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Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a wi...
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Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A reporter’s vivid account of Central Asia’s wild recent history—violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic and corrup It sounds...
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Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge From Nazism
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the 1930s, many tens of thousands of people fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe found refuge in Latin America. And in the short, terrifying months b...
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Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and A...
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The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010–11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East. Yet, these events have not reshaped...
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Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of ...
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Lebanon: A House Divided
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A beautifully written, often profound account." —Chicago Sun-Times With a new introduction by the author, a seminal study of Lebanon’s past, pre...
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The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a...
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The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Seventh Million is the first book to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on ...
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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most brutal, yet least examined, episodes of genocide and detention The Killing Season ...
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The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An unprecedented look at secret documents showing the deliberate nature of the Armenian genocideIntroducing new evidence from more than 600 secre...
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Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its s...
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The Algerian Dream: Youth and the Quest for Dignity
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Few outsiders have had the privilege to get to know Algeria and its youth so intimately-or to observe firsthand this pivotal chapter in the natio...
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The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. Political scientist Gilbert Achcar an...
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Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, c...
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Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel ...
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Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the em...
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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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Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide
HardcoverOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate ...
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1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"A marvelous achievement . . . Anyone curious about the extraordinary six days of Arab-Israeli war will learn much from it."—The EconomistTom Seg...
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The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /If someone who is rich and powerful comes to you for a favor, you don't persecute him – you help him. Having such a person indebted to you is a g...
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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings u...
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Modern Chinese History: Revised and Expanded Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The second edition of Modern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. Organized aroun...
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Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second ...
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