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Weâre proud to see UC Press books recognized across these best-of lists! From pandemic response and climate history to teaching, art, and the politics of equity. Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good.
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The Best UC Press Books of 2025
Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good.
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/the-best-uc-press-books-of-2025
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In May 1949, Berlin became an enormous set for a film about the Berlin Airlift. We talk to Joseph Pearson, whose book, excerpted in
@filmquarterly.bsky.social
, includes a look at "The Big Lift," starring Montgomery Clift, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary.
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How Hollywood Dramatized the Berlin Airlift: A Q&A with Joseph Pearson
Both propaganda and entertainment, George Seatonâs film, "The Big Lift," released in 1950, starring Montgomery Clift, saw Hollywood dramatize the struggles of post-war Berlin and the Berlin Airlift.
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/how-hollywood-dramatized-the-berlin-airlift-a-q-a-with-joseph-pearson
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Check out the new issue of "HSNS."
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Volume 55 Issue 4-5 | Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/55/4-5
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Feminist Media Histories
13 days ago
Candace Moore considers recent television scenes that deliver intermittent jolts of queernessâhits of pleasure between the archive and the explorative viewerâto define a method that acknowledges fluctuating degrees of interest when historicizing queer television Open access!
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Film Quarterly
11 days ago
Free year-end reads from FQ's new issue! Ramzi Fawaz on Andor Andor interview with Janus Metz by Gerald Sim Maggie Hennefeld on Smashing the Patriarchy in Bologna Joseph Pearson on The Big Lift at 75 J. M. Tyree's Editor's Notebook
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Volume 79 Issue 2 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/2
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Film Quarterly
10 days ago
Thanks,
@dwhdaily.bsky.social
! "In the new Film Quarterly,
@hennefem.bsky.social
looks back on Il Cinema Ritrovato, Ramzi Fawaz writes about the politics of the Star Wars series Andor & Joseph Pearson tells the story behind The Big Lift, starring Montgomery Clift."
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A Kind of Requiem
This week: Bi Gan, Radu Jude, a new Film Quarterly, and of course, more year-end lists and polls.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/9011-a-kind-of-requiem
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Over the past decade, historians of Late Antiquity are increasingly turning to an unexpected partner: the natural sciences.
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Late Antiquity and the Paleosciences: New Frontiers
From studies of fossilized pollen, which shed light on peoplesâ use of the land, to the recovery of ancient human genomes, which help us reimagine group identities, social cohesion, and migration,âŠ
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/late-antiquity-and-the-paleosciences-new-frontiers
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The December 2025 issue of "Afterimage" is available online now.
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Volume 52 Issue 4 | Afterimage | University of California Press
Afterimage | 52 | 4 | December 2025
https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/issue/52/4
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Available online now: the new issue of the "Journal of the American Musicological Society"
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Volume 78 Issue 3 | Journal of the American Musicological Society | University of California Press
Journal of the American Musicological Society | 78 | 3 | December 2025
https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/issue/78/3
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@sah1365.bsky.social
commemorates Frank Gehry's passing with a round-up of tributes to the architect.
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Obituary: Frank O. Gehry (1929-2025) - Society of Architectural Historians
SAH marks the passing of architect Frank O. Gehry (1929-2025) on December 5, 2025, as one of the worldâs best known and visionary architects. We have cited his obituary below as well as a number ofâŠ
https://sah.org/2025/12/10/obituary-frank-o-gehry-1929-2025/
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Call for Editors: University of California Press invites applications for the editorial leadership of "The Journal of Musicology."
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"Journal of the American Musicological Society" article explores how the musical strategies used by Hollywood's Poverty Row studios in serial and other very low-budget productions are similar to the ways that modern action composers write today.
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KU musicologist quantifies extent of serialsâ score remixing by Republic Pictures
Scholar uses âKing of the Rocket Menâ as case study of creativity of Poverty Row studio
https://news.ku.edu/news/article/modern-mixmasters-have-nothing-on-poverty-row-movie-music-mavens
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Film Quarterly
15 days ago
For our year-end issue cover, FQ has No Other Choice! Inside - Film of the Year: Sinners; Series of the Year: Andor; Interview: Janus Metz on Andor; The Big Lift at 75; Dossier: Franchise Everything!; Reports: Cannes, Bologna; Editor's Notebook: Horror and Humor. Unlocked articles coming soon!!
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Thanks for the shout-out to
@iaspm-us.bsky.social
's "Journal of Popular Music Studies."
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The Day Dominican Republic Bachata Royals Conquered New York With A Secret Album
At Madison Square Garden, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce unveiled their long-rumored joint album to a packed, screaming crowd, turning a secret seven-year project into a Dominican American block party ...
https://latinamericanpost.com/life/entertainment-en/the-day-dominican-republic-bachata-royals-conquered-new-york-with-a-secret-album/
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The December 2025 issue of "Film Quarterly" includes a dossier exploring franchises; articles on "Andor" & "Sinners," representing FQâs contributions to year-end discourse on these two breakthrough productions; & much more.
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Volume 79 Issue 2 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/2
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Society of Architectural Historians
18 days ago
The December 2025 issue of JSAH is available now! SAH members can access the full-color online journal through the SAH website:
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The new Winter 2025 issue of "Resonance" includes original research articles + new contributions to the special series 'Listening to Harry Shearerâs Le Show' & 'Sound History is Cultural History.'
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Volume 6 Issue 4 | Resonance | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/res/issue/6/4
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The December 2025 issue of "Music Perception" is available online now.
online.ucpress.edu/mp/issue/43/2
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Volume 43 Issue 2 | Music Perception | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/mp/issue/43/2
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On
#GivingTuesday
UC Press reaffirms its commitment to stand strong as an independent publisher amid federal attacks on academic institutions. If our work has supported your teaching or research, please consider donating to the UC Press Foundation:
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JSTOR's reading list presenting some of the main debates in public space scholarship includes articles by
@sah1365.bsky.social
's "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" and others.
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Perspectives on Public Space: A Reading List - JSTOR Daily
This list introduces some of the main debates about public space, from park politics to political protest, public expressions of sexuality to safety and security.
https://daily.jstor.org/perspectives-on-public-space-a-reading-list/
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"Cemeteries and burial grounds are not only about the people interred there, but also, like the rituals following someoneâs death, they are just as much for the living as for the deceased." â
#TPHJournal
special issue, 'Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Massacre Sites'
online.ucpress.edu/tph/issue/47/4
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Volume 47 Issue 4 | The Public Historian | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/tph/issue/47/4
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UC Press is looking for a skilled Marketing Coordinator to help execute campaigns and keep our promotional efforts running smoothly. If youâre detail-oriented, collaborative, and ready to grow your marketing career in publishing, apply here:
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Have you read the latest issue of "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" yet? It's available online now.
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Volume 41 Issue 3 | Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/msem/issue/41/3
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'Paleoscience and the Study of Late Antiquity,' a new special issue of "Studies in Late Antiquity," edited by Timothy P. Newfield & Kristina Sessa, is available online.
online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4
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Volume 9 Issue 4 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/4
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Feminist Media Histories
27 days ago
Through an examination of the Muslim call to prayer opening Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" (1991), Pardis Dabashi's article examines certainty and doubt generated by the speculative turn in Black feminist film and media historiography. Open access today:
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Thank you to
@mesa1966.bsky.social
and all
#MESA2025
attendees for a wonderful conference in Washington DC! Our website where you can save 40% off our latest Middle East Studies books will remain up for a limited time:
www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
See you all for
#MESA2026
!
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Middle East Studies Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/middle-east-studies-association-2025
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Curious about how A.I. has really changed the classroom? Read this original piece in
@nytimes.com
by Professor Carlo Rotella, author of WHAT CAN WE GET OUT OF THIS? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Iâm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/magazine/ai-higher-education-students-teachers.html
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It's the last day of
#MESA2025
and we're only here for the morning! Stop by before noon for your last chance to check out our latest Middle East Studies books. Our website where your can save 40% off our displayed book will be up for a few weeks after the conference:
www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
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Half day for our final day at
#AARSBL2025
! Last chance to drop by to see our latest books on Religion before we head out of here for the holidays! As always, our AAR website will remain up for a few weeks so you can still save 40% as we head into the holiday season:
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Collabra: Psychology
28 days ago
Big congratulations to Simine Vazire
@simine.com
, 2025 individual winner of the
@einsteinberlin.bsky.social
Award for her work championing methodological reform in psychological science
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Simine Vazire â Einstein Foundation Award
https://award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winners-finalists/recipients-2025/simine-vazire
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"FREQUENCIES OF DECEIT is not simply a history of radio. It is a history of how states tried to speak entire worlds into beingâand of what happened when those words failed." Author Margaret Peacock on her new book and how propaganda shaped the Middle East:
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When the Radio Lied
Author Margaret Peacock on Cold War propaganda and the crisis of language in the Middle East.
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/when-the-radio-lied
28 days ago
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"Your writing is your response to what you are consuming, and ideas can come from unexpected places." THINGS UNSEEN author Ellen Muehlberger dispense valuable advice when crafting your book in our latest
#AARSBL2025
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Author Ellen Muehlberger on Building a Book
Author Ellen Muehlberger on her path to writing THINGS UNSEEN.
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/author-ellen-muehlberger-on-building-a-book
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Thanks to Ariel Dorfman and
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
for the great review of CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS by John Dinges: "Dinges confirms in these hundreds of pages what has made him such a superb investigative journalist":
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Chile Yesterday, America Today | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ariel Dorfman revisits acts of brutality in the 1970s and John Dingesâs investigation of who is to blame.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/chile-yesterday-america-today/
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Thanks to
@thelancet.com
for the great review of Seth Berkley, MD's FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity: "Berkleyâs narrative is both illuminating about this history and serves as a wake-up call":
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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A quest for vaccine equity
For those working in global health, and especially on immunisation, it is difficult not to feel despair at the headwinds in 2025 that have been blowing forcefully against decades of collective efforts...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)02179-8/abstract?rss=yes
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Thanks to
@economist.com
for including Seth Berkley, MD's FAIR DOSES: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity in their "Best Books of 2025" feature!
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The best books of 2025
Gladiators and dictators, wolves and Beatles feature in our list this year
https://www.economist.com/culture/2025/11/20/the-best-books-of-2025
28 days ago
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Good morning,
#MESA2025
attendees! It's our only full day of exhibiting so you've got all morning and afternoon to drop by and see our latest Middle East Studies books and chat with one of our editors. Visit our MESA website to save 40% off our books on display:
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28 days ago
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Another full day in the exhibit hall,
#AARSBL2025
attendees! If you haven't already gotten your headstart on beating the holiday travel rush, drop by and check out our Religion books! Or if you're already making your way home, our website is up for you save 40%:
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American Academy of Religion / Society for Biblical Literature 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/american-academy-of-religion-2025
28 days ago
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Let's kick off
#MESA2025
in the most traditional way: sharing the recipe for an Egyptian lentil soup! NILE NIGHTSHADE author Anny Gaul shares her recipe for this warming soup for chilly nights and the significance of Egyptian cuisine for our MESA author content:
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A Tomato-y Egyptian Lentil Soup for Cooler Days
Author Anny Gaul shares a cozy recipe for fall soup season that highlights the key themes in her book, "Nile Nightshade."
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a-tomato-y-lentil-soup-for-cooler-days
29 days ago
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And we're back in our Nation's Capital! Hello
@mesa1966.bsky.social
and
#MESA2025
attendees! Drop by the exhibit hall and check out our latest books in Middle East Studies! And visit our MESA website to save 40% on our displayed books throughout the conference:
www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/m...
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We're grateful to our authors for providing us with original content to share for this year's
#AARSBL2025
Read an excerpt from Christine Shepardson's A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE and her commentary on the wide questions of religion and violence:
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Excerpt from "A Memory of Violence"
An excerpt from A MEMORY OF VIOLENCE with commentary from author Christine Sheparson.
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/excerpt-from-a-memory-of-violence
29 days ago
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Morning,
#AARSBL2025
attendees! We're here all morning and afternoon so drop by and check out our latest books on Religion. If you can't make it, our AAR website has all of displayed books on sales for 40% off:
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29 days ago
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Thank you to the
@americananthro.bsky.social
and
#AAA2025NOLA
attendees for a wonderful conference. As mentioned out AAA website will remain open for a few weeks so you still have time to save 40% on our latest Anthro books:
www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
See you next year in St. Louis!
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American Anthropological Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/american-anthropological-association-2025
about 1 month ago
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"Birth is like some kind of open secret, a fact of life, a miracle, a trauma, both too precious and too abject to confront frankly." NEAR BIRTH author Andrea Ford on the role of doulas in childbirth:
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How should babies be born? The question contains worlds.
What do doula-supported births reveal about American cultural values?
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/how-should-babies-be-born-the-question-contains-worlds
about 1 month ago
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Thank you to the American Studies Association and all
#ASA2025
attendees! Our website will remain up for several weeks so you can still save 40% off our latest American Studies books. See you next year in Chicago for
#ASA2026
!
about 1 month ago
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Already our last day in The Big Easy at
#AAA2025NOLA
! Drop by before 2PM to check out our latest Anthro books. Our AAA website will remain open for a few weeks for you to save 40% off our books on display:
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about 1 month ago
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Hello
@aarweb.bsky.social
and
#AARSBL2025
attendees! With Thanksgiving a few days away, we're very thankful to be in Boston for this year's annual conference. Drop by our booth to see the latest Religion books and visit our website to save 40% on all display books:
www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
about 1 month ago
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Our last day at
#ASA2025
and it's a short one! We're here until 11AM so drop by now before we pack up for the year! If you're already on your way out or just enjoying the beautiful city of San Juan, visit our website to save 40% off our titles on display:
www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
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American Studies Association 2025
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/american-studies-association-2025
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"When a corporation donates bottled water, who drained the river in the first place?" Amy Elizabeth Stambach, author of THE CORPORATE ALIBI, asks you to consider this question and more in her
#AAA2025NOLA
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When US Corporations Play Government: Notes from Africa
Author Amy Elizabeth Stambach on Amazon's recent expansion in South Africa and imagining futures that donât rely on corporate alibis.
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/when-us-corporations-play-government-notes-from-africa
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The new December 2025 issue of "Nineteenth_Century Literature" is available online now.
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Volume 80 Issue 2-3 | Nineteenth-Century Literature | University of California Press
https://online.ucpress.edu/ncl/issue/80/2-3
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Also hiring for another position in our Marketing Department! We're looking for a Marketing Manager to manage campaigns and champion our authors. Join our mission-driven team!
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