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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley’s Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a swee…

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Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants

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Thinking About History

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History , a general introduction to the field of history that revels…

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A Crane Among Wolves

June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace, crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today’s world, based on a true story from Korean history.

Hope is dangero…

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The Princess Diarist

The last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film se…

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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages.

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups …

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Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992

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Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System

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Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border

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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and …

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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditat…

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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial…

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Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce

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The Making of the English Working Class

This account of artisan & working-class society in its formative years, 1780-1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the 19th century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took …

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