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No Peace, No War: An Anthropology Of Contemporary Armed Conflicts

By: N/A

Price: $12.49

Publisher: James Currey: October 2013

Seller ID: 101745

ISBN: 0852559356

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contained. This book takes a different approach. Anthropologists who have lived with and through the wars they describe here reflect a paradoxical assumption that to understand war we must deny it a special status. Rather than quarantine war and leave it to security specialists they attempt to grasp its character as but one among many phases or aspects of social reality, organised by social agents, made through social action. All war is long-term strugg...
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The Dominguez-Escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776

By: 'dominguez', Under

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Brigham Young University: January 1976

Seller ID: 79764

ISBN: 0842501215

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Pacific

By: Ambrose, Hugh

Price: $6.99

Publisher: NAL: March 2010

Seller ID: 93710

ISBN: 045123023X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, t...
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American Heritage June 1962

By: American Heritage

Price: $5.99

Publisher: American Heritage: January 1962

Seller ID: 72287

ISBN: B000PIPRUK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Human Record: Sources of Global History /Vol.1 to 1700/

By: Andrea, Alfred J.,Overfield, James H.

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School: January 1990

Seller ID: 91879

ISBN: 0395483999

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

By: Barry, John M.

Price: $4.79

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: April 1998

Seller ID: 93168

ISBN: 0684840022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lilli...
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

By: Beard, Mary

Price: $8.29

Publisher: Liveright: October 2014

Seller ID: 99509

ISBN: 0871408597

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people--the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or, perhaps just as important, how did they clean their teeth? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard forces us along the way to ree...
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House to House

By: Bellavia, David

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Free Press: September 2007

Seller ID: 97892

ISBN: 1416574719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Blood flows over my left hand and I lose my grip on his hair. His head snaps back against the floor. In an instant, his fists are pummeling me. I rock from his counterblows. He lands one on my injured jaw and the pain nearly blinds me. He connects with my nose, and blood and snot pour down my throat. I spit blood between my teeth and scream with him. The two of us sound like caged dogs locked in a death match. We are."
On the night of November 10, 2004, a U.S. Army infantry squad under Staff Sergeant David Bellavia entered the heart of the city of Fallujah and plunged into one of the most ...
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Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture

By: Bellesiles, Michael

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Vintage: September 2001

Seller ID: 101279

ISBN: 0375701982

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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The American Constitution: Its Origins and Development (Seventh Edition) (Vol. 1) (American Constitution, Its Origins & Development)

By: Belz, Herman,Harbison, Winfred,Kelly, Alfred H.

Price: $5.29

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: March 1991

Seller ID: 87433

ISBN: 0393960560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The hallmarks of this authoritative text have been strengthened throughout: its clear exposition of judicial rulings and their significance, its even-handed discussion of larger trends in American constitutional history, and a broad approach that brings politics and social developments to bear on constitutional cases.
The Seventh Edition also takes account of major constitutional developments of the 1980s: the constitutional implications of divided government-the situation in which rival parties respectively control the presidency and the Congress; the controversies over abortion, aff...
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Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History

By: Boller, Paul F.

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Oxford University Press: February 1999

Seller ID: 83495

ISBN: 0195121422

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In Presidential Wives, Paul Boller brings his gift for telling detail to bear on the women our Presidents married, and the result is a biographical feat--at once funny and poignant, dramatic and illuminating, covering every First Lady from Martha Washington to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Boller devotes a full chapter to each of his subjects, featuring an incisive biographical essay followed by a selection of revealing anecdotes. Through his portrayal of such a diverse group of women, Boller sheds new light on how much the institution of the presidency tells us about ourselves and our life...
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Great American Air Battles of World War II

By: Bowman, Martin W.

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc: October 1994

Seller ID: 95099

ISBN: 185310213X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Relive eleven major WWII air battles, all of which played a key role in the outcome of the war. Illustrated with rare and previously unpublished photographs.
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World War II in Photographs

By: Boyle, David

Price: $8.49

Publisher: Rebo Intl: June 2006

Seller ID: 98523

ISBN: 9036618002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Features 900 comprehensively captioned images selected from a wide variety of sources. The images in this book depict not only the combatants and battlefields, the tanks and aircraft, war leaders and diplomats but the concentration camps and factories, the workers and refugees, the old people, women and children who were also targets on the 'front line'.
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The Anatomy of Revolution

By: Brinton, Crane

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Vintage: August 1965

Seller ID: 84232

ISBN: 0394700449

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The definitive, hugely influential comparative history of the English, American, French and Russian revolutions from a renowned American scholar. "Classic" and "famous," The Anatomy of Revolution examines the patterns and processes that all revolutions share.
"Such is Professor Brinton's] wit and historical knowledge that what might have become a syllogistic hash in lesser hands turns out to be a keen and perceptive exposition and, like a well-conducted seminar, sets the mind of the reader racing off on its owns." --The New Yorker
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The Earth and Its Peoples : A Global History : Brief Edition : Third Edition : Volume I : To 1550 (v. 1, Chapters 1-14)

By: Bulliet, Richard,Crossley, Pamela,Headrick, Daniel,Hirsch, Steven,Johnson, Lyman

Price: $4.49

Publisher: Cengage Learning: May 2005

Seller ID: 87448

ISBN: 0618471154

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

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Supersonic Saints 2: More Thrilling Stories from LDS Pilots

By: Bytheway, John

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Deseret Book: August 2008

Seller ID: 100060

ISBN: 1590389115

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

By: Calloway, Colin G.

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's: April 1996

Seller ID: 89891

ISBN: 0312133545

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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American Samurai: Myth and Imagination in the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division 1941-1951

By: Cameron, Craig M.

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: January 1994

Seller ID: 87452

ISBN: 0521441684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is an innovative approach to military history which specifically links battlefield dynamics of the Pacific War to cultural, social and institutional myth among US marines of the First Division. Although it has elements of each, the book is neither a detailed campaign history nor a traditional unit history. It moves in roughly chronological order, but it is organized thematically to explore how myth and imagination shaped the marines actions. It blends a humanistic approach of letting the actors speak for themselves in letters and memoirs with insights from the social sciences.
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In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain

By: Cannadine, David

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Oxford University Press: June 2004

Seller ID: 91673

ISBN: 019517156X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

With In Churchill's Shadow, David Cannadine offers an intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the British present, often crushing efforts to shake them off. The book centers on Churchill, a titanic figure whose influence spanned the century. Though he was the savior of modern Britain, Churchill was a creature of the Victorian age. Though he proclaimed he had not become Prime Minister to "preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," in effect he was doomed to do just that. And though he has gone down in history for his defiant ora...
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What Happened When

By: Carruth, Gorton

Price: $4.99

Publisher: HarperCollins: January 1989

Seller ID: 92378

ISBN: 0060963182

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Non-Fiction - History