Category - History
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A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as n...
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Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, d...
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Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writing was also the province of notaries, men trai...
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Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The Codex Chimalpahin, which consists of more than one thousand pages of Nahuatl and Spanish texts, is a life history of the only Nahua about who...
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Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, show...
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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bo...
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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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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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In the Land of Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israe...
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Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is...
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Japan: Its History and Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes...
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Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political culture Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political...
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Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the co...
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Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastTo...
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Maori Religion And Mythology
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How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question o...
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of aff...
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Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Connections between what people eat and who they are—between cuisine and identity—reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...
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From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /While the social identity of women in medieval society hinged largely on the ritual of marriage, identity for men was derived from belonging to a...
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The Everything Irish History & Heritage Book: From Brian Boru and St. Patrick to Sinn Fein and the Troubles, All You Need to Know About the Emerald Isle
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /There's more to being Irish than kissing a Blarney Stone!Few places on earth match Ireland's romantic attraction and historical legacy. Every yea...
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The Chrysanthemum And The Sword
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork explores the political, religious, and economic life of ...
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At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Remarkable.… Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us." —Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker Bringing light to the sha...
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchingsAfter World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch ...
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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancie...
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