Category - History
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The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter retraces and...
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Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against ...
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Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs "Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction.”—Nature T...
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestse...
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Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In a brilliantly conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the c...
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The Kennedy -Khrushchev Letters
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, have been published for the first tim...
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The French War Against America: How a Trusted Ally Betrayed Washington and the Founding Fathers
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /By the end of 1798, France—“our oldest ally”—had captured or sunk more than eight hundred American ships, and President John Adams called George ...
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On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies ...
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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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Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In this magisterial history of Lebanon, from the end of Ottoman rule to the Hezbollah and Hamas wars of today, acclaimed and fiercely independent...
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Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid: Prospects for Resolving the Conflict
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This incisive analysis of where Palestinians and Israelis are and the possible avenues to a just and durable peace has been fully updated in the ...
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Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /With Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign pol...
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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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K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted. Khrushchev told jokes, threw ...
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The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fatef...
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Renaissance Diplomacy
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /This 1955 work is the classic history of the development of modern diplomacy in Renaissance Europe. Sometime after the year 1400, the diplomatic ...
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Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence
HardcoverOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The letters, together with other material including transcripts of speeches, press conferences, interviews, and official documents, reveal the pe...
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Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The Economist’s Tehran correspondent Christopher de Bellaigue brings to light the never-before-told full story of one of the great anti-colonial ...
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The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Russia's geographical position as both a European and an Asian power and her twin aims of promoting world revolution and establishing normal rela...
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Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956–1...
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Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"In September 1978, William Quandt, a member of the White House National Security Council staff, spent thirteen momentous days at Camp David, the...
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Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven) outlines a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social, geographic...
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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
HardcoverOriginal price $47.99Original price $47.99 - Original price $47.99Original price $47.99Current price $42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Pri...
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War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The struggles of the Israelis and Palestinians - with their terrible histories of disaster and redemption - command the obsessive attention of th...
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