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Africas Gold Coast Through Portuguese Sources 1471 to 1671
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /The Portuguese produced the earliest records for regions in West Africa, none more important than the Gold Coast. This edited volume provides a uni...
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Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery...
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A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Completed shortly before Walter Rodney's assassination in June 1980, A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 provides an original, well...
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In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed a...
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The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /After centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a social and...
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Reclaiming Israel's History: Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /No history is so disputed as the history of Israel. Some see Israel's creation as a dramatic act of justice for the Jewish people. Others insist th...
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History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$162.99$162.99 - $162.99Current price $162.99| /This book brings leading historians of South Africa together to consider new methodological and theoretical approaches within the field.Product Det...
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Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722-479 BCE and written from the perspective of the ancient C...
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Matthew of Edessa's Chronicle: Volume 3
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Matthew of Edessa's Chronicle is a valuable source for the history of the Near East in the 10th-12th centuries. Matthew's work describes the period...
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History of the Vartanants Saints: Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The History of the Vartanants Saints (formerly, the History of Vartan and the Armenian War) is a major source for the Battle of Avarayr, its causes...
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History of the Vartanants Saints: Volume 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The History of the Vartanants Saints (formerly, the History of Vartan and the Armenian War) is a major source for the Battle of Avarayr, its causes...
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History of the Aghuans: Book 3
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The History of the Aghuans by Movses Dasxuranc'i (Kaghankatvatsi) is a major source for the history of the indigenous Aghuan people of Caucasia fro...
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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dyn...
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The History of Kuwait
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /The tiny country of Kuwait grabbed the world's attention during the Gulf War, during which its natural petroleum resource became the envy of its ...
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China from Empire to Nation-State
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /This translation of the Introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to En...
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Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. Bu...
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Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual ...
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The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /2012 marks the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell Palestinians. This book explores new ways of remem...
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Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. ...
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The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells t...
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selecti...
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