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More than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment
The Delight Makers
The Digital Factory
Encounters in the New World
Making Mexican Chicago
America’s Philosopher
Scientific History
Crises in Authoritarian Regimes
Outrageous!
Harold Rosenberg
Collective Memory and the Historical Past
The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
Tito
Scandalous Conduct
The Middle Ages and the Movies
The Huxleys
The Creighton Century, 1907–2007
Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them
The Margins of Late Medieval London, 1430–1540
Chiang Yee and His Circle
Touchy Subject
A Violent Peace
Tazmamart
The Dream of Absolutism
Machiavelli
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
Integrations
Undesirable
Positive Vibrations
Disgrace
Behind the Angel of History
Treasures of Herat
A New Beginning?
Liberty Power
A Legacy of Exploitation
Building the Army’s Backbone
Hope and Scorn
On The Ho Chi Minh Trail
Tear Down the Walls
A Corpus of Greek Graffiti from Dalmatia
Follow Your Conscience
A Great Revolutionary Wave
Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds
Cushions, Kitchens and Christ
A Fan’s Life
Intimate States
None of Your Damn Business
Opium’s Orphans
Park, Tenement, Slaughterhouse
Lessons in Legitimacy
Shifting Currents
The City Creative
The Contested Crown
Peculiar Places
Bentham and Australia
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
A Brief History of the Bodleian Library
Canadian Critical Luxury Studies
A Short History of Beijing
Unspeakable
A Defense of Judgment
Climate in Motion
Pure Adulteration
Musical Migration and Imperial New York
Black Paper
Providing for the Poor
Walking Pepys’s London
Shadowland
The Perfection of Nature
Becoming a Historian
Religious Intolerance, America, and the World
Imagining Central America
Supernatural America
My Three Dads
Invested
Evolution Made to Order
Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment
Queer Legacies
Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America
Deep South
The Academy and the Award
Born with a Copper Spoon
Feminisms
City of Dignity
The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain
Lady Ranelagh
A Cooperative Disagreement
People, Politics, and Purpose
Where Light in Darkness Lies
Napoleon at Peace
Hidden Harmonies
Inventing the Alphabet
Nonprofit Neighborhoods
Bankers in the Ivory Tower
Media and the Mind
On the Spirit of Rights
Power and Time
How the Clinic Made Gender
The Agon in Classical Literature
Jewish Identities in the American West
Plowshares into Swords
Gossip Men
The Complete Works
The Quest for Sexual Health
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Figuring Jerusalem
Constitutionalizing Criminal Law
Sigmund Freud
The Victoria History of Leicestershire: Lutterworth
Non-Design
Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England
Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human
Iran
Ballroom
Egyptomania
Hope and Fear
Travelers, Tracks, and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life
To Live Is to Resist
Duel Without End
The National Security Law of Hong Kong
Afghan Napoleon
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events
African Modernism and Its Afterlives
Troublemakers
Queen of the Maple Leaf
On Revision
States of Exception in American History
The Nutmeg’s Curse
Partition
American Mediterraneans
The Georgian Kingdom and Georgian Art
Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour
Ornette Coleman
A Short History of Tomb-Raiding
Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors
A Fistful of Shells
Manor Lessons
Home Is Where We Are
The Forgotten Revolution
Accidental Pluralism
The Porch
The Connected Iron Age
Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 1836–1861
Bankrupt in America
Of Bridges
The Fires of Lust
Benjamin Franklin
When the News Broke
Doping
Not for Circulation
A Troubled Birth
The Metopes of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai
Taking Leave, Taking Liberties
Making the Second Ghetto
Pulp Empire
Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong
Sir Robert Ho Tung
Insurance Era
The Cosmic Zoom
Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific
Audubon at Sea
The First British Trade Expedition to China
British Dandies
Introducing the Medieval Swan
The Bonds of Inequality
The Worst Military Leaders in History
A History of Christianity in Wales
Red Leviathan
Deconstruction
To Live Peaceably Together
Quantum Legacies
The Wardian Case
Ingredients for Revolution
Ahab’s Rolling Sea
Air Raid
The House of Orange in Revolution and War
Space and Communities in Byzantine Anatolia
From the Ruins of Enlightenment
Knowledge Flows in a Global Age
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn
Fascism Comes to America
The Inca
Picturing Political Power
The Reconstruction Amendments
The Reconstruction Amendments
No Place of Grace
A Righteous Smokescreen
Afghanistan
Causes in Common
The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism
Allies and Rivals
Defying Hitler
Awkward Rituals
Excavating the Memory Palace
Underdogs
The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness
The Mismeasure of Progress
Liquor and the Liberal State
Pleasure and Panic
King of the World
After Redlining
The Genesis Quest
The Signature in Law
The Haydn Economy
Crossing the Boundaries of Life
When Spinoza Met Marx
Thinking About History
Napoleon’s Garden Island
Sincerely Held
Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes
City of Newsmen
Dark Lens
Climate and the Making of Worlds
Terms of Exchange
Grounded at Kai Tak
Oxford University
A Conspiratorial Life
The Atheist’s Bible
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Roman Archaeology in a South Anatolian Landscape
A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks
Neuromatic
Lydia Maria Child
Kindred Spirits
History, Society and the Individual
Treasures
An Unfolding Vision
Calling the Spirits
Where Research Begins
The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy
The Province of Affliction
Religious Liberty and the American Founding
Black Earth
Troubled Water
The Portraitist
Being Somebody and Black Besides
Limits of the Numerical
Freedom Seekers
Uncountable
The Education of Betsey Stockton
The Punishment of Pirates
Trading Freedom
The Beat Cop
Stoudios Monastery in Istanbul
Diet for a Large Planet
Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma
Strata
The Maya
Polling UnPacked
The Indies of the Setting Sun
The Daily Thomas Paine
The Nature of the Future
Dogopolis
Educating the Enemy
Fit Nation
Practice, Power, and Forms of Life
Renunciation and Longing
Rethinking America’s Highways
Materials of the Mind
Adventures in the Stone Age
The World Is Our Stage
Decay and Afterlife
New Perspectives in American Jewish History
The Torture Letters
The Poison Trials
Epidemic Empire
Permanent Crisis
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
Hitler’s Tyranny
The Maternal Imprint
Egypt
Other People’s Colleges
Incomparable Realms
Disalienation
Edward Lhwyd
For the Recorde
Frontier Fieldwork
Knowing Manchuria
The Nation That Never Was
The Heart of Toronto
Astrotopia
The Laws and the Land
Demanding Equality
Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners
Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself
A Philosopher’s Economist
Nubia
Ukraine
The Return of Resentment
The Lost Promise
The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
Myself and My Aims
Spare the Rod
Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty
Carbon Technocracy
Catastrophic Thinking
Living on the Edge
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
What Nudism Exposes
Invisible Hands
Shoddy
Biotic Borders
The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668–1813
Laughing Shall I Die
Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History
Sun Ra’s Chicago
Waves Across the South
From Lived Experience to the Written Word
Henry McCracken
German Jerusalem
Pin-Ups 1972
An Unnatural Attitude
Axiomatics
Poet and Businessman
Patronage and Power in the Medieval Welsh March
Bette Davis Black and White
A Drop of Treason
The Ruins Lesson
Casanova’s Lottery
Inventing Philosophy’s Other
A Liberal-Labour Lady
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
Familial Fitness
Bill of Rights
Seaways and Gatekeepers
Wives Not Slaves
An Open Secret
Apropos of Something
Remembering Emmett Till
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Idiocracy
Cataclysms
Tutankhamun
The Opening of the American Mind
Urban Histories of Rajasthan
Irish Women’s Speeches
Sephardic Trajectories
Dr. Nurse
Reading the Book of Nature
The Worm in the Apple
Best-Laid Plans
Clothing Goes to War
The Historic Heart of Oxford University
American Exceptionalism
Bismarck
Ancient Egypt
Pieter Geyl and Britain
The Lost Black Scholar
John Venn
A Great and Rising Nation
The Queerness of Home
Dinner in Rome
Hearing Happiness
The Aeneid
The Index of Prohibited Books
Hilma af Klint
Pushing Cool
Beauty and the Brain
Gas Mask Nation
Restricted Data
Crusade for Justice
Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion
Daemons Are Forever
Fighting without Fighting
Birth Figures
Time in Maps
Dressing Up
Living in the Future
Crap
The Matter of Black Living
Regicide
War and American Life
The Other Faces of the Empire
Material Culture and (Forced) Migration
The Subversive Simone Weil
Victories Never Last
Whose America?
Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient
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