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Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In 1911, a young Peruvian boy led an American explorer and Yale historian named Hiram Bingham into the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu. Hid...
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Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure—the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, E...
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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which ”civilization” was bro...
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie”—the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slav...
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America is the True Old World, Volume II: The Promised Land
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /America is the True Old World, Volume II: The Promised Land, is the ancient American history book that you all have been awaiting on, since this ...
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San Mateo de Cangrejos: Historical Notes on a Self-Emancipated Black Community in Puerto Rico
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Originally published in Spanish in 1985 as part of a book series commissioned by Banco Popular, this slim volume makes an invaluable contribution...
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A Century of Chicano History: Empire, Nations and Migration / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This study argues for a radically new interpretation of the origins and evolution of the ethnic Mexican community across the US. This book offers...
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When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
PaperbackOriginal price $63.00 - Original price $63.00Original price $63.00$77.99$77.99 - $77.99Current price $77.99| /When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native Amer...
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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the...
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Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781835911471 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Digital Print Trendmakers Publication Date: 12-08-2023 Pages: 40 Product Dim...
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The Secret War in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union, China and Anglo-American Intelligence in the Afghan War
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan M...
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Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in c...
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America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US...
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Beyond 1619: The Atlantic Origins of American Slavery
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Bla...
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Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3: Volume 3
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the past, turbu...
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Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543: The Narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça De Vaca
HardcoverOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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Fighting Indians in the 7th United States Cavalry: Custer's Favorite Regiment
HardcoverOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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Massasoit of the Wampanoags: With a Brief Commentary On Indian Character; and Sketches of Other Great Chiefs, Tribes and Nations; Also a Chapter On
HardcoverOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribu...
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An Arab's Journey to Colonial Spanish America: The Travels of Elias Al-Mûsili in the Seventeenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 1905, the Jesuit scholar Antûn Rabbât discovered the writings of Elias al-Mûsili in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. Al-Mûsili, a seventeent...
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The Stations of the Cross in Colonial Mexico: The Via Crucis En Mexicano by Fray Agustin de Vetancurt and the Spread of a Devotion
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Walking the Stations of the Cross, the Christian faithful re-create the Passion, following the sorrowful path of Jesus Christ from condemnation to ...
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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas -- and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europ...
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Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy #1)
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and,...
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Luis Gerónimo de Oré: The World of an Andean Franciscan from the Frontiers to the Centers of Power
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780807180129 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: LSU Press Publication Date: 12-06-2023 Pages: 396