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2018 Most Downloaded
MLA members' most downloaded works from CORE last year
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1. Geraldine Heng
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages
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Downloaded 1306 times in 2018
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2. Nicky Agate, Rebecca Kennison, Stacy Konkiel, Christopher P. Long, Jason Rhody, Simone Sacchi
Humanities Values Infographic
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Downloaded 1157 times in 2018
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3. Marisa Verna
Étude sur le symbolisme
Translated book collection
Downloaded 948 times in 2018
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4. Brigitte Fielder
Animal Humanism: Race, Species, and Affective Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Abolitionism
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Downloaded 652 times in 2018
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5. Subramanian Shankar
Thugs and Bandits: Life and Law in Colonial and Epicolonial India
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Downloaded 532 times in 2018