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1	Orientalism more books like this by Professor Edward W Said add to wishlist The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University, examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs. see all copies from $7.15! new only from $8.55! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering more books like this by Norman G Finkelstein add to wishlist In this study, the author interrogates the conventional accounts of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys at the ... see all copies from $4.09! new only from $8.33! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture more books like this by Philip R DeVita (Editor), James D Armstrong (Editor) add to wishlist This book consists of essays written by anthropologists and other scholars using an ethnographic perspective to interpret aspects of American culture. These essays enable readers to understand themselves better by focusing on others in their cultures, giving anthropology a comparative perspective that provides a reflective lens for understanding ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response more books like this by Peter Balakian add to wishlist A "New York Times" bestseller, this masterful history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the genocide of 195 is told from the view of American involvement in what was the first major international human rights movement in American history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History more books like this by Dana Lindaman, Kyle Ward add to wishlist By juxtaposing starkly contrasting versions of the historical events people take for granted, "History Lessons" affords readers a sometimes hilarious, often sobering look at what the world learns about America's past. see all copies from $2.26! new only from $6.46! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America more books like this by Karen Ordahl Kupperman add to wishlist In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain -- hopeful and fearful -- about the opportunity and ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $14.78! \| first editions \| SVS
7	God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World more books like this by Walter Russell Mead add to wishlist An illuminating account of the birth and rise of the global political and economic system that, sustained first by Britain and now by America, created the modern world. Walter Russell Mead, one of our most distinguished foreign policy experts, makes clear that the key to the predominance of the two countries has been the individualistic ideology ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 more books like this by Dinesh D'Souza add to wishlist The cultural wars at home and the global war on terror are usually viewed as separate problems. In this groundbreaking book, D'Souza shows that they are one and the same. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked more books like this by Andrew Kohut, Bruce Stokes add to wishlist To understand why the world has turned against the United States, the Pew Research Center undertook an unprecedented survey of world opinion--more than 91,000 respondents in fifty nations. The sobering and surprising findings are unveiled here. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Desiring Arabs more books like this by Joseph Andoni Massad add to wishlist Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather ... see all copies from $15.79! new only from $15.79! \| SVS
11 view cover	When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession more books like this by Charles Adams add to wishlist Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence when they seceded from the United States. Although conventional histories have taught ... see all copies from $7.44! new only from $10.89! \| first editions
12 view cover	Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind more books like this by Curtis A Keim add to wishlist For most Americans, the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, ferocious animals, strangely dressed tribesmen, and impenetrable jungles. Few think to question these perceptions, or how they came to be so deeply lodged in the collective American consciousness. Curtis Keims Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99!
13 view cover	Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After more books like this by Merrill D Peterson add to wishlist The persecution and suffering of the Armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the Ottoman Empire, reached a peak in the era of World War I at the hands of the Turks. Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
14 view cover	Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents more books like this by Robert Irwin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World more books like this by Mark Hertsgaard add to wishlist Hertsgard traveled the world to learn first-hand what foreigners think of the U.S. He shares these impressions, both good and bad, and uses them as jumping off points for his own reflections on some of the issues raised. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French more books like this by Stephen Clarke add to wishlist RCall him the anti-Mayle. Stephen Clarke is acerbic, insulting, un-PC and mostly hilarious.S--"San Francisco Chronicle." see all copies from $2.53! new only from $7.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815 more books like this by Robert J Allison add to wishlist The Muslim world represented an alien and foreign phenomenon for the United States in its early years as a republic (1785-1815). This book examines the American view of Muhammad as well as the differences in ideas, political power, gender relations and slavery, all of which determined American attitudes toward the Muslim world. see all copies from $9.89! new only from $19.63! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu more books like this by Yaroslav Trofimov add to wishlist Yaroslav Trofimov, who had previously worked as a reporter in the Middle East, returned to the region two days after the September 11 attack on America. He spent the following three years crisscrossing the Islamic world, from the rebel badlands of Africa's Ivory Coast to the Taliban-infested mountains of southern Afghanistan. A speaker of Arabic, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature more books like this by L. Perry Curtis add to wishlist Images of the Irish in political cartoons underwent a gradual but unmistakable change between the 1840s and the turn of the century. Depicted at first as harmless, whiskey-drinking peasants, Irishmen increasingly were represented - especially after the rise of the Fenian movement in the 1860s - as apelike monsters menacing law, order, and middle ... see all copies from $26.00! first editions
20 view cover	Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World more books like this by Philip Wayne Powell add to wishlist An exploration of 'the Black Legend' - the popular myth that colonial Spain and her military and religious agents were brutal and unrelenting in their conquest of the Americas. see all copies from $14.07! new only from $29.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783 more books like this by Stanley Weintraub add to wishlist This startling new history of the Revolutionary War, told for the first time from the perspective of both the colonists and the colonizers, demonstrates that for the Americans, it was a war of rebellion, for the British, it became their Vietnam. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.48! \| first editions
22 view cover	Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy more books like this by Loch K Johnson add to wishlist With an extremely accessible, engaging style, this brief, inexpensive book will provoke class discussions and motivate critical thinking through its analysis of American foreign policy. Loch Johnson, a renowned expert in the field, identifies and analyzes seven major shortcomings -- "sins" -- of American foreign policy that he argues have ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.56! \| SVS
23 view cover	The New American Story more books like this by Bill Bradley add to wishlist Bestselling author and three-time U.S. Senator Bill Bradley believes America is at a crossroads, and argues that a strong nation requires a stronger two-party system that tells the truth to the American people. Here, Bradley explores what it will take to make America a better, stronger, truer country. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Dangerous Nation more books like this by Robert Kagan add to wishlist From the author of the immensely influential and bestselling "Of Paradise and Power" comes a major reevaluation of America's place in the world from the colonial era to the turn of the 20th century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.77! \| first editions \| SVS
25	The counter-revolution: doctrine and action, 1789-1804 more books like this by Jacques Léon Godechot add to wishlist see all copies from $6.50! first editions

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