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Title	Author	Format	Publication Date	Price	Select Item
Radical Inequalities: China's Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective	Dillon, Nara	HARDCOVER	10/12/2015	$49.95
The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945	Park, Sunyoung	HARDCOVER	04/20/2015	$49.95
Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision	Sheehan, Brett	HARDCOVER	04/09/2015	$52.50
Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China	Rojas, Carlos	HARDCOVER	04/06/2015	$52.50
Wilhelm Reich, Biologist	Strick, James E.	HARDCOVER	04/06/2015	$46.50
The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II	Zahra, Tara	PAPERBACK	03/23/2015	$21.00
The Korean Economy: From a Miraculous Past to a Sustainable Future	Eichengreen, Barry Lim, Wonhyuk Park, Yung Chul Perkins, Dwight H.	HARDCOVER	03/16/2015	$49.95
Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba	Gerard, Emmanuel Kuklick, Bruce	HARDCOVER	02/10/2015	$35.50
Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World	Masuda, Hajimu	HARDCOVER	02/09/2015	$46.50
Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice	Kushner, Barak	HARDCOVER	01/05/2015	$52.50
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman	Avrich, Paul Avrich, Karen	PAPERBACK	11/24/2014	$30.00
Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination	Ihrig, Stefan	HARDCOVER	11/20/2014	$40.00
The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio	Ortabasi, Melek	HARDCOVER	09/15/2014	$49.95
Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism	Bolton, Jonathan	PAPERBACK	09/01/2014	$30.00
The Conquest of the Russian Arctic	Josephson, Paul R.	HARDCOVER	06/09/2014	$65.50
Greek Mythologies: Antiquity and Surrealism	Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios	HARDCOVER	06/02/2014	$65.00
Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972	Han, Eric C.	HARDCOVER	06/02/2014	$39.95
Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty	Eksteins, Modris	PAPERBACK	05/05/2014	$30.00
The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s	Sollors, Werner	HARDCOVER	04/28/2014	$40.00
Global Markets Transformed: 1870–1945	Topik, Steven C. Wells, Allen	PAPERBACK	04/21/2014	$30.00
Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood	Maier, Charles S.	PAPERBACK	04/21/2014	$30.00
Migrations and Belongings: 1870–1945	Hoerder, Dirk	PAPERBACK	04/21/2014	$30.00
Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World: 1870–1945	Rosenberg, Emily S.	PAPERBACK	04/21/2014	$30.00
Empires and the Reach of the Global: 1870–1945	Ballantyne, Tony Burton, Antoinette	PAPERBACK	04/14/2014	$30.00
Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe	Guterl, Matthew Pratt	HARDCOVER	04/14/2014	$40.00
Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World	Husain, Aiyaz	HARDCOVER	04/14/2014	$58.50
Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan	Shimoda, Hiraku	HARDCOVER	03/10/2014	$39.95
American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World	Reynolds, Anita Hutchinson, George	HARDCOVER	02/24/2014	$40.00
Modern Archaics: Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900–1937	Wu, Shengqing	HARDCOVER	01/20/2014	$49.95
Global Interdependence: The World after 1945	Iriye, Akira	HARDCOVER	01/14/2014	$48.00
After the Holodomor: The Enduring Impact of the Great Famine on Ukraine	Graziosi, Andrea Hajda, Lubomyr A. Hryn, Halyna	PAPERBACK	01/13/2014	$29.95	Currently unavailable
Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain	Epstein, Katherine C.	HARDCOVER	01/02/2014	$53.50
Literature in the First Media Age: Britain between the Wars	Trotter, David	HARDCOVER	12/31/2013	$40.00
Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan	Fujiki, Hideaki	HARDCOVER	11/25/2013	$49.95
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918	Stevenson, David	PAPERBACK	11/18/2013	$30.00
1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh	Raghavan, Srinath	HARDCOVER	11/12/2013	$29.95
Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide	Wang, Xiaojue	HARDCOVER	10/21/2013	$39.95
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China	Vogel, Ezra F.	PAPERBACK	10/14/2013	$27.00
A Short History of the Twentieth Century	Lukacs, John	HARDCOVER	10/07/2013	$24.95
Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s	Keys, Barbara J.	PAPERBACK	09/09/2013	$32.50
The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia	Cullather, Nick	PAPERBACK	09/09/2013	$30.00
The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea	Hanscom, Christopher P.	HARDCOVER	08/26/2013	$39.95
Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security, and Institutional Rebalancing	Mo, Jongryn Weingast, Barry R.	HARDCOVER	08/19/2013	$39.95
The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past	Kozlov, Denis	HARDCOVER	06/10/2013	$67.50
On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan	Bayliss, Jeffrey Paul	HARDCOVER	04/29/2013	$45.00
The Lius of Shanghai	Cochran, Sherman Hsieh, Andrew	HARDCOVER	04/22/2013	$48.00
The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle	Rieger, Bernhard	HARDCOVER	04/16/2013	$28.95
Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912	Kim, Hwansoo Ilmee	HARDCOVER	03/11/2013	$49.95
An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937	Han, Jung-Sun N.	HARDCOVER	03/11/2013	$39.95
The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea	Kim, Byung-Kook Vogel, Ezra F.	PAPERBACK	03/11/2013	$30.00

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