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Affrilachia: Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature.In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X W...
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American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /From a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played by Choctaw ...
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You and Yours
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic langu...
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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and an exper...
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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, s...
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bol...
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Delirious Consumption: Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass co...
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The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in...
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The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies
HardcoverOriginal price $249.99 - Original price $249.99Original price $249.99$267.99$267.99 - $267.99Current price $267.99| /The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective on the Kashmir...
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Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that ...
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Introduction to Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture. The richness of Japan's hi...
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Clueless in Tokyo: An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A perfect introduction to Japan and Japanese culture, this illustrated culture and travel guide contains loads of original drawings as well as th...
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The Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History: From Slavery to the Enslaved
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves t...
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bol...
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The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966
HardcoverOriginal price $64.95 - Original price $64.95Original price $64.95$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization proj...
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Korean Film and History
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made--a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments o...
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Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia: The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia. It analyses the only Islamic political p...
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Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world. In fact, as Ro a...
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Ancestral Genealogies in Modern China: A Study of Lineage Organizations in Hong Kong and Mainland China
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /This book explores the remarkable phenomenon of Chinese lineages - groups of people connected through patrilineal kinship ties, which have existed ...
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Beer in East Asia: A Political Economy
HardcoverOriginal price $160.00 - Original price $160.00Original price $160.00$193.99$193.99 - $193.99Current price $193.99| /Chambers, Nuangjamnong, and their contributors look at how the development of the beer industry in East Asia presents a unique opportunity for unde...
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Voices of the Korean Comfort Women: History Rewritten from Memories
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /An innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, inc...
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The Nasirean Ethics (RLE Iran C)
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam. It appeared initially in 633...
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Arab-Iranian Relations Since the Arab Uprisings
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Unlike most writing on Arab-Iran relations, which looks at specific episodes and specific countries, this book, taking a long term view, assesses t...
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Documentary Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This textbook examines the diplomatic and historical setting within which the Arab-Israeli conflict has developed, and gives students the opportuni...
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