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Save 25% off new December books! Enter discount code 6WJAN12 in the discount code field of your shopping cart and click "update". Offer expires January 31, 2012.
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The Struggle in Black and Brown
African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era
Edited and with an introduction by Brian D. Behnken
This volume, which considers relations between blacks and browns during the civil rights era, carefully examines the complex and multifaceted realities that complicate such assumptions—and that revise our view of both the civil rights struggle and black-brown relations in recent history.
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The History of the Holocaust in Romania
Jean Ancel
Translated by Yaffah Murciano
Edited by Leon Volovici
With the assistance of Miriam Caloianu
Based on an unparalleled and exhaustive collection of original Jewish accounts and sources not available until the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu in the late 1980s, Jean Ancel provides a detailed analysis of the path of antisemitism that led to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in Romania.
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The French Colonial Mind, 2-volume set
Edited and with an introduction by Martin Thomas
What made France into an imperialist nation, ruler of a global empire with millions of dependent subjects overseas? Historians have sought answers to this question in the nation’s political situation at home and abroad, its socioeconomic circumstances, and its international ambitions.
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Screening Integration
Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France
Edited and with an introduction by Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy
North African immigrants, once confined to France’s social and cultural margins, have become a strong presence in France’s national life. Similarly, descendants of immigrants from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia have gained mainstream recognition as filmmakers and as the subject of films. The first collective volume on this topic, Screening Integration offers a sustained critical analysis of this cinema.
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Selling the Congo
A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism
Matthew G. Stanard
Selling the Congo is a study of European pro-empire propaganda in Belgium, with particular emphasis on the period 1908–60.
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Native Acts
Indian Performance, 1603-1832
Edited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke
Afterword by Philip J. Deloria
Long before the Boston Tea Party, where colonists staged a revolutionary act by masquerading as Indians, people looked to Native Americans for the symbols, imagery, and acts that showed what it meant to be “American.”
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Maryland Politics and Government
Democratic Dominance
Herbert C. Smith and John T. Willis
Tucked between the larger commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia and overshadowed by the political maneuverings of its neighbor, Washington, D.C., Maryland has often been overlooked and neglected in studies of state governmental systems. With the publication of Maryland Politics and Government, the challenging demographic diversity, geographic variety, and dynamic Democratic pragmatism of Maryland finally get their due.
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On the Edge of Purgatory
An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado
Bonnie J. Clark
Bonnie J. Clark investigates the unwritten history of this unique Hispanic population. Combining archaeological research, contemporary ethnography, and oral and documentary history, Clark examines the everyday lives of this population over time.
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