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Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond	Kin, Ostap Hennessy, John	PAPERBACK	01/31/2023	$16.00	Not yet available
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism	Mitter, Rana	PAPERBACK	12/13/2022	$18.95	Not yet available
Kistiakovsky: The Struggle for National and Constitutional Rights in the Last Years of Tsarism	Heuman, Susan	PAPERBACK	10/15/1998	$18.95
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924	Morris, Benny Ze'evi, Dror	PAPERBACK	05/04/2021	$18.95
The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State	Mounk, Yascha	PAPERBACK	06/17/2019	$20.00
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World	Moyn, Samuel	PAPERBACK	09/17/2019	$20.00
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church	O'Malley, John W.	PAPERBACK	08/06/2019	$20.00
The Dumbarton Oaks Conversations and the United Nations, 1944–1994	May, Ernest R. Laiou, Angeliki E.	HARDCOVER	11/01/1998	$21.00
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism	Slobodian, Quinn	PAPERBACK	04/07/2020	$21.00
London Fog: The Biography	Corton, Christine L.	PAPERBACK	12/01/2017	$21.00
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism	Hanebrink, Paul	PAPERBACK	02/18/2020	$21.00
America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity, Second Edition	Craig, Campbell Logevall, Fredrik	PAPERBACK	07/14/2020	$22.00
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945	McNeill, J. R. Engelke, Peter	PAPERBACK	04/04/2016	$22.00
The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II	Zahra, Tara	PAPERBACK	03/23/2015	$22.00
Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World	Lévi-Strauss, Claude Todd, Jane Marie	HARDCOVER	03/05/2013	$22.95
The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955	Gordon, Andrew	PAPERBACK	04/15/1988	$23.00
Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972	Han, Eric C.	PAPERBACK	03/10/2020	$23.00
Latin America’s Cold War	Brands, Hal	PAPERBACK	03/05/2012	$24.00
A Monument More Lasting than Bronze: Classics in the University of Malawi, 1982–2019	McKechnie, Paul Nyamilandu, Steve Kambalu, Samson	PAPERBACK	11/15/2022	$24.50	Not yet available
Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan	Brecher, W. Puck	PAPERBACK	08/10/2021	$24.95
The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995	Ruoff, Kenneth J.	PAPERBACK	02/28/2003	$24.95
The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Chávez	Ponniah, Thomas Eastwood, Jonathan	PAPERBACK	07/01/2011	$24.95
A Short History of the Twentieth Century	Lukacs, John	HARDCOVER	10/07/2013	$24.95
Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902–1978)	Solt, John	PAPERBACK	05/23/2011	$24.95
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church	O'Malley, John W.	HARDCOVER	05/07/2018	$24.95
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China	Taylor, Jay	PAPERBACK	04/30/2011	$25.00
War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919	Dickinson, Frederick R.	PAPERBACK	02/16/2001	$25.00
Comrades!: A History of World Communism	Service, Robert	PAPERBACK	09/01/2010	$26.00
Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War	Leonhard, Jörn Camiller, Patrick	PAPERBACK	05/05/2020	$26.00
Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey	Clark, Bruce	PAPERBACK	05/15/2009	$26.00
De Gaulle	Jackson, Julian	PAPERBACK	10/29/2019	$27.00
The Muslim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement	Frampton, Martyn	PAPERBACK	12/17/2019	$27.00
When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II	O'Malley, John W.	HARDCOVER	08/20/2019	$27.00
Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany, 1918-1923	Waite, Robert G. L.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1952	$27.50	Currently unavailable
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism	Mitter, Rana	HARDCOVER	09/15/2020	$27.95
Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, With a New Afterword	Khan, Sulmaan Wasif	PAPERBACK	07/19/2022	$27.95
Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Chosŏn Korea, 1850–1910	Larsen, Kirk W.	PAPERBACK	04/01/2011	$27.95
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China	Vogel, Ezra F.	PAPERBACK	10/14/2013	$28.00
Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1933	Mace, James E.	HARDCOVER	12/29/1983	$28.50
The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle	Rieger, Bernhard	HARDCOVER	04/16/2013	$28.95
1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh	Raghavan, Srinath	HARDCOVER	11/12/2013	$29.95
After the Holodomor: The Enduring Impact of the Great Famine on Ukraine	Graziosi, Andrea Hajda, Lubomyr A. Hryn, Halyna	PAPERBACK	01/13/2014	$29.95	Currently unavailable
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed	Walder, Andrew G.	PAPERBACK	03/20/2017	$29.95
Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power	Fanning, Ronan	HARDCOVER	04/25/2016	$29.95
Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power	Smith, Sheila A.	HARDCOVER	04/08/2019	$29.95
News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945	Tworek, Heidi J. S.	HARDCOVER	03/11/2019	$29.95
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism	Hanebrink, Paul	HARDCOVER	11/05/2018	$29.95
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty	Naimark, Norman M.	HARDCOVER	10/08/2019	$29.95
Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World	Hotta, Eri	HARDCOVER	11/15/2022	$29.95	Not yet available
Empires and the Reach of the Global: 1870–1945	Ballantyne, Tony Burton, Antoinette	PAPERBACK	04/14/2014	$30.00

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