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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $74.00 - Original price $74.00Original price $74.00$94.99$94.99 - $94.99Current price $94.99| /Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam, the supposition that Mecca ...
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A Colonial Book Market: Peruvian Print Culture in the Age of Enlightenment
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$136.99$136.99 - $136.99Current price $136.99| /This volume provides a wholly original social history of books in late colonial Peru. From the second half of the eighteenth century onward, worksh...
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Anime's Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of c...
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Sky Blue Stone: The Turquoise Trade in World History Volume 20
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was t...
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Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Capitalism and slavery stand as the two economic phenomena that have most clearly defined the United States. Yet, despite African Americans' nearly...
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