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La Cristiada: The Mexican People's War for Religious Liberty
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a world filled with constant religious intolerance and strife, it is easy to overlook a little known twentieth-century religious war that was fo...
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, Publishers Weekly One of the Best Books of 2016, NPRWinner of the...
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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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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with Chin...
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Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This book tells the story of the Sudanese revolution of 2019; of how it succeeded in bringing down the long-standing rule of President Omar al-Ba...
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate warti...
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
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 groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao...
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The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya
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 riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi.The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic ...
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Sandinistas: A Moral History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Robert J. Sierakowski's Sandinistas: A Moral History offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista Nationa...
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After Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first fo...
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by...
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The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-in...
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The Kurds in a Changing Middle East: History, Politics and Representation
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Kurds are one of the largest stateless nations in the world, numbering more than 20 million people. Their homeland lies mostly within the prese...
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The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In October 1978, a day that started like any other for Ali Mirsepassi - full of anti-Shah protests - ended in near death. He was stabbed and dumped...
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The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$140.99$140.99 - $140.99Current price $140.99| /In October 1978, a day that started like any other for Ali Mirsepassi - full of anti-Shah protests - ended in near death. He was stabbed and dumped...
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Hamas: From Resistance to Regime
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"Historical survey rather than a polemical view of the problematic Islamist movement that has both sounded the Palestinians' needs and plagued Isra...
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The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /This book, based on new research, sheds light on the history of the Social Democrat Hnchakian Party, a major Armenian revolutionary party that oper...
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Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The history of India's struggle for freedom is usually told from the perspective of the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to...
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Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China's Tragedy
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /The very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever. Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution....
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Jang-e-Azadi
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book contains the freedom struggle of India. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857-58 against the rule of the Bri...
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Mathare: An Urban Bastion of Anti-Oppression Struggle in Kenya
PaperbackOriginal price $14.62 - Original price $14.62Original price $14.62$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /History is written by the victors of any war. But what happens when the victors forget to write down their history or omit the cog of the struggle?...
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Return to Paradise
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /South Africa heads toward majority rule, yet Breytenbach is far from optimistic about its future. He sees a civil war raging and the land awash in ...
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Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Compa eras is the untold story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists ar...
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The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provok...
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