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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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"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversaryStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting...
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Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Over five centuries of foreign rule—by Spain, Mexico, and the United States—Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty...
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Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Follo...
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The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climat...
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The Korean War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Dougla...
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Ecos de Nueva España. Los siglos perdidos en la historia de México / Echoes of t he New Spain: The Lost Centuries in Mexican History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Casi 300 años de historia se asoman en este original y divertido libro ilustrado que recupera los viajes, lugares, oficios, costumbres y personaj...
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together...
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The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps: The Bloody Battles and Intrigues of the Shinsengumi
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honor. And by this courage and for this honor they fought to the death."T...
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An NPR Book of the YearA Seattle Times Book of the YearWilliam E. Colby Award Winner“A beautifully written, deeply intelligent book about [a] cru...
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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
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 definitive account of the organized destruction of the Ottoman Armenians . . . No future discussion of the history will be able to ignore th...
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism By one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into...
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Vietnam Wars 1945-1990
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"This is the history of the war in Vietnam we have been waiting for. This is a marvelous achievement—meticulously documented, excitingly narrated...
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The Taken: True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug traffi...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Pr...
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Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the acclaimed scholar and reporter, a thorough and revealing account of the historic turning point in Vietnam's long struggle--the 1954 batt...
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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding.” — Kirkus Re...
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The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Arab-Israeli Wars is former President of Israel Chaim Herzog’s acclaimed history of Israel’s fight since 1947 to preserve her existence again...
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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young m...
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Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, th...
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The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A major history of Zionism and the state of Israel, for anyone interested in deepening their knowledge of the Israel-Palestine conflict and Middl...
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Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy...
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