The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in ...

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Routledge Handbook of African Security

Africa is home to most of the world's current conflicts, and security is a key issue. However, African security can only be understoo...

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Chapman-Andrews and The Emperor

Based on Chapman-Andrew's diary, the core of the book describes the extraordinary SOE operation in 1940 to re-instate the Emperor on ...

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Herero Heroes: A Socio-political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923

The Herero-German war led to the destruction of Herero society. Yet Herero society reemerged, reorganizing itself around the structures a...

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Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts, 4th Edition

The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteent...

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African American Connecticut Explored

The numerous essays by many of the state’s leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects begi...

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Segregated Skies: All-Black Combat Squadrons of WW II

Sandler chronicles the pioneering efforts of the all-black 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Medium Bomber Group during WW II, emphasizi...

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Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War forIndependence

We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independ...

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The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During theCivil War

Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Int...

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Eugene Bullard: World's First Black Fighter Pilot

Winner of the 2014 Moonbeam Spirit Award in Nonfiction and the Best Young Adult Book in the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, and named...

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A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten

Less than a decade ago, Forten remained a footnote in books on U.S. and African-American history. This new critical biography, the first ...

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ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of RadicalIslam

The terror masters of ISIS are determined to get America's attention. They’ve humiliated the Iraqi Army we trained and seized territor...

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Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era

In this cohesive narrative, Edward Countryman explores the American Revolution in the context of the African American experience, asking ...

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Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976

A sweeping Cold War history that challenges views of Cuba's involvement in African liberation struggles; This is a compelling account ...

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Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII'sForgotten Heroes

A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts the extraordinary story of the 76...

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Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep Southafter the Civil War

Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, creat...

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Civil War (African-American History)

Analyzes the impact of the Civil War on African Americans, discussing the division between free states and slave states, the Emancipation ...

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Africa and World War II

This volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. The essays feature new research an...

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Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye capture...

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Mukwahepo. Women Soldier Mother

In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fiance across the border into Angola. They survived hunger and war and eventua...

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