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Faculty Bookshelf

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  Polly Myers, Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing
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  Laurie Sears, Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive
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  Charity Urbanski, Writing History for the King: Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography
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  Richard Kirkendall, Civil Liberties and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman
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  Vicente L. Rafael, Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
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  Margaret O'Mara, Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century

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