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Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900–1959	Song, Mingwei	HARDCOVER	01/18/2016	$49.95
Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan	Lin, Hsiao-ting	HARDCOVER	03/14/2016	$43.50
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945	McNeill, J. R. Engelke, Peter	PAPERBACK	04/04/2016	$22.00
Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power	Fanning, Ronan	HARDCOVER	04/25/2016	$29.95
Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland	Cadava, Geraldo L.	PAPERBACK	08/29/2016	$30.00
A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture	Mittler, Barbara	PAPERBACK	09/26/2016	$39.95
Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War	Madokoro, Laura	HARDCOVER	09/26/2016	$48.00
Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist	Beers, Laura	HARDCOVER	10/10/2016	$40.00
Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959	Li, Jianglin Wilf, Susan	HARDCOVER	10/10/2016	$40.00
The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture	Martin, Benjamin G.	HARDCOVER	10/24/2016	$43.50
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China	Gewirtz, Julian	HARDCOVER	01/02/2017	$43.00
Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan	Brecher, W. Puck	HARDCOVER	03/06/2017	$49.95
Making History Matter: Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of Imperial Japan	Yoshikawa, Lisa	HARDCOVER	03/06/2017	$49.95
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed	Walder, Andrew G.	PAPERBACK	03/20/2017	$29.95
Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China	Ransmeier, Johanna S.	HARDCOVER	03/20/2017	$54.50
German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence	Kuss, Susanne Smith, Andrew	HARDCOVER	03/27/2017	$49.50
Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents	Nagahara, Hiromu	HARDCOVER	04/10/2017	$40.00
Cuba’s Revolutionary World	Brown, Jonathan C.	HARDCOVER	04/24/2017	$40.00
Milosz: A Biography	Franaszek, Andrzej Parker, Aleksandra Parker, Michael	HARDCOVER	04/24/2017	$35.00
The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State	Mounk, Yascha	HARDCOVER	05/09/2017	$33.00
No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945	Boecking, Felix	HARDCOVER	07/10/2017	$39.95
The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World	Schayegh, Cyrus	HARDCOVER	08/28/2017	$54.50
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd	Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi	HARDCOVER	10/25/2017	$40.00
Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast: Tōhoku as Japanese Postwar Thought, 1945–2011	Hopson, Nathan	HARDCOVER	10/30/2017	$49.95
Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires	Ahmed, Faiz	HARDCOVER	11/06/2017	$53.00
Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War	Barbieri, Pierpaolo	PAPERBACK	11/06/2017	$30.00
London Fog: The Biography	Corton, Christine L.	PAPERBACK	12/01/2017	$21.00
After Ireland: Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present	Kiberd, Declan	HARDCOVER	01/08/2018	$39.95
France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic	Chapman, Herrick	HARDCOVER	01/08/2018	$48.00
China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China	van de Ven, Hans	HARDCOVER	02/12/2018	$35.00
Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church	Chappel, James	HARDCOVER	02/19/2018	$38.00
The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement	Frampton, Martyn	HARDCOVER	02/19/2018	$35.00
The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India	Engerman, David C.	HARDCOVER	02/19/2018	$35.00
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism	Slobodian, Quinn	HARDCOVER	03/16/2018	$35.00
The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi	Chapoutot, Johann Richmond Mouillot, Miranda	HARDCOVER	04/02/2018	$35.00
Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War	Leonhard, Jörn Camiller, Patrick	HARDCOVER	04/16/2018	$39.95
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France	Katz, Ethan B.	PAPERBACK	04/23/2018	$31.00
Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921–1931	Marcus, Nathan	HARDCOVER	04/30/2018	$54.50
As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis	Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita	HARDCOVER	05/07/2018	$43.00
Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century: Inequality and Redistribution, 1901–1998	Piketty, Thomas Ackerman, Seth	HARDCOVER	05/07/2018	$35.00
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church	O'Malley, John W.	HARDCOVER	05/07/2018	$24.95
Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism	Mudge, Stephanie L.	HARDCOVER	06/04/2018	$43.00
Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping	Khan, Sulmaan Wasif	HARDCOVER	07/09/2018	$37.00
Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo	Kapur, Nick	HARDCOVER	08/06/2018	$42.00
De Gaulle	Jackson, Julian	HARDCOVER	08/13/2018	$39.95	Currently unavailable
Japan in the American Century	Pyle, Kenneth B.	HARDCOVER	10/15/2018	$37.00
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow	Decker, Gunnar Lewis, Peter	HARDCOVER	11/05/2018	$39.95
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism	Hanebrink, Paul	HARDCOVER	11/05/2018	$29.95
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture	Gilburd, Eleonory	HARDCOVER	12/28/2018	$37.00
Railroads and the Transformation of China	Köll, Elisabeth	HARDCOVER	01/14/2019	$42.00

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