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The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
Seed Money
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Strategies of Containment

Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer
Japan's Infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
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Natives and Exotics

Japanese Terror in China
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Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone

Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
On the postcolony
Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan
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Imperial Genus

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812
The Ghost
Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety
The Fifth Risk
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945
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Ghosts of the Vietnam War

Japan’s Nationalist Right in the Internet Age: Online Media and Grassroots Conservative Activism
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White Coolies

The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War
The Empire of the Text
The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan
The History of Hentai Manga
Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937
Perv
As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality
The Real History of Dracula
Broca's Brain
Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan
Masculinity & Japan's Foreign Relations
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War
Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu
Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan
Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
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Writing History, Writing Trauma

Literature in the Ashes of History
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Precarious Japan

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