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  • The Blood of Government

    Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

    by Paul A. Kramer ...
    In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration and anticolonial resistance. In this pathbreaking, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The American Colonial State in the Philippines

    Global Perspectives

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Paul A. Kramer ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional—an exercise in benevolence rather than in tyranny and exploitation. In this volume, Julian Go ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • A Short History of Laos

    The land in between

    by Grant Evans ...
    Laos, perhaps the least known country in mainland Southeast Asia, stands at the region's crossroads. This small 'land in between' is surrounded by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma-countries that, in pre-modern times, provided Lao kings with a field for territorial expansion. But more often, Laos has been a bridge between these powerful neighbours, and an arena in which they and their ... Read more

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  • A Great Place to Have a War

    America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

    by Joshua Kurlantzick ...
    The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Hun Sen's Cambodia

    by Sebastian Strangio ...
    A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of CambodiaTo many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Hate Crime

    The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas

    by Joyce King ...
    On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a forty-nine-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within twenty-four hours of the discovery of the murder, would be inextricably linked in the nation’s imagination to an exceptionally brutal, modern-day ... Read more

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  • Perfect Hostage

    A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience

    by Justin Wintle ...
    Burma is a country where, as one senior UN official puts it, “just to turn your head can mean imprisonment or death.”Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the world’s foremost inspirational revolutionary leaders. Considered to be Burma’s best hope for freedom, she has waged a war of steadfast nonviolent opposition to the country’s vicious militant regime. Because of her resistance to the brutality of the ... Read more

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  • Antisemitism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how Antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th ... Read more

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  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    by John L. Kessell ...
    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vietnam

    by Oscar E. Gilbert ...
    The author of Tanks in Hell tracks ten years of tank warfare in Vietnam, combining firsthand accounts from veterans with analysis of tactics and strategy.In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing unwelcome attention to America's first, almost covert, commitment of ground troops in South Vietnam. As ... Read more

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  • Random Musings

    Reflections of a Black Intellectual

    by Bernard Grenway ...
    Random Musings: Reflections of a Black Intellectual focuses on the various racial and cultural challenges facing African-Americans in the context of present day educational, political, and historical realities. The text touches on a wide array of issues, including the psychology of race and power, the plight of the modern black intellectual, and the need to enhance the educational standing of ... Read more

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