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Orientalism
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Orientalism

By Edward W. Said ,

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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
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The Nutmeg's Curse

By Amitav Ghosh ,

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The Origins of Totalitarianism
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

By Hannah Arendt ,

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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
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Empireland

By Sathnam Sanghera ,

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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
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Conquerors

By Roger Crowley ,

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A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World
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A Thirst for Empire

By Erika Rappaport ,

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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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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
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Inglorious Empire

By Shashi Tharoor ,

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Rome: An Empire's Story
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Rome

By Greg Woolf ,

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The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
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The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932

By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka ,

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Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
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Fighting for American Manhood

By Kristin L. Hoganson ,

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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
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Blood and Iron

By Katja Hoyer ,

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Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
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Border and Rule

By Harsha Walia ,

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
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The Prize

By Daniel Yergin ,

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France Since 1945
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France Since 1945

By Robert Gildea ,

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Gharbzadegi: Weststruckness
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Gharbzadegi

By Jalal Al-E Ahmad ,

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The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343
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The First English Empire

By R.R. Davies ,

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Unfamiliar Fishes
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Unfamiliar Fishes

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Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern
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Sovereignty and Authenticity

By Prasenjit Duara ,

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Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance
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Western Women and Imperialism

By Nupur Chaudhuri (editor) , Margaret Strobel (editor) ,

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Gender on Ice, Volume 10: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions
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Gender on Ice, Volume 10

By Lisa Bloom ,

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Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender & Empire Building
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Decolonizing Feminisms

By Laura E. Donaldson ,

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German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
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German Women for Empire, 1884-1945

By Lora Wildenthal ,

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The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s
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The Spectacular Modern Woman

By Liz Conor ,

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The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800
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The Military Revolution

By Geoffrey Parker ,

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The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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The Evil Necessity

By Denver Brunsman ,

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

By Erik Grimmer-Solem ,

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Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989
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Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989

By Bruce A. Elleman ,

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Race for Empire
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Race for Empire

By Takashi Fujitani ,

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The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines
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The Embarrassment of Slavery

By Michael Salman ,

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The Russian Origins of the First World War
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The Russian Origins of the First World War

By Sean McMeekin ,

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

By Jeanne Morefield ,

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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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Nationalism
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Nationalism

By Rabindranath Tagore ,

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The Willow Wand: Some Cricket Myths Explored
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The Willow Wand

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Imagining the Balkans
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Imagining the Balkans

By Maria N. Todorova ,

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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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Gangsters of Capitalism

By Jonathan M. Katz ,

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Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020
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Epidemic Empire

By Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb ,

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The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
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The School of the Americas

By Lesley Gill ,

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Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
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Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

By Cullen Murphy ,

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Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux
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Time and Antiquity in American Empire

By Mark Storey ,

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The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire
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The Roman Predicament

By Harold James ,

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Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
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Heaven's Command

By James Morris ,

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The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
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The Future is Degrowth

By Matthias Schmelzer (editor) , Andrea Vetter (editor) , Aaron Vansintjan (editor)

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"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
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"Exterminate All the Brutes"

By Sven Lindqvist , Joan Tate (translator) ,

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Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
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Bankers and Empire

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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
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Empires of the Weak

By J. C. Sharman ,

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Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World
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Visions of Empire

By Krishan Kumar ,

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Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present
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Patterns of Empire

By Julian Go ,

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Pollution Is Colonialism
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Pollution Is Colonialism

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Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
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Time's Monster

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E. H. Carr: Imperialism, War and Lessons for Post-Colonial IR
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E. H. Carr

By Haro L. Karkour ,

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The Encyclopedia of Empire
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The Encyclopedia of Empire

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Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
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Duress

By Ann Laura Stoler ,

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The Russian Moment in World History
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The Russian Moment in World History

By Marshall T. Poe ,

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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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The Dawn Watch

By Maya Jasanoff ,

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Empire of Capital
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Empire of Capital

By Ellen Meiksins Wood ,

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Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic
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Empire's Workshop

By Greg Grandin ,

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How to Read Now: Essays
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How to Read Now

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Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
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Age of Emergency

By Erik Linstrum ,

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Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism
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Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism

By Vladimir Ilich Lenin ,

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Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice
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Conan Doyle

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