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Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France by Katherine Dauge-Roth
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $48.96The first major scholarly investigation into the rich history of the marked body in the early modern period, this interdisciplinary study examines multiple forms, uses, and meanings of corporeal... -
How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives: France, the United States, and Israel by Francoise S. Ouzan 9780253033130
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $67.97Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Francoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction,... -
Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago by Tobias Brinkmann 9780226074542
Booksplease Price: $77.39First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America's oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners... -
The Dawes Commission: And the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914 by Kent Carter 9780916489854
Booksplease Price: $30.77Important New Resource for Native American Research from Ancestry.com of special interest to researchers of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek or Seminole Indian Nations. ""Well researched . . ... -
The Donigers of Great Neck - A Mythologized Memoir by Wendy Doniger
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $16.69"Many memories, many myths"-this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents' origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism... -
Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back Noam Zadoff 9781512601138
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $48.93The German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth... -
Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life by Saara Kekki 9780806190808
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.35On August 8, 1942, 302 people arrived by train at Vocation, Wyoming, to become the first Japanese American residents of what the U.S. government called the Relocation Center at Heart Mountain. In the... -
The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland Genevieve Zubrzycki 9780226993041
Booksplease Price: $40.47In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While... -
The Rise of the New Second Generation by Min Zhou 9780745684697
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who... -
Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture M Genevieve West 9780813081083
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Investigating why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be appreciated years after her deathGenevieve West examines the cultural history of Zora Neale Hurston's writing and... -
Criticism and Social Change by Frank Lentricchia 9780226472003
Booksplease Price: $31.99"Criticism and Social Change speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection... -
Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands by Renato Rosaldo 9780520227484
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted--or coerced--from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural... -
Durkheim and the Jews of France by Ivan Strenski 9780226777245
Booksplease Price: $34.42Discussing the work of Emile Durkheim, the author of this study discounts the theory that there is anything "essentially" Jewish in his work. He seeks to show that Durkheim's sociology (especially... -
Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma by Laura Westengard
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $47.45In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art,... -
Tight Knit: Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion by Elizabeth L Krause 9780226557915
Booksplease Price: $118.58The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic... -
Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma by Laura Westengard 9781496217028
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine the gothicism in queer art,... -
Chicago's Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City by Amanda I. Seligman
Booksplease Price: $34.42What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on... -
What Philosophy Is for by Michael Hampe
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $50.14What is the state of philosophy today, and what might it become tomorrow? With What Philosophy is For, Michael Hampe answers these questions by exploring the relationships among philosophy,... -
The Humanities and the Dream of America Geoffrey Galt Harpham 9780226316994
Booksplease Price: $34.42In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' They were,... -
Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream by Katherine Manning
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.50IACP AWARD WINNER: Literary or Historical Food Writing A powerful memoir of resilience, friendship, family, and food from the acclaimed chefs behind the award-winning Hy Vong Vietnamese... -
The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos by Elisabeth Ivarsflaten 9780226807249
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $103.35The politics of inclusion is about more than hate, exclusion, and discrimination. It is a window into the moral character of contemporary liberal democracies. The Struggle for Inclusion introduces... -
Descendants: Nikkei Poetry from the Afterlife of Wartime Incarceration by Brynn Saito 9798888903711
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $22.42An anthology of poetry on Nikkei incarceration, written by descendants of the WWII prisons and camps A tribute to the 150,000 people incarcerated by the United States and Canada during WWII, this... -
Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education by Diane Glancy
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St... -
Immigration Law and Society by John S. W. Park 9781509506002
RRP: $24.19Booksplease Price: $22.82The Immigration Act of 1965 was one of the most consequential laws ever passed in the United States and immigration policy continues to be one of the most contentious areas of American politics. As a... -
Welcoming New Americans?: Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation by Abigail Fisher Williamson
Booksplease Price: $36.83Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities"... -
The Individual in History ChaeRan Y. Freeze 9781611687323
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $41.73Jehuda Reinharz, born in Haifa in 1944, spent his childhood in Israel and his adolescence in Germany, and moved with his family to the United States when he was seventeen. These three diverse... -
A Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada Francisco Nunez Muley 9780226103037
Booksplease Price: $25.95Conquered in 1492 and colonized by invading Castilians, the city and kingdom of Granada faced radical changes imposed by its occupiers throughout the first half of the sixteenth century - including... -
The Archaeology of Citizenship by Stacey Lynn Camp 9780813064192
Booksplease Price: $26.86Since the founding of the United States, the rights to citizenship have been carefully crafted and policed by the Europeans who originally settled and founded the country. Immigrants have been... -
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States by Mneesha Gellman 9780812225280
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity. In this book, Mneesha Gellman examines how Indigenous high school students resist... -
Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom by Irshad Manji 9781451645217
Booksplease Price: $15.71Irshad Manji's message of moral courage, with stories about contemporary reformers such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and Islam's own Gandhi, inspire and show the way to practicing faith... -
Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea by Laura Hapke 9780813534671
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.96Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories... -
Durkheim and the Jews of France by Ivan Strenski 9780226777238
Booksplease Price: $117.96Discussing the work of Emile Durkheim, the author of this study discounts the theory that there is anything "essentially" Jewish in his work. He seeks to show that Durkheim's sociology (especially... -
Photography and Tibet by Clare Harris
RRP: $31.61Booksplease Price: $28.65Mysterious and often inaccessible, Tibet has been a source of fascination to outsiders for centuries and a troublesome and resistant subject for photographers. Even today, photography of Tibet often... -
Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law by Angela S. Garcia 9780520296756
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61Legal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws. Angela S. Garcia compares restrictive and... -
The Right Kind of White: A Memoir Garrett Bucks 9781982197216
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A "deeply revealing and vulnerable memoir" (Kate Schatz, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Do the Work) that earnestly reckons with whiteness and explores how understanding one's own white... -
Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School Jackson Pind 9780228026044
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95The atrocities of the residential school system in Canada are amply documented. Less well-known is the history of day schools, which some two hundred thousand Indigenous youth attended.The Curve Lake... -
Faithful Renderings: Jewish - Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation by Naomi Seidman 9780226745060
Booksplease Price: $36.83Faithful Renderings reads translation history through the lens of Jewish-Christian difference and, conversely, views Jewish-Christian difference as an effect of translation. Subjecting translation to... -
Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective Rachel O'Sullivan 9781350377233
Booksplease Price: $39.40This book examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in... -
The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press by Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann
Booksplease Price: $74.83Arriving in the U.S. in 1883, Antoni A. Paryski climbed from typesetter to newspaper publisher in Toledo, Ohio. His weekly Ameryka-Echo became a defining publication in the international Polish... -
Language Allegiances and Bilingualism in the US by M. Rafael Salaberry
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $35.24This book analyses the concept of language allegiances, and, more broadly, language-based identities in a multilingual society such as the US. The guiding theme of the chapters that comprise this...