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East Turkistan's Right to Sovereignty: Decolonization and Beyond

East Turkistan's Right to Sovereignty: Decolonization...

Author: Rukiye Turdush
ISBN: 9781666927283
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This study examines the relationship between the People’s Republic of China and the people of East Turkistan. The...  Read More >>

Artistic Traditions of Inner Eurasian Cultures: Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval Golden Ages

Artistic Traditions of Inner Eurasian Cultures: Prehistoric,...

Author: Ardi Kia
ISBN: 9781666918601
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times...  Read More >>

Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People

Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People...

Author: Bruce P. Frohnen ,  Ted V. McAllister
ISBN: 9781666914528
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book tells the story of the American character, from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Bruce P. Frohnen...  Read More >>

Plato and Demosthenes: Recovering the Old Academy

Plato and Demosthenes: Recovering the Old Academy

Author: William H. F. Altman
ISBN: 9781666920079
Format: Paperback
$68.99

In this book, William H. F. Altman turns to Demosthenes—universally regarded as Plato’s student in antiquity—and...  Read More >>

Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821

Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary...

Author: April Kalogeropoulos Householder ,  Kalomoira Anargyriou-Koumpi
ISBN: 9781666917673
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821 offers a critical look...  Read More >>

Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period: The Obligations of Power

Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian...

Author: Neal Leavitt
ISBN: 9781666915693
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book examines the ethical standard of the obligations of power articulated by philosophers Rabindrinath Tagore...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The...

Author: Kyounghoon Lee ,  John M. Frankl
ISBN: 9781666906301
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty

The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation,...

Author: Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid
ISBN: 9781666900903
Format: Paperback
$68.99

The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat,...  Read More >>

Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists

Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media...

Author: Anna Camaiti Hostert ,  Enzo Antonio Cicchino
ISBN: 9781683933687
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Trump and Mussolini depicts two historic individuals, though divided by a century--the former at the dawn of mass...  Read More >>

The Mobility Imperative: A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration

The Mobility Imperative: A Global Evolutionary Perspective...

Author: Augustin F. C. Holl
ISBN: 9781666903812
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This work explores the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward...  Read More >>

A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia: Time, Beauty, and Spirit in Kamëntšá Culture

A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia: Time,...

Author: Juan Alejandro Chindoy Chindoy
ISBN: 9781538148303
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Philosophically addressing three fundamental aspects of the Kamëntšá, an indigenous culture located in the southwest...  Read More >>

Italian Women in Basilicata: Staying Behind but Moving Forward during the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876–1914

Italian Women in Basilicata: Staying Behind but Moving...

Author: Victoria Calabrese
ISBN: 9781793607805
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book examines the women who remained behind in the southern Italian region of Basilicata during the age of...  Read More >>

Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic

Transatlantic Liverpool: Shades of the Black Atlantic...

Author: Mark Christian
ISBN: 9781793652652
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Written within the perspective of Africana critical studies, this book presents a transatlantic voyage and the depths...  Read More >>

Africa-China-Taiwan Relations, 1949–2020

Africa-China-Taiwan Relations, 1949–2020

Author: Sabella Ogbobode Abidde ,  Yen-Hsin Chen
ISBN: 9781793649683
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This book provides an insightful analysis from complementary perspectives of the seven-decades-long contest and...  Read More >>

The Walsingham Gambit: Deception, Entrapment, and Execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

The Walsingham Gambit: Deception, Entrapment, and Execution...

Author: R. Kent Tiernan ,  John J. Dziak
ISBN: 9781793647047
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Through the lens of a contemporary deception model, The Walsingham Gambit describes how the English deception planners...  Read More >>

Matthew and the Roman Military: How the Gospel Portrays and Negotiates Imperial Power

Matthew and the Roman Military: How the Gospel Portrays...

Author: John E. Christianson
ISBN: 9781978712232
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This book addresses the ways that the Gospel of Matthew portrays Roman military power. Christianson argues that...  Read More >>

A Politics of All: Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy

A Politics of All: Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy...

Author: Dean Caivano
ISBN: 9781793652591
Format: Paperback
$68.99

In this heterodox reading of Thomas Jefferson, Dean Caivano proposes a theory of democracy conceived through a politics...  Read More >>

Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading

Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading...

Author: Rod Jenks
ISBN: 9781498592055
Format: Paperback
$68.99

In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues, Rod Jenks argues that while Plato makes several attempts to show how virtue...  Read More >>

Spectral Spain: Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic Memories in Post-Franco Gothic Fiction

Spectral Spain: Haunted Houses, Silent Spaces and Traumatic...

Author: Heidi Backes
ISBN: 9781837721269
Format: Hardback
$157.95

An analysis of texts representing multiple regional cultures within Spain while examining the Gothic haunting motif...  Read More >>

Five Days in London, May 1940

Five Days in London, May 1940

Author: John Lukacs
ISBN: 9780300276510
Format: Paperback
$20.95

John Lukacs reconstructs five tense and decisive days during which Churchill and the British War Cabinet debated...  Read More >>

Tokyo Noir: In and out of Japan's underworld

Tokyo Noir: In and out of Japan's underworld

Author: Jake Adelstein
ISBN: 9781761380235
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expose, and memoir. It's 2008,...  Read More >>

Tina´7 Cht Ti Temíxw: We Come From This Land

Tina´7 Cht Ti Temíxw: We Come From This Land

Author: Squamish Nation
ISBN: 9781774583920
Format: Paperback
$54.99

A story of the Sk_wx_wu´7mesh U´xwumixw (Squamish Nation): past, present, and future. One hundred years after Sk_wx_wu´7mesh...  Read More >>

Converting Britannia: Evangelicals and British Public Life, 1770-1840

Converting Britannia: Evangelicals and British Public...

Author: Gareth Atkins
ISBN: 9781837651269
Format: Paperback
$69.84

A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine....  Read More >>

The Sheriff: The Druid Chronicles, Book Three

The Sheriff: The Druid Chronicles, Book Three

Author: A. M. Linden
ISBN: 9781647426286
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Book Three of The Druid Chronicles introduces Stefan, a Saxon warrior who has fought his way up through the ranks...  Read More >>

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