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FALL 2021 TITLES

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Madison Chefs: Cover showing a photo of someone's hands scattering dill on a salad sitting in the center of a large, circular, white plate. The title text is made of multiple skinny, red lines.
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Madison Chefs
Stories of Food, Farms, and People
Lindsay Christians and Chris Hynes
Fall 2021

 

Twelve Ways to Save Democracy in Wisconsin: Cover showing the Madison capital building, colored red, atop a blue background. The title text is proclaimed in white, all capps font, taking up much of the page.
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Twelve Ways to Save Democracy in Wisconsin
Matthew Rothschild
Fall 2021

Correctional: cover showing a picture of author Ravi Shankar as a young boy, with a wide, red stripe dividing his face horizontally, covering his eyes with a sketch of him as a grown man. His face is colored red, his shirt is colored green, and the background behind him is colored orange. The entire image has a shaky, sketchy quality.
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Correctional
Ravi Shankar
Fall 2021

 

Daughter in Retrograde: cover art of a simple drawing of the solar system with a bright, yellow background.
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Daughter in Retrograde
A Memoir
Courtney Kersten
Fall 2021

The Green Hour: Cover of a painting of various native plants and flowers. The title is in white text that weaves in and out of the plants.
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The Green Hour
A Natural History of Home
Alison Townsend
Fall 2021

 

In the Province of the Gods: cover art of paper lanterns floating on dark water, the foreground of the image more illuminated that the background.
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In the Province of the Gods
Kenny Fries
Fall 2021

The Wongs of Beloit Wisconsin: Cover of an old sepia photograph of an Asian man sitting in a chair holding his baby and an Asian woman sitting beside him. The title text is written in bright white and red text across the bottom half of the page.
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The Wongs of Beloit, Wisconsin
Beatrice McKenzie
Fall 2021

 

Playing with Dynamite: Cover depicting a cartoon dynamite fuse upon a white background. The title text is written in red cursive and connects to the fuse.
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Playing with Dynamite
A Memoir
Sharon Harrigan
Fall 2021

The Geography of Wisconsin: Cover showing an off-kilter photograph of a Wisconsin landscape. The title text is written in orange and white font just below the middle of the page.
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The Geography of Wisconsin
John A. Cross and Kazimierz J. Zaniewski
Fall 2021

 

American Parables: Cover showing a cream background with the title text written in thick, multicolored font. The author text is written in curly font in the bottom right corner.
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American Parables
Daniel Khalastchi
Fall 2021

Come Clean: Cover consisting of a photograph of Joshua Nguyen emerging from water, bubbles escaping his mouth as his head breaks the surface. The title is sea foam green and covers his body.
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Come Clean
Joshua Nguyen
Fall 2021

 

South of Luck: cover showing an old blue car in a field. The image is sepia tone with the title text written in white, all capps font, superimposed on top of it.
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South of Luck
Jim Guhl
Fall 2021

The Book of Casey Adair: Cover showing a photo of a disco that has been recolored in holographic reds, purples, and greens. The title text spans across the page in striking white font.
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The Book of Casey Adair
Ken Harvey
Fall 2021

 

Death by the Bay: cover art of dark blue water against a rocky shore.
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Death by the Bay
Patricia Skalka
Fall 2021

A Driftless Murder: Cover showing an inverted photo of cliffside trees. In the black sky above the tree line, the title text hovers in striking white font. The author text sits below the title text and is written in small, orange font.
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A Driftless Murder
Jerry McGinley
Fall 2021

 

Death on a Starry Night: cover art of a walled city on a hill with a painted, swirling, star-filled sky behind it.
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Death on a Starry Night
Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden
Fall 2021

Ireland's Farthest Shores: Cover depicting a painting of a group of white settlers meeting with an indigenous group in a tropical setting. A red band with the title text written on it cuts horizontally through the image.
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Ireland's Farthest Shores
Mobility, Migration, and Settlement in the Pacific World
Malcolm Campbell
Fall 2021

 

Social Trust in the Nordic World: pink cover displaying the black title text and white author text.
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Social Trust in the Nordic World
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
Fall 2021

Children's Literature in the Nordic World: sea foam cover displaying the black title text and white author text.
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Children's Literature in the Nordic World
Charlotte Appel and NIna Christensen
Fall 2021

 

Migration and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia: cover showing a person with their back towards the viewer looking at two walls meeting in a corner, each covered in graffiti. The title and author text are written in white font upon small red strips towards the right side of the page.
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Migration and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia
Edited by Eric Einhorn, Sherrill Harbison, and Markus Huss
Fall 2021

South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left: Cover showing a painting of a child's head colored black containitarquining a pink plant and a man and woman colored green. The man is pointing a bow and arrow and the woman is pointing a gun and has a baby strapped to her back.
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South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left
Jessica Stites Mor
Fall 2021

 

The Fascist Revolution: Illustration of a geometric mosaic consisting of various green, pink, and blue pieces. In the center, a large black rectangle contains the title and author text.
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The Fascist Revolution
Toward a General Theory of Fascism
George L. Mosse, with a critical introduction by Roger Griffin
Fall 2021

Fascination with the Persecutor: Cover depicting a photo of a Nazi march fading off into a tree line. The title text is written in white font upon a red square at the top of the page.
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Fascination with the Persecutor
George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man
Emilio Gentile, translated by John and Anne Tedeschi
Fall 2021

 

Messengers of Disaster: Cover showing a grayscale photograph of a crowded group of people walking down a street. Title text is written at the top of the page in contrasting red font.
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Messengers of Disaster
Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides
Annette Becker
Fall 2021

A History of Italian Fascism: a red cover with a man colored in a flat black raising one arm. The title text is emblazoned upon the cover in white and yellow text.
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A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922–1943
Alessandra Tarquini, Translated by Marissa Gemma
Fall 2021

 

Latent Memory: Cover showing a red and orange painting with areas that have been erased to leave white space.
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Latent Memory
Human Rights and Jewish Identity in Chile
Maxine Lowy
Fall 2021

Exodus and Its Aftermath: Cover showing an old sepia-toned photo of Jewish refugees.
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Exodus and Its Aftermath
Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Interior
Albert Kaganovitch
Fall 2021

 

It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Cover showing three people, one of whom is wearing an arm band, standing on a bridge. The photograph is tinted red, contrasting with the cream and white of the title text.
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It Will Be Fun and Terrifying
Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia
Fabrizio Fenghi
Fall 2021

Black Earth, White Bread: Cover showing tractors on a large plot of land leaving stripes in the ground behind them. 'BLACK EARTH' is written in black text and 'WHITE BREAD' is written in white text, with a red, vertical line between the two phrases.
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Black Earth, White Bread
A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food
Susanne A. Wengle
Fall 2021

 

Royal Capitalism: Cover of a photo of a large crowd in Thailand of people raising different Thai currency above their heads. Above and below the photo there are black blocks with yellow designs.
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Royal Capitalism
Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand
Puangchon Unchanam
Fall 2021

Philippine Sanctuary: Cover depicting a grimy photo of a line of tropical palm trees against a slightly cloudy, blue sky. In the middle of the sky is a super-imposed yellow and blue drawing of the star of David with a circle around it and a sun in its center.
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Philippine Sanctuary
A Holocaust Odyssey
Bonnie M. Harris
Fall 2021

 

Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery: cover depicting a gray background upon which rests an ancient Greek ceramic painted black and orange, with a person and a vase painted in the center. The author text is written in dark gray on top of an orange strip that matches the ceramic at the bottom of the page.
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Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery
Sheramy D. Bundrick
Fall 2021

In the Flesh: Cover showing a woman painted in black with her hands around a tan tree, standing in front of more tab trees.
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In the Flesh
Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy
Erika Zimmermann Damer
Fall 2021

 

Postcolonial Paris: Cover depicting a door painted with many bright colors. The title text is proclaimed in bright yellow font in front of a black strip, the subtitle text is written in teal font in front of a black strip, and the autor text is written in red font in front of a black strip.
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Postcolonial Paris
Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light
Laila Amine
Fall 2021

Revival and Reconciliation: The cover is dvided into three stripes: the top is blue, the middle yellow, and the bottom green. A yellow sun rises at the top of the page. The title text is written in alternating colors to contrast the background stripes.
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Revival and Reconciliation
The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda
Phillip A. Cantrell, II
Fall 2021

 

Holding the World Together: Cover depicting a red and cream background with different words lightly inscribed upon it. The title text is written in bold red text, with the subtitle text in slightly smaller, white text, beneath the title text, and the author text in black text beneath the subtitle silencedtext.
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Holding the World Together
African Women in Changing Perspective
Edited by Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson
Fall 2021

Shaping Tradition: Cover showing a green background with a red circle on the left side that contains the title text. A photo rests along the bottom of the page that shows an Agwagune cultural gathering.
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Shaping Tradition
Women's Roles in Ceremonial Rituals of the Agwagune
David Uru Iyam
Fall 2021

 

Silenced Resistance: cover showing a blurred person holding a microphone. Intense splotches of red and green highlight the image. The title text is proclaimed in contrasting white text.
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Silenced Resistance
Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Joanna Allan
Fall 2021