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Celia Applegate
The Work of Music

George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas

In The Work of Music, Celia Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich. She explores the working world of…

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Anthony Aveni
Aliens Like Us?

Are aliens even out there? If so, why do we assume we can imagine what they look like, or how they will relate humanity? Anthony Aveni provides us with a thoroughly entertaining analysis of our fasincatio…

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Andréa Becker
Get It Out

Health, Society, and Inequality

"Get It Out explores what it means to have a hysterectomy in a culture that devalues the uterus and the people who have them. Using a trans-inclusive, reproductive justice approach, this book explore…

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Julie Berebitsky
Sex and the Office

This transformative book examines men's and women's changing attitudes toward sex and gender in the US workplace. Between 1870 and 1970, white-collar office work became the leading form of employment for …

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Karen Bermann
The Art of Being a Stranger

A vividly illustrated family memoir told in the voices of father and daughter, The Art of Being a Stranger grapples with the challenges of displacement and historical memory across generations in the wake…

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Talia Mae Bettcher
Beyond Personhood

"Situating trans oppression and resistance within a much larger decolonial struggle, Beyond Personhood provides a new philosophical approach to trans experience, gender dysphoria, and the relationshi…

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Martine Beugnet,
Blur

Cutaways

In cinema, blurriness is usually intended to go unnoticed. When it appears it is either considered an error --- a mistake of focus or a technological failure --- or a background effect of shallow focus in…

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Richard Bodek
Death in the Rubble

German and European Studies

In 1949, the year of the Berlin airlift and the founding of the two post-war German states, Elisabeth Kusian (nurse, black marketeer, morphine and methamphetamine addict, and pathological liar) garroted a…

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Wernher von Braun
The Mars Project

This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher …

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Flora Cassen
Stained Glass

In Stained Glass, Flora Cassen offers a deeply personal and intellectually rich exploration of Jewish life in Europe, from the shadows of the medieval past to the aftermath of the Holocaust and into the p…

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Daniel S. Chard
Nixon's War at Home

During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a lo…

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Robert W. Cherny
A Short History of San Francisco

When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a "compound for cattle"---hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanis…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Georgiann Davis
Five Star White Trash

An unforgettable journey from seventh-grade dropout to celebrated professorHer family was white, but not the right kind of white. They were five star white trash. They borrowed money and tried to buy clas…

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Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
A Short History of Film

Succinct and comprehensive, this updated and expanded edition of A Short History of Filmprovides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present.

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Dennis Drabelle
The Power of Scenery

Featured in the Wall Street Journal' s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide 2021 Marfield Prize FinalistWallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had." But where did the idea origina…

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John M Efron
All Consuming

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

An engaging 700-year history of meat at the intersection of German and Jewish culture, uniquely illuminating the rich, fraught, and tragic history of German Jewry.In Judaism, meat is of paramount importan…

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Fatima El-Tayeb,
Un/German

Un/German is a powerful intervention in the ongoing debates over national identity, migration, and collective memory in Europe. Against the backdrop of the 2015 "refugee crisis," Fatima El-Tayeb…

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Kirk Ellis
They Kill People

A deep dive into the grit and glamor of America's favorite criminal couple and the nation's love affair with guns.On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and Bonnie…

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João Florêncio, Liz Rosenfeld
Crossings

It's difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical reco…

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