Category - History
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Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00Original price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /"Are you an American, or are you not?" This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one...
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
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 sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish emigration, they of...
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Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for ...
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Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Political awareness of the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations is rising in the twenty-first century; the American history of its treatment of ille...
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The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign...
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Not My Time to Die - Titanic and the Swedes on Board
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Lilly Setterdahl's Not my time to die: Titanic and the Swedes on board, presents a brief, but thorough history of the Titanic. The book describes...
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American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A comprehensive and engaging history of a century of Polish immigration and influence in Chicago. Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out i...
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North...
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Ellis Island
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 United States is considered the world's foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island....
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au of...
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A powerful and moving history of Asian Americans that spans centuries, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror. In an extraordinary blen...
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Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber's powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World Wa...
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Moving, revealing, and lovingly researched, this book is a must read, and a great read, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas—meaning...
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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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City Of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /By an acclaimed historian, a sweeping history of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: a defining American story of millions ...
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Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first cent...
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Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the...
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Immigration: An American History
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present “A masterly historical synthesis, full of wonderful...
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more...
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Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican me...
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Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor du...
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Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho: Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the early twentieth century, historical imaginings of Japan contributed to the Argentine vision of "transpacific modernity." Intellectuals suc...
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The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award for the best book in Caribbean studies from the Caribbean Studies Association This boo...
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Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexi...
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History of the Finns in Michigan
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time. Michigan's Upper Peninsula was a major destination for Finns...
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