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China's New Navy: The Evolution of Plan from the People's Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A survey of Chinese naval operational history, Li's book focuses on the major battles and important engagements of more than 1,200 Chinese naval op...
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From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
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 definitive, candid, and absorbing history of a political organization...A vital account, based on magnificent research, that shows the party a...
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The Beggar Lama: The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vi...
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Terminus: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $55.95 - Original price $55.95Original price $55.95$70.99$70.99 - $70.99Current price $70.99| /A sweeping narrative of America's imperial history and its long entanglement with China.In Terminus, Stuart Rollo examines the origins and trajecto...
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China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be ...
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakist...
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The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Concerned with the fate of the minority in the age of the nation-state, Muslim political thought in modern South Asia has often been associated wit...
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Virginia's Civil Rights Hero Curtis W. Harris Sr.
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In 1924, the Virginia State Legislature passed the Racial Integrity Act. The act banned interracial marriage down to "a single drop" of African blo...
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Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy ...
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Midnight Murders on Rock Cut Road: Racism, Terrorism, Forensics, Reconstruction
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A detailed history of the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. FBI documents, participant confessions, newspaper articles, and FBI photos are ...
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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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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, wh...
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Son
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Len and his father, Son, might as well live on different planets. If the latter is a puritanical curmudgeon in his late 80s, then Len, a recent div...
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West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Finalist, Weber-Clements PrizeLuminaries of the Harlem Renaissance--Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among others-...
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The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many ...
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Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell's Racial Realism
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Timothy J. Golden is Professor of Philosophy at Walla Walla University.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438485966 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: State...
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Seeking to Be Christian in Race Relations
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"It is probably easier to be Christian in any other area of life than it is in the area of race. Here the practice of the Christian religion seems ...
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Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years: No Deed But Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Contributions by Murali Balaji, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Christopher Cameron, Carlton Dwayne Floyd, Robert Greene II, Andre E. Johnson, Werner Lange...
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Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A few blocks southeast of the famed intersection of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri, just a stone's throw from Charlie Parker's old stomping...
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From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /An insider's account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider's account of the ca...
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From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /An insider's account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider's account of the ca...
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Petrochemical Nocturne
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Mississippi River. HAZMAT. Boxing. Suicide by cop. New Orleans Saints football. Chemical explosions. The Angola prison rodeo. Chlorine gas ghos...
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The Passport of Mallam Ilia
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The Passport of Mallam Ilia is a love story tinged with a vengeance mission. On his quest to avenge the death of his wife, Zarah, the hero, Mallam ...
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From Preaching to Meddling: A White Minister in the Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In a fascinating memoir, retired Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter shares his journey from the days of the Great Depression in Mobile, Alabama, ac...
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