A State Built on Sand: How Opium Undermined Afghanistan 9780190608316, 9780190694715

Houses built on sand: Violence, sectarianism and revolution in the Middle East 9781526126474

This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues tha

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States of Neglect: How Red-State Leaders Have Failed Their Citizens and Undermined America 9781620976425, 9781620976418

As America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blu

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Walls Built on Sand: Migration, Exclusion, and Society in Kuwait 081332758X, 0813337852, 9780813337852, 9780367313906, 9780429503177

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs, Indians, East Asians, and Western

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Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 9780804777773

This work examines the British Indian colonial impact on the economy and society of nineteenth-century Afghanistan, with

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Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan

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New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State 0674290305, 9780674290303

A historian traces the origins of the modern law-and-order state to a surprising source: the liberal policies of the New

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State of Emergency: How We Win In the Country We Built 9781982173487

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How Slaves Built America 1532173423, 9781532173424

How Slaves Built America delves into the history of how slave labor helped build the US economy and many historic struct

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The Opium War

1839. Trade is the stalwart of the British Empire. China threatens Britain’s Opium trade. Britain and China go to war.

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Holocaust Versus Wehrmacht: How Hitler's "Final Solution" Undermined the German War Effort 0700620060, 9780700620067

"In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitler's other campaign, to

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