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Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Born to Rule

This data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who's Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the British elite have used status, elite education, and powerful social networks to shap…

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Antje Richter
Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature

Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200-ca. 600) through a range of literary sources-essays, prefaces, correspondence, religious…

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Shahir S. Rizk, Maggie M. Fink
The Color of North

Proteins link all life on Earth and enable its most astonishing capacities-from a firefly's glow to the navigational abilities of migrating birds to human emotional experience. The Color of North explores…

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Julia Rombough
A Veil of Silence

Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women's residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was tied to ideals of feminine purity and spiritual discipline, yet enclosed women sti…

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Sabas
The Life of Saint Peter of Atroa

Peter of Atroa (773-837 CE) was cofounder and abbot of the influential monastery of Saint Zachariah. He resisted Iconoclast policies and gained a reputation as a miracle worker. The Life of Saint Peter of…

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Marina Sakali
The Uses of Oppression

The Uses of Oppression follows the development of the Ottoman Greek press in the nineteenth century. It employs the vivid reflections of editors, correspondents, advertisers, commentators, and readers to …

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Richard Slotkin
A Great Disorder

The culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity-the Frontier, the Founding, …

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M. William Steele
Rethinking Japan's Modernity

In *Rethinking Japan's Modernity,*M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with Japan's engagement with modernity, starting in 1853. Using cartoons, woodblock prints…

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Olena Stiazhkina,
Cecil the Lion Had to Die

Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature

In Cecil the Lion Had to Die, Olena Stiazhkina follows four families through radical transformations when the Soviet Union implodes, independent Ukraine emerges, and Russia occupies Ukraine's Crimea and p…

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Kenneth Stow
Feeding the Eternal City

Between 1555 and 1870, papal authorities created legal roadblocks to keep Rome's ghetto-bound Jews from obtaining kosher meat. But Jewish butchers found ways to circumvent canon law by working with their …

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Robert L Suettinger
The Conscience of the Party

The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted popular reforms and took aim at Mao's personality cult. When Hu's popularity and pol…

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Cass R Sunstein
Campus Free Speech

In this concise, pragmatic guide, Cass Sunstein presents a range of scenarios involving students, professors, and administrators, and demonstrates how to distinguish reasonable restrictions from impermiss…

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Luna Sabastian
Fascism in India

Luna Sabastian traces the evolution of Hindutva since the 1920s, arguing that it is a form of fascism. Influenced by Euro-American race thought, but also departing from it, Hindutva eschews genocide and e…

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Wendy Salkin
Speaking for Others

From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were never elected. Wendy Salkin provides the first systematic analysis of the ubiquito…

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Melissa Schwartzberg, Jack Knight
Democratic Deals

Bargains are a fact of political life. But if bargaining inevitably involves asymmetric power, can it ever be just? Drawing on an analogy to the private law of contracts and on case studies across arenas …

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Ben Shahn
The Shape of Content

In six wide-ranging lectures on art history, the problems of form, and his own career, celebrated twentieth-century activist-painter Ben Shahn explores the labor of artistic creation, the confines of form…

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William T Sherman,
The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman's memoirs are a key record of Civil War history and memory. With extensive commentary and a new introduction, this annotated edition highlights Sherman's revisions in response to …

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David A Sklansky
Criminal Justice in Divided America

The crises of American democracy and criminal justice are intimately connected. David A. Sklansky shows how police, courts, and prisons helped to break American democracy and can be reformed to empower eq…

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Filip Slaveski, Yuri Shapoval
Stalin's Liquidation Game

Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin's Soviet Union during the 1930s and forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Oleksandr Shums¿kyi, the Ukrainian Marxist revolutionary, was one o…

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Miranda Spieler
Slaves in Paris

Mistaking Paris for a haven of freedom, slaves sought refuge there only to be hunted down, arrested, and deported. Through the biographies of enslaved people who came to Paris from Africa, the West Indies…

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