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Everfair
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Everfair

By Nisi Shawl ,

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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
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Conquerors

By Roger Crowley ,

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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640
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Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

By David Wheat ,

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Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
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Empires in World History

By Jane Burbank , Frederick Cooper ,

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Dance on the Volcano
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Dance on the Volcano

By Marie Vieux-Chauvet ,

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The Summer Country
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The Summer Country

By Lauren Willig ,

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The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
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The Hungry Empire

By Lizzie Collingham ,

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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

By Mark G. Hanna ,

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American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
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American Baroque

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The Vandemonian War
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The Vandemonian War

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The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817
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The Sydney Wars

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Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform
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Progressive New World

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Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919
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Learning Empire

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Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945
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Brokers of Empire

By Jun Uchida ,

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Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
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Nation-Empire

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Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
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Africa as a Living Laboratory

By Helen Tilley ,

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Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection
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Empires Without Imperialism

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Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire
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Reordering the World

By Duncan Bell ,

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Terra Nullius
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Terra Nullius

By Claire G. Coleman ,

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The Jamestown Brides
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The Jamestown Brides

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Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
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Natchez Country

By George Edward Milne ,

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Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
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Defiance of the Patriots

By Benjamin L. Carp ,

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Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism
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Taxing Colonial Africa

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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
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Alabama in Africa

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The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
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The Guardians

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Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome it
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Tinderbox

By Craig Timberg , Daniel Halperin ,

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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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Embers of War

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The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World
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The Bonds of Family

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The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State
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The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III

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Freedom's Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution
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Freedom's Debtors

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Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain
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Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

By Catherine Hall , Nicholas Draper , Keith McClelland , Katie Donington , Rachel Lang

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