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Faculty Bookshelf

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  Anand Yang, Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia
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  Arbella Bet-Shlimon, City of Black Gold
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  Vicente L. Rafael, The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic. (Written by Nick Joaquin, edited and with an introduction by Vicente Rafael.)
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  Liora Halperin, The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past
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  Adam Warren, Baptism through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire
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  William Rorabaugh, Prohibition: A Concise History

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