Category - History
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Black People Invented Everything: The Deep History of Indigenous Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Who Invented the traffic light? What about transportation itself? Farming? Art? Modern chemistry? Who made?Cats? What if I told you there was ONE a...
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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpos...
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Aztecs: An Interpretation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's accou...
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Telling the Truth about History
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars ove...
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Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political ...
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Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, th...
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The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book...
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /#1 National Bestseller Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the lega...
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The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A saga of love and lust, personal tensions and rivalries, antagonisms and hatreds, The Flight of the Romanovs describes the last century of the ...
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The Silk Road: A New History
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 Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of...
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Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781542561853 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing Publi...
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Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligen...
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Drawn Swords in a Distant Land: South Vietnam's Shattered Dreams
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99Original price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Drawn Swords in a Distant Land showcases the fascinating, untold story of the rise and fall of the Republic of Vietnam. Putting aside outdated id...
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal ...
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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern...
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Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Ninos ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Europe suffered through a ...
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The Makers of Civilization in Race & History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.30 - Original price $21.30Original price $21.30$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /2010 Reprint of 1929 Edition. Mr. Waddell believes that the beginning of all civilizations date from the Sumerians who were blond because they wo...
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America...
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China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A global future in the history of a single villageAfter a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lit...
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Passage to Ararat
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-A...
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
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 New York Times Notable Book of 2016 One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, Publishers Weekly One of the Best Books of 2016, NPRWinner of the...
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El Libro de la historia (The History Book)
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Grandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas¿Qué permitió el surgimiento de la democracia en la antigua Grecia? ¿Cómo conquistó España América Central ...
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Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was,...
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The Caucasus: An Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex region. Armenia...
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