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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped t...
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Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the Frenc...
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Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander's stu...
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Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the 1940s South, it seemed that non-Black Latino people were on the road to whiteness. In fact, in many places throughout the region governed by...
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Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In the 1940s South, it seemed that non-Black Latino people were on the road to whiteness. In fact, in many places throughout the region governed by...
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Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...
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Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigrati...
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General Jo Shelby's March
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /One of the most remarkable but surprisingly little known stories of the post–Civil War era is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confedera...
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The Smugglers' World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
HardcoverOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, a...
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Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020 Winner, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society of Architectural...
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The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat...
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Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Mexico Mystique Frank Waters draws us deeply into the ancient but still-living myths of Mexico. To reveal their hidden meanings and their powe...
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Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of Us Military Bases in World War II Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of coope...
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These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars--fueled b...
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The Border: Journeys Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, the World's Most Consequential Divide
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /David Danelo spent three months traveling the 1,952 miles that separate the United States and Mexico--a journey that took him across four states an...
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican ...
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Contesting the Borderlands: Interviews on the Early Southwest
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French...
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Federico Villalba's Texas: The Story of a Mexican Pioneer's Life in the Big Bend
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fifteen miles sou...
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
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 New York Times bestseller!“Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review"Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal“Entertaining and well-...
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Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer Memories from Oxnard's Barrio
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural e...
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Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer Memories from Oxnard's Barrio
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural e...
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Latino Almanac: From Early Explorers to Corporate Leaders
HardcoverOriginal price $74.95Original price $74.95 - Original price $74.95Original price $74.95Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Nearly 650 biographies of history-making Latinos Explores the Latino identity in the United States today, the history of Hispanic Americans, as we...
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Step Step Jump - Transforming Trauma to Triumph from the 46th Floor
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Quintero's debut memoir combines riveting storytelling, compelling insight, and triumphant lived experience to bring depth and meaning to one of mo...
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Step Step Jump: Transforming Trauma to Triumph from the 46th floor
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Quintero's debut memoir combines riveting storytelling, compelling insight, and triumphant lived experience to bring depth and meaning to one of mo...
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