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Randy Shilts was one of the most significant and controversial journalists of the late twentieth century, especially for his coverage of the AIDS pandemic in America. Michael Lee has done a stupendous job of navigating Shilts’s triumphs, and his flaws and mistakes. This book is an essential supplement to the historical record on gay liberation, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ combatants in the US military.

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This fascinating book enriches US women's labor history, complicates histories of Syrian immigration, and foregrounds the ways Syrian American workers resisted US empire. Connecting diverse geographies and modes of production, Stacy Fahrenthold highlights the significance of gendered labor and Syrian American workers in the globalizing US textile and garment industry.

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The story of the fight for literacy of Black people in the United States is one of great hope and of profound frustration. Professor Derek Black has written a magnificent book that tells this story from the earliest days of the country through today’s continuing struggles. Black’s beautifully written book reminds us of a largely forgotten history that must be remembered and be a basis for action now.

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An original and outstanding collection of papers on the interaction of indigenous knowledge, history of science and imperial power. A must read for historians, anthropologists, Latin-Americanists and anyone interested in the ethics of research in the human and social sciences

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“Ivan Marcus’s book is a major intervention in the ongoing scholarly conversation about medieval and modern ‘antisemitism,’ including the debate as to whether this is the correct word to describe the cluster of hostile attitudes toward Jews in the earlier period. He strongly defends the usage in this characteristically evenhanded but spirited and engaging study of a painful subject. It ought to command wide readership and stimulate an enormous amount of productive critical response.”

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Recreation without Humiliation is the first comprehensive study of Black amusement venues established by Black Americans for Black Americans. Mary Stanton’s extensive research on African American amusement parks in America explores not only segregation, class, and social barriers but also the notion of the ‘pursuit of happiness’ as an inalienable right for all races and classes of people.

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A wonderfully rich and detailed architectural history of Hong Kong’s first decade as a British colony that sheds new light on the consequential effects of disease and climate on what was built, by whom, and why.

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Bonnie Yochelson traces the extraordinary story of how a 19th-century upper-class social butterfly became a pioneering woman photographer who lived most of her life in a loving lesbian partnership. Alice Austen, with all her complexities and remarkable talent, comes alive in these engaging pages. Too Good to Get Married is a wonderful read.

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We are so lucky to have a gifted storyteller unearth these lost tales of our trans and nonbinary forebears, and weave them all together into this heartwarming, uplifting book. Before Gender shows that history can be both entertaining and impactful while addressing the most pressing issues for trans people today.

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Western Nicaragua’s LGBTQIA+ history is a profoundly Indigenous history,' concludes Victoria Gonzalez-Rivera. A new approach to historicize LGBTQIA+ diversity and resistance in Nicaraguan history arises with this book.

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This volume presents new research in medieval conceptions of magic, science, and the natural world, bringing not only medicine but also meteorology and navigation into the discussion.

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Rachel Carson's environmentalist tract Silent Spring was profoundly influenced by her romantic relationship with her neighbor Dorothy Freeman, according to this bracing treatise…. A stimulating blend of biography and queer theory, this intrigues.

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There is no other book like Queer Vietnam that offers such an unprecedented, gripping cultural history of gender transgression in this region of Southeast Asia. The empirical findings are rich and historical insights pathbreaking. Uncovering a riveting array of sources, Richard Tran wields interpretive evidence with critical theory judiciously to make a profound intervention in the history of sexuality.

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In this carefully researched and humane study, Bond excavates a lost history of collective labor politics in ancient Rome, revealing that everyday workers and their associations were as important as emperors and armies to the making of the Roman world.

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This is a hugely impressive achievement, a book that highlights the vitality of African societies through the continent’s long nineteenth century. Its success derives from the blend of large-scale analytical insight and intimate biographical detail, and Reid’s insistence on the enduring power of African reformism.

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In this fascinating study of the early scientific revolution, when experimental thought was beginning to emerge from Medieval scholasticism, Violet Moller brings to life the trailblazers of this new age.