Category - History
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, an...
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Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Things I'll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine ...
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Samurai: A Concise History
HardcoverOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of th...
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Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests fr...
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Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clash...
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The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This powerful work puts to rest the long-held myth that Chinese civilization is monolithic, unchanging, and perennially cut off from the rest of ...
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Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major...
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Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a ...
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History of Japan: From early history to the present day
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /History of Japan: From early history to the present day Introduction to Japan's history Are you interested in the history of Japan? Would you lik...
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War and State Building in Medieval Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged i...
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Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race
HardcoverOriginal price $38.95Original price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land–and the sinister consequencesIt was an SS mission led by two complex individuals–one who was...
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Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A reporter’s vivid account of Central Asia’s wild recent history—violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic and corrup It sounds...
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /2019 Reprint of the 1946 Edition by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Noted American anthropologist Ruth Benedict wrote this book at the invitati...
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Japan's War: The Great Pacific Conflict / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The many factors that led to Japan's participation in World War II, and the horrifying battles that resulted, come into focus in Japan's War: The...
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The Terra Cotta Army: China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The Terra Cotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses we...
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Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths n...
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The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain 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| /A compelling, lively narrative history of the peoples and cultures of the great river of Southeast Asia, The Mekong spans two thousand years—from...
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The Silk Road in World History
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterran...
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Mongolian Buddhism: The Rise and Fall of the Sangha
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Mongolian Buddhism is the first book to explore the development of Mongolia's state religion, from its formation in the thirteenth century around...
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The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal...
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The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Exposes the horrifying criminality of United States policy in Indochina during the Vietnam war. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781608463237 Media Type:...
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Coast Guard Action in Vietnam: Stories of Those Who Served
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A well-crafted and engaging history of the Coast Guar&dgrave;s unusual and dangerous involvement in Vietnam. From the haunting account of the...
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review ...
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Mumbai Fables
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A sweeping cultural history of India’s largest cityA place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just ...
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