Category - History
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Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been written by the island's colonizers, only the victors were celebrated. With th...
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The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to anne...
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Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico: How Politics Destroyed an Economic Miracle
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Who is to blame for the economic and political crisis in Puerto Rico—the United States or Puerto Rico? This book provides a fascinating historica...
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Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, the f...
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Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Kwasi Kwarteng is the child of parents whose lives were shaped as subjects of the British Empire, first in their native Ghana, then as British im...
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Haiti: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philipp...
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In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonial...
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Settlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 19...
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Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decr...
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A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A fresh and penetrating exploration of South Africa’s history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present“I did not ...
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Culture and Imperialism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the cultur...
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The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. French Protestant exiles fleeing persecution following the Revocation of the Edict o...
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Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $46.00 - Original price $46.00Original price $46.00$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /In the 1880s, Europeans descended on Africa and grabbed vast swaths of the continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Rogue...
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German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence
HardcoverOriginal price $53.00 - Original price $53.00Original price $53.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama War in Southwest Africa, and the Maji Maj...
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A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decad...
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Boundaries of Belonging: English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655-1715
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In the decades following England's 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and competing claims--to ...
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history...
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Vida y Hacienda: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /VIDA Y HACIENDA: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DR. PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS is the first biography of the renowned revolutionary leader from Puerto Rico to be ...
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Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings That Created the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The story of the exploration and birth of America is told afresh through the unique prism of hand-colored maps and engravings of the period.Before ...
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We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark le...
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Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and sc...
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Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believ...
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Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in H...
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Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Royals on Tour explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with...
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