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“I have always been a great admirer of this institution, which to me looks like an authentic republic of letters …”

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Irish Lacemaking

Art, Industry and Cultural Practice

Molly-Claire Gillett
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Irish Studies
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All the World on a Page

A Critical Anthology of Russian Poetry, 1908–2021

Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky
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Slavic History and Culture
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Love, Money, Duty

Stories of Care in Our Times

Rachel Adams
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Disability, Culture, and Society
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Les Volontaires

Roman familial de la Révolution française

Thomas Dodman
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Affect Studies
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Cracked Foundations

Debt and Inequality in Suburban America

Michael Glass
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Economic History
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Crabgrass Catholicism

How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America

Stephen M. Koeth
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Religion in America
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Fantasies of Nina Simone

Jordan Alexander Stein
429
American Studies
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The Archive of Empire

Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World

Asheesh Kapur Siddique
701
Modern British History
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The Yoga of Power

Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India

Sunila S. Kalé and Christian Lee Novetzke
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South Asia
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The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist

Alan McGowan
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Memory and Slavery: Social and Human Consequences
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Common Measures

Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community

Joseph Albernaz
711
Literary Theory
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Experimental Histories

Interpolation and the Medieval British Past

Hannah Weaver
431
Medieval Studies
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Intimate Subjects

Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age

Simeon Koole
701
Modern British History
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Austerity Measures

The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature

Anders M. Greene-Crow
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Shakespeare
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