium began to be taught in Chinese art academies. Since then, it has become a…

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Paul Moawad,
Waiting on Borders

A powerful contribution to ongoing debates on refugees, borders, and camps and the politics of waitingThe Lebanese-Syrian borderscape is predominantly porous and ambiguous, without an actual border contro…

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson
The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866…

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Abbi Flint, Clare Hickman
Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain

This Element brings together historical sources and contemporary experiences to explore the interplay between singing, sociality, body, and meaning in the English landscape over the past century. It explo…

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Mithi Mukherjee
Asianism and the Fall of Empire

Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resist…

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Anna Krome-Lukens
Strong State, Weak Links

In the early twentieth century, most US states established eugenics programs to "improve" the human race through selective breeding. North Carolina ran one of the nation's most aggressive progra…

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Jess Waggoner
Black Crip Modern

Black Crip Modern uncovers how early twentieth-century Black writers, artists, and activists laid the groundwork for modern disability consciousness. Under Jim Crow, Black disabled citizens were excluded …

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Wassily Kandinsky,
Wassily Kandinsky

The Sketchbooks

A revelatory collection of the artist's sketches and preparatory drawings, featuring many that have never been published beforeThe great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of…

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Racial Justice in American Land Use

Over a century after racial zoning was invalidated, American land use remains racially unjust. When racist tools were abolished, other facially neutral tools were created or adapted to maintain white powe…

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Bryan Mccann
Rio de Janeiro

Ten Moments That Shaped

What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the de…

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Laura Rotunno
The New Woman Student in Fact and Fiction, 1880-1914

This book explores the representation of the first generations of women who studied at Oxford and Cambridge in popular fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Familiarly termed "G…

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Edith Wharton
Pomegranate Seed and Other Ghostly Tales

Penguin Horror

PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.Known for writin…

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Matthew Benjamin Cole
Fear the Future

After centuries of contemplating utopias, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers began to warn of dystopian futures. Yet these fears extended beyond the canonical texts of dystopian fiction …

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Cheng Li
Contested Environmentalisms

"The Chinese revolution was a forestry revolution. For decades, tree planting has been at the heart of Chinese environmental endeavors, and forestry is pivotal to its environmentalism and green image…

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Richard Quang-Anh Tran
Queer Vietnam

"Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam. By the beginning of the 1900s, European imperialism had spread Western notions of …

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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical…

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Richard Quang-Anh Tran
Queer Vietnam

"Queer Vietnam recovers the forgotten stories of variant genders and sexualities in early twentieth-century Vietnam. By the beginning of the 1900s, European imperialism had spread Western notions of …

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Kyle Hutchinson
Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism

Processual Tonality and the Psychoacoustics of Chromaticism presents a theory of how chromaticism in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and North American music affects the ways in whic…

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson
The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866…

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