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The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World by Cyrus Schayegh (2017)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran by Negar Mottahedeh (2019)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears (2015)

The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico by Enrique Rodríguez Alegría (2016)

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (2016)

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

Everyday Stalinism, by Sheila Fitzpatrick (2000)

More to Read on Urban Slavery

Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life by Amy Chazkel (2011)

Great Books on Urban Foodways

Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí by Jane Mangan (2005)

Book cover of Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro by Brodwyn Fischer

A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janiero by Brodwyn Fischer (2010)

Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism

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