Sexuality in China : histories of power & pleasure / edited by Howard Chiang.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: writing the history of sexuality in China -- Polygyny and its discontents: a key to understanding traditional Chinese society -- Between topics and sources: researching the history of sexuality in Imperial China -- The pornographic doctrine of a loyalist Ming novel: social decline and sexual disorder in preposterous words (Guwangyan) -- Bertrand Russell and Ellen Key in China: individualism, free love, and eugenics in the May Fourth era -- "A problem of glands and secretions": female criminality, murder, and sexuality in Republican China -- Changing sex in the urban press: scientific modernity and the shaping of transsexual subjects in twentieth-century China -- A reparative return to "queer socialism": male same-sex desire in the cultural revolution -- The irony of size: male smallness and the rise of China -- Sex and work: HIV/AIDS and elite masculinity in contemporary China -- Glossary of Chinese characters -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Home, uprooted : oral histories of India's partition / Devika Chawla. by Chawla, Devika

“…India History Partition, 1947 Personal narratives.…”
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Are girls necessary? : lesbian writing and modern histories / Julie Abraham. by Abraham, Julie

Table of Contents: “…Willa Cather's New World Histories; 2. Mary Renault's Greek Drama; Part II: "Love Is Writing"; 3. …”
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Histories of the immediate present : inventing architectural modernism / Anthony Vidler. by Vidler, Anthony

Subjects: “…Architectural criticism Europe History 20th century.…”
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Female gothic histories : gender, history and the gothic / Diana Wallace. by Wallace, Diana, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Murder of the Mother: Sophia Lee's The Recess (1783-5) -- Be-witched and Ghosted: Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Historical Tales -- Puzzling over the Past: Vernon Lee's Fantastic Stories -- Displacing the Past: Daphne du Maurier and the Modern Gothic -- Queer as History: Sarah Waters's Gothic Historical Novels.…”
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Children and childhood in colonial Nigerian histories / edited by Saheed Aderinto.

Subjects: “…Children Nigeria History 20th century.…”
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Toledo Cathedral : building histories in medieval Castile / Tom Nickson. by Nickson, Tom, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1 On the Edge, at the Center -- CHAPTER 1 The City -- PART 2 Building Histories -- CHAPTER 2 Design -- CHAPTER 3 Rodrigo's Project -- CHAPTER 4 Between Córdoba and Paris -- CHAPTER 5 The Exemplary Form -- PART 3 The Living Church -- CHAPTER 6 The Cathedral of Memory -- CHAPTER 7 Cults -- CHAPTER 8 Urbs Regia -- CHAPTER 9 Cathedral and City -- CHAPTER 10 Art and Belief…”
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Intertwined histories : plants in their social contexts / edited by Jim Ellis.

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The palmetto book : histories and mysteries of the cabbage palm / Jono Miller. by Miller, Jono

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The Holocaust, Israel and the ""Jew"" : Histories of Antisemitism in Postwar Dutch Society. by Ensel, Remco

Subjects: “…Antisemitism Netherlands History 20th century.…”
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Harnessing Globalization : a Review of East Asian Case Histories. by Wan, Henry Y.

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Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures by Salazkina, Masha

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Cotents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures -- Part I. Medium Specificity and Expanded Media Ecologies -- 1. …”
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Israel and Palestine : competing histories / Mike Berry and Greg Philo. by Berry, Mike, 1967-

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The other Zions : the lost histories of Jewish nations / Eric Maroney. by Maroney, Eric

Table of Contents: “…A neutral piece of land: the Jewish state -- So if the king of Israel should come with his men: the lost tribes in history and myth -- King Solomon loved many strange women: the Jewish kingdom of Ethiopia -- Though we are far from Zion: the Khazar Jewish kingdom -- And Jews were independent of any gentile yoke: the Jewish tribes of the Hijaz and the Jewish kingdom of Himyar (Yemen) -- In the manner of the Jewish tradition: the Jewish kingdom of Adiabene -- They have no settled, agreed beliefs: the Kahina and the Berber Jews -- A Jewish national state: the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobizhan -- Who is a Jew? …”
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Hidden histories : Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean / Basem L. Raʻad. by Raʻad, Basem L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : understanding the history of the eastern Mediterranean ---- Part I. …”
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Novel Histories : British Women Writing History, 1760-1830. by Kasmer, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Literariness of History -- "My heart will stand the test" -- Traditional Genre and Naive Historical Narrative -- Political Critique in Sophia Lee's The Recess and Ann Yearsley's Earl Goodwin -- The "Collapse" of History and the Imaginary -- Helen Maria Williams and the "Regendering" of History -- Jane Porter's Novel Histories -- Mary Shelley's Foreclosed History in Valperga -- "Narrativity" and Feminist History -- "The worthy associates of the best efforts of the best men" -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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Tower and slab : histories of global mass housing / Florian Urban. by Urban, Florian

“…Histories of global mass housing…”

Modernity unbound : other histories of architectural modernity / Detlef Mertins. by Mertins, Detlef

Histories of Transnational Crime edited by Gerben Bruinsma.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Criminology and Transnational Crime Gerben Bruinsma -- Chapter 2: Historical Piracy and its Impact Bruce Elleman -- Chapter 3: History of Slavery, Human Smuggling and Trafficking 1860-2010 Marlou Schrover -- Chapter 4: The Arms Traffic in World History Jonathan Grant -- Chapter 5: The Criminalization of Drugs. …”
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Water design : environment and histories / edited by Jutta Jain-Neubauer.

Subjects: “…Water and architecture India History. sh 87004491…”