Category - History
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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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Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The earthshaking news of October 1998 that General Pinochet had been arrested in Britain unleashed two years of international interest in the cas...
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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million peo...
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Taiwan: A Political History / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This is a history that provides excellent background information for understanding the complexities of the current 'Taiwan problem.'. ― Foreign A...
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The Green Shirts and the Others: A History of Facism in Hungary and Romania
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This book is a newly revised edition of Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera’s classic work The Green Shirts and the Others published by the Hoover Institut...
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I Write What I Like: Selected Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to th...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The book, however, is far more than a supremely eloquent piece of occasional writing. For Burke is without a doubt the foremost conservative Brit...
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Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe: A Thousand-Year History
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /What was an “advocate” (Latin: advocatus; German: Vogt) in the Middle Ages? What responsibilities came with the position and how did they change ...
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The New Deal: A Global History
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The first history of the new deal in global contextThe New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in ...
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Tocqueville: Democracy in America Volumes 1 & 2 and Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville (Complete and Unabridged)
HardcoverOriginal price $64.99 - Original price $64.99Original price $64.99$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was a French political thinker and historian, and wrote the famous work "Democracy in America" in two volumes. ...
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Modern Algeria, Second Edition: The Origins and Development of a Nation / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Praise for the first edition:"[E]ssential reading for Maghreb specialists as well as for anyone interested in issues of nation-building and polit...
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Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to become the world's pree...
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Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C.
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 great expedition to Sicily described in the sixth and seventh books of Thucydides' history can be depicted in a variety of ways. By some, it ha...
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests t...
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The Liberal Democrats: From Hope to Despair to Where?
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A comprehensive and hard-hitting account of the Liberal Democrats' recent history that asks big questions about the party's future.Product DetailsI...
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Cubanthropy: Two Futures That Happened While You Were Busy Thinking
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Cuban art critic and curator Iván de la Nuez explores the effects of the policies that have tried to constrain or liberate Cuba in recent decades...
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Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East: Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi Borderlands, 1921-46
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /While the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called "Islamic Caliphate" have brought the debate about the ...
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State Atrophy in Syria: War, Society and Institutional Change
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /How do governments contribute to galvanizing public hostility against state institutions? And what are the consequences of undermining the state as...
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Iran's Soft Power in Afghanistan and Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This book explores Iran's soft power in two of its eastern neighbours - namely Afghanistan and Pakistan - in key areas including the cultural, reli...
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Korea: A New History of South and North
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780300259810 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Yale University Press Publication Date: 06-27-2023 Pages: 288 Product Dimens...
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Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Another India tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Mu...
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Mimi ni Shehe Mujib: Uzungumzi Nafsi wa Kiutendi
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Mwandishi huyu tajika na mtunzi, Anisur Rahman, ameandaa kazi bora ya Mimi ni Shehe Mujib: Uzungumzi Nafsi wa Kiutendi. Kazi hiyo ilinivutia kwa sa...
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balan...
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Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges, Global Implications
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /North Africa was once on the geopolitical periphery of Middle East dynamics, but it has increasingly come to shape regional trends. In addition to ...
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