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A Brief History of the Atlantic
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and rea...
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Africa's Discovery of Europe
PaperbackOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /This groundbreaking book examines the full range of African-European encounters from an African perspective rather than from the customary European...
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A Brief History of the Mediterranean: Indispensable for Travellers
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 wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor — or indeed, anyon...
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Algeria and France, 1800-2000: Identity, Memory, Nostalgia
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The relationship between Algeria and France that formed during the 132 years of colonial rule did not end in 1962 when Algeria gained its indepen...
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Flavors of the Maghreb & Southern Italy: Recipes from the Land of the Setting Sun
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Arabic word Maghreb means "land where the sun sets." The Maghreb is a multicultural Mediterranean region of North Africa which includes Tunisia...
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New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659-2000s
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities wer...
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Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and...
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The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Churchill's first major historical work is still considered one of his most riveting. -- Library JournalIt's a great read. -- The Washington Examin...
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The Last Days of the Incas
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent di...
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Andean Cosmopolitans: Seeking Justice and Reward at the Spanish Royal Court
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Winner, Premio Flora Tristán Al Mejor Libro, Peru Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2019 After the Spanish victories over the Inca cla...
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Bonfires of Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1522-1540
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century Mexico. Patricia Lop...
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From Giles Milton, the highly acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth is a riveting historical mystery of colonial America.In...
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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /New York Times Book Review — Editors’ Choice • Chicago Tribune — "60 Best Reads for Right Now" • St. Louis Post-Dispatch — "50 Fall Books You Sho...
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Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how...
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Transnational Frontiers, Volume 29: The American West in France
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French ide...
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Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Since the 2005 urban protests in France public debate has often centered on questions of how the country has managed its relationship with its Nort...
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Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the en...
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Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975
HardcoverOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audi...
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the...
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Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessi...
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Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911: Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and Dissent
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /In this thoroughly researched account, Mansour Bonakdarian provides an in-depth exploration of the substantial British support for the Iranian co...
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The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain Took One Small Boy and Hundreds of Treasures from Ethiopia
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Part revisionist history, part treasure hunt, this is the forgotten story of Ethiopia's 'Elgin Marbles' and a young prince taken out of Africa to l...
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Lonely Planet Istanbul 10
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Lonely Planet's Istanbul is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. S...
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The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi
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 Saracen stronghold throughout the long history of the Crusades, Damascus served as the capital city for Nur al-Deen, Saladin, and other medieval ...
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