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Winner: Best Book Award from the Global Communication and Social Change Division at the International Communication Association

Winner: 2017 Byron Caldwell Smith Award

A rich work with much to reward the reader...
--American Journal of Archaeology

Beautifully written...
--Michigan Historical Review

Highlights the role of contextual factors, including class, in U.S. political inequality

Fall 2017

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Curating Community

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Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt

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Putting Inequality in Context

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Between Military Rule and Democracy

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Learning Legacies

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Hearing Harmony

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I Hear a Symphony

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Middle Class Union

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Showing Off, Showing Up

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Mammals of the Great Lakes Region, 3rd Ed.

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Medieval Jerusalem

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The Little Death of Self

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The Critics and the Prioress

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The Most Noble of People

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