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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $5.57
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi::Mahadev H. Desai
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 954.035092
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Publication Date: 1993-11-01
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a great innovator in the struggle against racism, violence, and, just then, colonialism, Gandhi feared that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding. He says that he was after truth rooted in devotion to God and attributed the turning points, successes, and challenges in his life to the will of God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices (he called himself a fruitarian), celibacy, and ahimsa, a life without violence. It is in this sense that he calls his book The Story of My Experiments with Truth, offering it also as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps. A reader expecting a complete accounting of his actions, however, will be sorely disappointed. Although Gandhi presents his episodes chronologically, he happily leaves wide gaps, such as the entire satyagraha struggle in South Africa, for which he refers the reader to another of his books. And writing for his contemporaries, he takes it for granted that the reader is familiar with the major events of his life and of the political milieu of early 20th-century India. For the objective story, try Yogesh Chadha's Gandhi: A Life. For the inner world of a man held as a criminal by the British, a hero by Muslims, and a holy man by Hindus, look no further than these experiments. --Brian Bruya
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Niall Ferguson
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.09
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Publication Date: 2004-04-13
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: At its peak in the nineteenth century, the British Empire was the largest empire ever known, governing roughly a quarter of the world's population. In Empire, Niall Ferguson explains how "an archipelago of rainy islands... came to rule the world," and examines the costs and consequences, both good and bad, of British imperialism. Though the book's breadth is impressive, it is not intended to be a comprehensive history of the British Empire; rather, Ferguson seeks to glean lessons from this history for future, or present, empires--namely America. Pointing out that the U.S. is both a product of the British Empire as well as an heir to it, he asks whether America--an "empire in denial"--should "seek to shed or to shoulder the imperial load it has inherited." As he points out in this fascinating book, there is compelling evidence for both. Observing that "the difficulty with the achievements of empire is that they are much more likely to be taken for granted than the sins of empire," Ferguson stresses that the British did do much good for humanity in their quest for domination: promotion of the free movement of goods, capital, and labor and a common rule of law and governance chief among them. "The question is not whether British imperialism was without blemish. It was not. The question is whether there could have been a less bloody path to modernity," he writes. The challenge for the U.S., he argues, is for it to use its undisputed power as a force for positive change in the world and not to fall into some of the same traps as the British before them. Covering a wide range of topics, including the rise of consumerism (initially fueled by a desire for coffee, tea, tobacco, and sugar), the biggest mass migration in history (20 million emigrants between the early 1600s and the 1950s), the impact of missionaries, the triumph of capitalism, the spread of the English language, and globalization, this is a brilliant synthesis of various topics and an extremely entertaining read. --Shawn Carkonen
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alan Taylor
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 970
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Publication Date: 2002-07-30
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss.
"Compelling, readable, and fresh, American Colonies is perhaps the most brilliant piece of synthesis in recent American historical writing." (Phillip J. Deloria, associate professor of history and American culture, University of Michigan)
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $7.34
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bartolome de Las Casas
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 980.013
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Publication Date: 1999-09-08
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: In 1542, after years of witnessing Indian suffering and slavery, Bartolome de Las Casas wrote this indictment against European exploitation and mistreatment of the native peoples of the New World. The document was dedicated to Prince Philip of Spain and appeared in published form in 1552. It carries all the urgency of a moment in history when it still seemed possible to reverse the tide.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: Monthly Review Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Aimé Césaire::Joan Pinkham::Robin D.G. Kelley
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Publisher: Monthly Review Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 325.3
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Publication Date: 2001-01-01
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Reading Level: 102
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Description: "Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role."
--Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements and has sold more than 75,000 copies to date. Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress" and "civilization" upon encountering the "savage," "uncultured," or "primitive." Here, Césaire reaffirms African values, identity, and culture, and their relevance, reminding us that "the relationship between consciousness and reality are extremely complex. . . . It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society." An interview with Césaire by the poet René Depestre is also included.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $28.21
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Daniel R. Headrick
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.48309034
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Publication Date: 1981-03-26
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Reading Level: 221
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $19.55
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Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Haunani-Kay Trask
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Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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Edition: Rev Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.9969
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Publication Date: 1999-04-01
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: This revised text includes material that builds on issues and concerns raised in the first edition. It explores issues of native Hawaiian student organizing at the University of Hawaii, the master plan of the native Hawaiian self-governing organization Ka Lahuni Hawaii and its platform on the four political arenas of sovereignty, the 1989 Hawaii declaration of the Hawaii ecumenical coalition on tourism, and a typology on racism and imperialism. Brief introductions to each of the essays bring them up to date and situate them in the native Hawaiian rights discussion.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $12.04
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Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: A. J. R. Russell-Wood
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.09712469
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Publication Date: 1998-07-08
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, historian A.J.R. Russell-Wood paints a broad portrait of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires--its birth, apotheosis, and decline. Russell-Wood shows unique insight into the diversity and balance between competing interests and priorities that characterized the Portuguese culture and its expansion, spanning four centuries's events on four different continents. 84 illustrations.
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Sale: $10.50
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Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph J. Ellis
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Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Edition: First
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.313
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Publication Date: 1999-05-15
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Reading Level: 110
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Description: An enduring mythology has grown up around the Declaration of Independence. Generations of Americans believe that Jefferson wrote it in his Philadelphia study, influenced only by the stirring of great events around him. Challenging this romantic ideal, the five historians included here find that the document was the result of many influences, and that it may have even been a collaborative writing effort on the congressional floor. Investigating various angles of the argument, the authors pose a variety of opinions on the Declaration's authorship, influences, and ultimate impact.
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter C. Mancall
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Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 1995-03-15
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Reading Level: 182
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Description: What were the English reading about the "New World" in the early decades of colonization? This unique collection explores 10 primary documents - promotional tracts, reports to monarchs, travel narratives, and the like - from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to reveal the visions and motives of those who promoted emigration and those who participated in it. An introductory essay places these documents within the historical context of Europe and the Americas during the Age of Discovery. Also included are 16 contemporary engravings of Native Americans, questions to consider when reading the documents, a chronology of exploration and colonization in the Americas, a bibliography, and an index.
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