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1	The Case for Israel more books like this by Professor Alan M Dershowitz add to wishlist The celebrated Alan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard, writes a passionate brief in defense of Israel, seeking to reclaim legitimacy for the Jewish state and its right to defend its borders. In the process, he tries to sort out the thorny differences between legitimate criticism and anti-Semitism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Second Contact more books like this by Harry Turtledove add to wishlist The first book in the Colonization series tracks the post-alien-invasion events of author Turtledove's alternate-world saga begun in the Worldwar series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tower and the Hive more books like this by Anne McCaffrey add to wishlist In this, the fifth book in the Rowen series, the policies of the powerful Rowen clan come under attack when the alien Mrdinis start to take advantage of the colonization treaties the two peoples have signed. Meanwhile, the unrest created by these territorial squabbles allows the Hivers, another alien race, to advance their plans of conquest. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment more books like this by David J Weber add to wishlist Two centuries after Cortes and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways and often possessing firearms, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by ... see all copies from $8.01! new only from $11.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Scramble for Africa more books like this by Muriel Evelyn Chamberlain add to wishlist This is the first major revision of this key Seminar Study which was originally published in 1974. The book contrasts the Victorian image of Africa with what has been revealed by late twentieth-century research on the history of Africa. Professor Chamberlain uses case histories from Egypt to Zimbabwe to examine the European partition and conquest ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.42! \| SVS
6	Scramble for Africa... more books like this by Thomas Pakenham add to wishlist The extraordinary race for African territory that began in the 1880's and swept the political masters of Europe off their feet. see all copies from $6.18! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The colonizer and the colonized more books like this by Albert Memmi add to wishlist This study of colonial oppression was written before the Franco-Algerian war and predicted the outcome and aftermath of that war. It reveals the springs and mechanisms common to all forms of oppression of one group by another and speaks to all who have experience of the Third World whether they live in the Third World or the First, for in ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350 more books like this by Robert Bartlett add to wishlist This book shows Europe to have been as much a product of a process of conquest and colonization as, in later years, a colonizer beyond its own borders. Concentrates upon the establishment of states by conquest and the peopling of distant countries by immigrants along the peripheries of the European continent. He asks what development in language, ... see all copies from $13.94! new only from $16.17! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain more books like this by Nicholas B Dirks add to wishlist Many have told of the East India Company's extraordinary excesses in 18th Century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men - Warren Hastings - was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company's exploits to the ... see all copies from $5.42! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Idea of Latin America more books like this by Walter D Mignolo add to wishlist "The Idea of Latin America" is a geo-political manifesto which insists on the need to leave behind an idea which belonged to the nation-building mentality of nineteenth-century Europe. It charts the history of the concept of Latin America from its emergence in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century through various permutations to the ... see all copies from $22.25! new only from $22.25! \| SVS
11 view cover	Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History more books like this by Frederick Cooper add to wishlist In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to ... see all copies from $13.81! new only from $21.51! \| SVS
12 view cover	This Our Dark Country: The American Settlers of Liberia more books like this by Catherine Reef (Illustrator) add to wishlist An award-winning author presents a significant but relatively unexplored chapter in African-American history--the 1822 founding of the African country of Liberia by free blacks and former slaves from America. Drawing on diaries and letters, this account features period photographs and prints. see all copies from $5.12! new only from $9.06! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present more books like this by Chris Gosden, Richard Bradley (Editor), Sue Alcock (Editor) add to wishlist Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of colonialism, from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Aztecs, to the colonies of modern European states. In this innovative study, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. ... see all copies from $22.95! new only from $24.45! \| first editions
14 view cover	Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands more books like this by James F Brooks add to wishlist This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among Native American and Euroamerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and ... see all copies from $19.99! new only from $29.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism & Geographical Change more books like this by Cole Harris, Richard C Harris add to wishlist see all copies from $13.99! new only from $26.35!
16 view cover	Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska more books like this by Stuart Banner add to wishlist During the 19th century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $35.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, Ad 1000-2000 more books like this by Mi Heckenberger add to wishlist Examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology. see all copies from $34.48! new only from $34.48! \| SVS
18 view cover	Colonial North America and the Atlantic World: A History in Documents more books like this by Brett Rushforth, Paul Mapp add to wishlist A comprehensive collection of primary documents for readers of early American and Atlantic history, "Colonial North America and the Atlantic World" gives voice to the men and women-Amerindian, African, and European-who together forged a new world. These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective ... see all copies from $34.34! new only from $53.37! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia more books like this by Henry Reynolds add to wishlist The publication of "The Other Side of the Frontier" in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a classic of Australian history. Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, the book describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways ... see all copies from $9.09! new only from $23.77! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands more books like this by Jeremy Salt add to wishlist Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commentators since September 11, 2001: 'Why do they hate us?' Jeremy Salt offers the background essential for understanding the Middle East today by chronicling ... see all copies from $11.85! new only from $15.50! \| SVS
21 view cover	The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 more books like this by Thomas Pakenham add to wishlist In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European powers had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and protectorates and 10 million square miles of new territory, and 110 million bewildered new subjects. This work provides an account of the conquest of Africa. We are ... see all copies from $2.22! new only from $12.94! \| first editions
22 view cover	Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940 more books like this by Ibrahim K Sundiata add to wishlist Unprecedented in scope and detail, "Brothers and Strangers" is a vivid history of how, during the interwar years, the mythic Africa of the black American imagination ran into the realities of Africa the place. Tracking the fate of Marcus Garvey's early-twentieth-century back-to-Africa movement, Ibrahim Sundiata explores the paradox at its core. ... see all copies from $8.70! new only from $24.93! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	From Mukogodo to Maasai: Ethnicity and Cultural Change in Kenya more books like this by Lee Cronk add to wishlist Explores the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Can one change one's ethnicity? Can an entire ethnic group change its ethnicity? This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Until the 1920s and 1930s, the Mukogodo were Cushitic-speaking foragers (hunters, gatherers, ... see all copies from $2.74! new only from $2.99! \| SVS
24	Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World more books like this by Robert A. Goldberg add to wishlist see all copies from $35.00! first editions
25 view cover	Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America more books like this by Robert Blair St George (Editor) add to wishlist Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the ... see all copies from $4.10! new only from $20.46! \| first editions

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