Category - History
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Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories ...
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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bo...
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Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political ...
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The Lost World of the Kalahari
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of...
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The Silk Road: A New History
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of...
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Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A detailed history of communities of escaped slaves who survived in South Carolina swamps Maroon communities were small, secret encampments forme...
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal ...
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The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, ma...
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California ...
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In the Land of Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israe...
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Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is...
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Japan: Its History and Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes...
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political...
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Rites of Conquest: The History and Culture of Michigan's Native Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780472064472 Media Type: Paper...
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Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the co...
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Okinawa: The History of an Island People
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language…a standard work."—Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The Hist...
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Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastTo...
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Maori Religion And Mythology
PaperbackOriginal price $16.24 - Original price $16.24Original price $16.24$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousand...
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Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Long out of print, Jules Michelet's classic study of medieval superstition has been reprinted in this edition to bring the general public's atten...
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The City In History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from...
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How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question o...
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The World According to Color: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color.We ...
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of aff...
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Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Connections between what people eat and who they are—between cuisine and identity—reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...
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