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A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of GeographersThe first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York CityO...
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From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about th...
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Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The importance of citywide festivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for the LGBTQ communityFestivals like Mardi Gras and Fiesta have come to be annua...
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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India....
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Japanese Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. ...
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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding.” — Kirkus Re...
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Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the s...
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Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karl...
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban,...
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An Introduction to Japanese Society
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimo...
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Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonia...
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Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the...
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An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, ...
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Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /What bisexual youth can tell us about today’s gender and sexual identities Despite the increasing visibility of LGBTQ people in American culture,...
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Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent
PaperbackOriginal price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia investigates t...
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A Tale of Two Narratives: The Holocaust, the Nakba, and the Israeli-Palestinian Battle of Memories
HardcoverOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /The Holocaust and the Nakba are foundational traumas in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian societies and form key parts of each respective collective...
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Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Originally compiled and written by North Korean defector and author Lim Il, this English-language edition, thoroughly annotated by Dr. Adam Zulaw...
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Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central...
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Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants f...
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Mao's China and Post-Mao China: Revolution, Recovery and Rejuvenation
PaperbackOriginal price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /If the history of modern China was written as a book, its author would be accused of losing touch with reality. During the twentieth century, China...
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Global Networks of Indigeneity: Peoples, Sovereignty and Futures
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$162.99$162.99 - $162.99Current price $162.99| /This book brings together a range of Indigenous perspectives, forming a global network of writers, thinkers, and scholars connected by common inves...
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Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity in Manila and Singapore
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Provides vivid accounts of commercial and leisure spaces that captivated the public imagination in the past but have since been destroyed, forgot...
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Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with t...
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The Dollar: How the Us Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Originally published in Argentina in 2019 and now finally available in English, Luzzi and Wilkis's acclaimed book traces the history of the economi...
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