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FALL 2022 TITLES

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Remember This: Cover depicting an simple drawing of a dark haired figure draped in a sheet standing above a shirtless man leaning on the ground. The pair are before a large, modern window revealing a city skyline. The image is tinted orange and red. The title text is written in contrasting white font at the top and bottom of the page.
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Remember This
Steve Adams
Fall 2022

  

The Art of the Break: a yellow cover with a simple, pop art depiction of a piece of swiss cheese stretched across it. The title text is in bubbly, black font across the majority of the page.
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The Art of the Break
Mary Wimmer
Fall 2022

Still True: Cover depicting a painting of an old white farmhouse sitting upon a purple hill, connected by a slightly sagging laundry line to a different white house upon a different purple hill. The two hills make the impression of the top of a purple hill coming together near the bottom center of the page. The sky is full of dusty clouds.
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Still True
Maggie Ginsberg
Fall 2022

  

What We Don't Talk About: Cover depicting a starry night sky hovering over the silouette of a small town's skyline, just a sliver of warm light emanating from the horizon. The title text is written in white font across the sky and the author text is written in yellow font at the bottom of the page.
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What We Don't Talk About
James Janko
Fall 2022

American Sex Tape: cover depicting a painting of a cartoon black woman with multiple irises within her eyes, and a third eye inbetween her eye brows. Her wavy-fingered hand is reaching toward the viewer. The title text is contained within a black box at the bottom of the page, the text cut out to reveal the image behind it.
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American Sex Tape™
Jameka Williams
Fall 2022

  

Shopping, or The End of Time: a metallic pink cover behind bold, hot pink title text.
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Shopping, or The End of Time
Emily Bludworth de Barrios
Fall 2022

As If a Song Could Save You: a navy blue cover with gold and red ornamentation. The title text is written in white font upon a red curved strip that flows across the middle of the page.
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As If a Song Could Save You
Betsy Sholl
Fall 2022

  

Plain: cover showing an abstract painting full of rich yellows, oranges, greens, and pastel pinks and blues. The title text is kept in a small white box in the center of the page.
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Plain
A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood
Mary Alice Hostetter
Fall 2022

In Defense of Sovereignty: a red and purple cover with white and purple corn-like tassles emerging from the top and bottom of the page. The title text is written in all capps in the center of the page, between the two corn-tassles.
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In Defense of Sovereignty
Protecting the Oneida Nation's Inherent Right to Self-Determination
Rebecca M. Webster
Fall 2022

  

Ripple Effects: cover showing an arial photo of a speed boat creating a wake in a body of water. The title text hovers above the boat in striking teal font.
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Ripple Effects
How We're Loving Our Lakes to Death
Ted J. Rulseh
Fall 2022

Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan: Cover depicting an illustration of a red book with a hole shaped like the United States in the center of its cover. A wooden ladder emerges from the US shaped hole. Behind the cover is a blue, tiled background.
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Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan
Edited by Kimber M. Quinney and Amy L. Sayward
Fall 2022

  

Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust: cover art of a black and white photograph of the entrance to Auschwitz, a gate reading Arbeit Macht Frei meaning work sets you free. Above the photograph is a a block the color of aged paper, which proclaims the title and editor text.
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Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Edited by Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
Fall 2022

Continental Films: Cover depicting illustrations of two men, one with a wide brimmed hat holding a finger to his mouth, the other looking off to the left with a cigarette in his mouth. The background is red with navy around the border and behind the white title text at the top of the page.
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Continental Films
French Cinema under German Control
Christine Leteux
Fall 2022

  

Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life: cover depicting four three asian men standing close to and looking at another asian man wearing a suit and hat with a prominent mustache. Above the photo is a large yellow block containing the black title text. A blue strip of color lines the bottom and the right side of the page.
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Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life
Workers of the Manchuria Film Association
Yuxin Ma
Fall 2022

The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph: cover depicting a black and white photograph of a crowd at a movie theatre. A woman and a man sitting beside each other take of the foreground of the photo. The woman has her eyes closed, seemingly asleep, but the man stares intently forward. The title text is written in an art deco font in the bottom right corner of the page within a gilded square.
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The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph
From Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices
Jan Olsson
Fall 2022

  

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 and Christian Bjørnskov
Fall 2022

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Energy in the Nordic World
Mogens Rüdiger and Anna Åberg
Fall 2022

  

The Culture of Western Europe: Illustration of a geometric mosaic consisting of various orange, blue, green, and red pieces. In the center, a large black rectangle contains the title and author text.
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The Culture of Western Europe
The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
George L. Mosse
Fall 2022

Nationalization of the Masses: Illustration of a geometric mosaic consisting of various olive, cream, blue, purple, and brown pieces. In the center, a large black rectangle contains the title and author text. Design by Jennifer Conn.
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The Nationalization of the Masses
Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich
George L. Mosse
Fall 2022

  

Best Weapon for Peace: A black and white photograph of Maria Montessori, a middle aged woman wearing a pearl necklace, looking intensely into the camera. Design by Nancy Zucker Design.
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The Best Weapon for Peace
Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights
Erica Moretti
Fall 2022

Illiberal Vanguard: a white cover with bold red text.
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Illiberal Vanguard
Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia
Alexandar Mihailovic
Fall 2022

  

Collecting Music in the Aran Islands: Cover of an abstract painting comprised of blue, white, gray, and some yellow and some red. It evokes images of waterfalls, boats, and shells, but there are no fine details. Design by TG Design.
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Collecting Music in the Aran Islands
A Century of History and Practice
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
Fall 2022

Outlaw Music in Russia: Cover depicting a collage of blurry images. The right side of the page has many dots of light speckling the photo. The title text is in bold, yellow text towards the top of the page, and the author text is contained in a red box at the bottom of the page.
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Outlaw Music in Russia
The Rise of an Unlikely Genre
Anastasia Gordienko
Fall 2022

  

As Told by Herself: cover depicting a reflection of a shadowed figure over leaf-strewn water. The title text is written in white font, almost joining the sheen of light in the relfection.
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As Told by Herself
Women's Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969
Lorna Martens
Fall 2022

The Divided States: a blue cover with a large red backslash across the page. The title text is written in contrasting white sarif font across the majority of the cover.
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The Divided States
Unraveling National Identities in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Laura J. Beard and Ricia Anne Chansky
Fall 2022

  

Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880-1963: Cover depicting a hilly horizon with the sun midway through the sky. The title text is in black all capps font with some of its letters broken.
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Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880–1963
Sean Redding
Fall 2022

Congo's Dancers: cover depicting two photographs of the same woman posed in different ways, the images cropped so that the viewer never sees her complete form. The cover is tinted blue and green, with another set of photos faintly super-imposed over the original photos, further muddling the images.
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Congo's Dancers
Women and Work in Kinshasa
Lesley Nicole Braun
Fall 2022

  

Slave Trade and Abolition: Illustration of a tropical cove with a couple of sail boats floating on the blue water and white buildings lining the horizon.
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Slave Trade and Abolition
Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda
Vanessa S. Oliveira
Fall 2022

Insults in Classical Athens: cover art of the painting 'The Death of Socrates' zoomed in on Socrates, sitting on his bed, his left arm extended into the air. His fingers are blurred, to give it the appearance that he is making a vulgar hand signal that must be censored.
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Insults in Classical Athens
Deborah Kamen
Fall 2022

  

The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World: cover art of an old statue depicting a man and woman sitting upon a ledge, the man's hands reaching across the gap between them to rest on the woman's shoulders. The statue is crumbling, showing its age. Behind it is a plain, gray background, with the title text taking up much of the top half of the cover.
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The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World
Edited by Jeffrey Beneker and Georgia Tsouvala
Fall 2022

Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar: cover depicting a person pushing a colorful street cart down an empty street. The title text is written at the bottom of the page in colors pulled from the street cart.
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Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Fall 2022

  

Repossessing Shanland: cover showing a picture of a tiger colored in three stripes: the top one is yellow, the middle is green, and the bottom is red. Design by Bruce Gore Gore Studio, Inc.
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Repossessing Shanland
Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred
Jane M. Ferguson
Fall 2022

Buried Histories: cover art of a large crowd of illustrated people, all colored red, with a blue sky above and trucks and tanks in the distance.
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Buried Histories
The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia
John Roosa
Fall 2022

  

Practical Audacity: A photograph of a black statue of a person with braids and no eyes or body. The statue is in front of modern buildings. Statue by Simon Leigh. Photo by Huge L. Gonzalez. Design by Distillery Marketing & Design.
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Practical Audacity
Black Women and International Human Rights
Stanlie James
Fall 2022
         

 

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