Category - History
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Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political...
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The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds ligh...
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Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its origina...
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The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99Original price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In the spring of 1837, people panicked as financial and economic uncertainty spread within and between New York, New Orleans, and London. Althoug...
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Capitalism and the Historians / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that...
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and...
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, ha...
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns ...
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Vietnam: Asia's Rising Star
PaperbackOriginal price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Is Vietnam the world's next Tiger Economy? Can it grow like Taiwan and South Korea did when they were Tiger Economies in the 1980s and '90s? Brook ...
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year Since its U.S. debut a quarter-centur...
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The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and e...
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela DavisIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectu...
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The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. B...
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This b...
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A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...
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Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /It is well known that the Anglo American Group of companies is a major force in the economic, political, and social life of South Africa, and tha...
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