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Selected Faculty eBooks

Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity
Medieval Monstrosity:Imagining the Monstrous in Medieval Europe
book: Racism and the Making of Gay Rights : A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity : Intellectual and Material Transformations.
Empire of Convicts : Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia
book: Menace to Empire : Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State
book: The Sovereign Trickster : Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte
book: The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past
book cover: Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
book: Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan
book cover: City of Black Gold : Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk
Citizens of Scandal : Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico
The Code : Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
book cover: Saltwater Slavery : A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
Women in the Sky : Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea
book cover: The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq
book cover: The Promise of the Foreign : Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines
book cover: The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire
book cover: Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales
book cover: Writing History for the King: Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography
book cover: Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
book cover: Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West
book cover: The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs
book cover: Sex and the Weimar Republic : German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis
book cover: Inescapable ecologies: a history of environment, disease, and knowledge
book cover: Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
book cover: Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
book cover: Motherless Tongues: the Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
book cover: Emperor Huizong
book cover: Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain
book cover: France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times
book cover: The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance
book cover: After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945–1948
book cover: Silencing Race : Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico
book cover: Jewish Salonica : Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece
book cover: Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948
book cover: Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World
book cover: Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland
book cover: Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms
book cover: Politics of the womb: women, reproduction, and the state in Kenya
book cover: The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era
book cover: The Afterlife of Empire
book cover: Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory
book cover: Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories
book cover: Risky Shores : Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific
book cover: Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History
book cover: Southern Diaspora : How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
book cover: Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific
book cover: Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, & Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920
book cover: From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy : The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
book cover: Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar

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Browsing for History Books In Suzzallo

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while the medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for history are listed below with the Suzzallo floor where they are located.

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DK Russia 4
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