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Cover of "How Plague Got Rats" by Christos Lynteris, featuring a realistic illustration of a rat on a textured beige background.
How Plague Got Rats
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic

Christos Lynteris

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Cover of "The Cherokee War of 1776" by Kevin Kokomoor, featuring a historical map in dark blue tones with rivers and mountains and orange title text.
The Cherokee War of 1776
Native Destruction at the Dawn of American Independence

Kevin Kokomoor

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Cover of "The Preventioneers" by Barry R. Davis, showing a hand washing, cigarette, car crash, burning house, and windmill on a blue and yellow background.
The Preventioneers
Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries That Changed Our World

Barry R. Davis, MD, PhD
foreword by Charles Hennekens, MD, DrPH

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Cover of "The Cheese and the Worms" by Carlo Ginzburg, featuring layered yellow and brown tones over an etching of a robed man reading a book in front of a medieval town.
The Cheese and the Worms
The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg
translated by John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi, and Stephen Twilley

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
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Cover of "John Foster Dulles: Apostle of American Empire" by Bevan Sewell, featuring a photograph of Dulles at a podium addressing a crowd.
John Foster Dulles
Apostle of American Empire

Bevan Sewell

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Cover of "The Politics of the Table" by Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, featuring vintage-style anthropomorphic food items on a grey-green background.
The Politics of the Table
Nutrition and the Body in Modern Germany

Kristen Ann Ehrenberger

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Cover of "Histories of Disability in Latin America" edited by Heather Vrana and David Carey Jr., featuring black-and-white photographs of including one in a wheelchair.
Histories of Disability in Latin America

edited by Heather Vrana and David Carey Jr.

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Cover of "Generating Difference" by Andrew Wells, featuring a historical painting with four figures in a lush tropical landscape.
Generating Difference
Race and Reproduction in the British Empire, 1660–1840

Andrew Wells

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Cover of "Chinatown" by Dafeng Xu, featuring a historical illustration of a bustling street scene in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Chinatown
San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy

Dafeng Xu

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Secrecy and Safety
A Cultural History of Seizures in Modern America

Rachel Elder

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Traitor
The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical

Andy Doolen

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Just Code
Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT

edited by Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz

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Discovering the Okapi
Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma

Simon Pooley

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Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail?

Peter Agre, MD
with Seema Yasmin, MB BChir

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The Care of Foreigners
How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare

Eram Alam

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Back-Alley Abortion
A Rhetorical History

Emily Winderman

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Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters
Commerce and Empire in the Riverine West, 1750–1803

Kim M. Gruenwald

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The Novel and the Blank
A Literary History of the Book Trades in Eighteenth-Century British America

Matthew P. Brown

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Birth Politics
Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in Nigeria

Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams

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Fevered Cities
A History of Dengue Epidemics

Randall M. Packard

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