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Bêtes Noires: Sorcery As History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

Bêtes Noires: Sorcery As History in the Haitian-Dominican...

Author: Lauren Derby
ISBN: 9781478029359
Format: Hardback
$277.00

Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on...  Read More >>

Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics

Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show...

Author: Oscar Winberg
ISBN: 9781469690896
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the...  Read More >>

At Home in the Cold: Domestic Culture in Arctic Exploration, 1890–1940

At Home in the Cold: Domestic Culture in Arctic Exploration,...

Author: Katherine Crooks
ISBN: 9780228025610
Format: Hardback
$103.50

At Home in the Cold brings to light the stories of five white and northern Indigenous women who travelled between...  Read More >>

Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey's Kurdish Borderlands

Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey's Kurdish...

Author: Fırat Bozçalı
ISBN: 9781503644113
Format: Hardback
$277.00

The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross...  Read More >>

Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India

Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How...

Author: Jason Jackson
ISBN: 9780674293762
Format: Hardback
$86.95

Foreign capital can catalyze economic growth in developing countries but can also be a vehicle for extraction. Jason...  Read More >>

Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities

Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing...

Author: Jessica Lopez Lyman
ISBN: 9781517920029
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An in-depth look at how Latina/x artists transform art into activism and reclaim space in the Twin Cities In Place-Keepers,...  Read More >>

Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians...

Author: Jameson R. Sweet
ISBN: 9781517920333
Format: Hardback
$270.00

An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical...  Read More >>

States of Defeat: US Imaginaries of Revolutionary Central America

States of Defeat: US Imaginaries of Revolutionary Central...

Author: Eric A. Vázquez
ISBN: 9781517919894
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The cultural reverberations of Central America's failed revolutions on US intellectual thought The thwarted Central...  Read More >>

The Eurabia Myth: Countercolonization and Masculine Fragility in France

The Eurabia Myth: Countercolonization and Masculine...

Author: Mehammed Amadeus Mack
ISBN: 9781517919399
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The roots-and reach-of ""Great Replacement"" theory in France and beyond The Eurabia Myth delves into the origins...  Read More >>

Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East

Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the...

Author: Yossef Rapoport
ISBN: 9780691210636
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror

Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror

Author: Keith Michael Baker
ISBN: 9780226820927
Format: Hardback
$82.95

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Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex

Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to...

Author: Benjamin Wilson
ISBN: 9780674976085
Format: Hardback
$86.95

Strategic stability is admired as the basis of arms control, but the doctrine is not what is commonly assumed. Benjamin...  Read More >>

Steel and Grit: A History of the Lower Hudson Valley and the Bear Mountain Bridge

Steel and Grit: A History of the Lower Hudson Valley...

Author: Barbara Hansen Cali
ISBN: 9780815611974
Format: Paperback
$89.99

Straddling the Hudson where the river begins to narrow and twist in its journey, Bear Mountain Bridge stands as...  Read More >>

Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black Thought in Higher Learning

Dissenting Forces: A History of Abolition and Black...

Author: Michael E. Jirik
ISBN: 9781479836611
Format: Hardback
$62.99

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Toward a Global History of Soil: Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300–1750

Toward a Global History of Soil: Sciences, Practices,...

Author: Justin Niermeier-Dohoney ,  Aleksandar Shopov
ISBN: 9789004727489
Format: Hardback
$224.40

When people worked with soil across the Americas and Afro-Eurasia from 1100-1800 new knowledge was unleashed that...  Read More >>

Humor and Laughter among the Pre-Hispanic Nahua: The Rabbit, the Navel and the Jester Ruler

Humor and Laughter among the Pre-Hispanic Nahua: The...

Author: Agnieszka Brylak
ISBN: 9789004745155
Format: Hardback
$314.16

Through Nahuatl and Spanish colonial texts, this study explores the roles of humor and laughter in Nahua culture,...  Read More >>

Duke Cosimo I, the Medici Navy and the Italian Wars (c.1544–1563)

Duke Cosimo I, the Medici Navy and the Italian Wars...

Author: Andrew J. Tzavaras
ISBN: 9789004747906
Format: Hardback
$359.04

Cosimo I de Medici, Duke of Florence (r. 1537-1574) constructed a navy and maritime infrastructure, founded the...  Read More >>

Representing the Middle Ages in Modern Portugal (1890–1947): Historiography, Heritage, and Commemoration

Representing the Middle Ages in Modern Portugal (1890–1947):...

Author: Pedro Martins
ISBN: 9789004712041
Format: Hardback
$348.48

How have the Middle Ages shaped Portuguese national identity in the modern age? Focusing on historiography, heritage...  Read More >>

Towards a Grammar of Roman and Neo-Latin Drama: A Tool for Analyzing Latin Drama from First-, Fourteenth-, and Fifteenth-Century Italy

Towards a Grammar of Roman and Neo-Latin Drama: A Tool...

Author: Thomas D. Kohn
ISBN: 9789004732834
Format: Hardback
$330.00

A new method for analyzing dramatic texts, focusing on 1st-century Roman and 14th- and 15th-century Italian plays....  Read More >>

Precious Cloth and Court Culture: 4th–16th Centuries

Precious Cloth and Court Culture: 4th–16th Centuries...

Author: Anna Muthesius
ISBN: 9781904597858
Format: Hardback
$388.12

This book examines the use of precious cloths in courtly settings East and West between the 4th and the 16th centuries....  Read More >>

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America,...

Author: Keith Richotte ,  Jason Grasl
ISBN: 9798228733039
Format: Audio
$105.57

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?...  Read More >>

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution

The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America,...

Author: Keith Richotte ,  Jason Grasl
ISBN: 9798228733046
Format: Audio
$121.31

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?...  Read More >>

Firestorm Lib/E: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster

Firestorm Lib/E: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's...

Author: Jacob Soboroff ,  Jacob Soboroff
ISBN: 9798228693951
Format: Audio
$176.85

From the MSNBC Senior National and Political Correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, a...  Read More >>

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

Author: Nicole Nehrig ,  Jenn Lee
ISBN: 9798228764453
Format: Audio
$105.57

A rich and intimate exploration of how women have used textile work to create meaningful lives, from ancient mythology...  Read More >>

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

Author: Nicole Nehrig ,  Jenn Lee
ISBN: 9798228764460
Format: Audio
$121.31

A rich and intimate exploration of how women have used textile work to create meaningful lives, from ancient mythology...  Read More >>

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