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9781455540006 | Grand Central Pub, January 3, 2017, cover price $28.00
9781455569410 | Large print edition (Grand Central Pub, January 3, 2017), cover price $30.00

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9781478964520 | Unabridged edition (Grand Central Pub, January 3, 2017), cover price $35.00

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By James Sidbury (editor)

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9780812245103 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, July 1, 2013, cover price $59.95

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9780812223767 | Reprint edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 8, 2016), cover price $24.95

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By Susanne Scholz (editor)

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9780884141327 | Society of Biblical Literature, April 29, 2016, cover price $49.95

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9781628371307 | Society of Biblical Literature, April 29, 2016, cover price $34.95

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Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia’s contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia’s oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Bolivia’s transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and natural gas continue to steer the country under the government of Evo Morales, who renationalized hydrocarbons in 2006 and has used revenues from the sector to reduce poverty and increase infrastructure development in South America’s poorest country. The book advances chronologically from Bolivia’s earliest petroleum pioneers in the nineteenth century until the present, inserting oil into historical debates about Bolivian ethnic, racial, and environmental issues, and within development strategies by different administrations. While Bolivia is best known for its tin mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company as a way to modernize the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers and toward an oil-powered future.  

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9781943665464 | West Virginia Univ Pr, December 1, 2016, cover price $79.99 | About this edition: Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia’s contentious twentieth-century history.

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9781943665471 | Reprint edition (West Virginia Univ Pr, December 1, 2016), cover price $26.99

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9781943665426 | West Virginia Univ Pr, December 1, 2016, cover price $79.99

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9781943665433 | Reprint edition (West Virginia Univ Pr, December 1, 2016), cover price $27.99

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9781784533274 | I B Tauris & Co Ltd, January 30, 2017, cover price $30.00

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9780813584485 | Rutgers Univ Pr, October 19, 2016, cover price $90.00

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9780813584478 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, October 19, 2016), cover price $27.95

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9781783608638 | Zed Books, October 15, 2016, cover price $95.00

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9781783607983 | Reprint edition (Zed Books, October 15, 2016), cover price $22.95

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9781501116445 | Simon & Schuster, October 13, 2015, cover price $28.00

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9781501116452 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 11, 2016), cover price $17.00
9781471156519 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $17.00

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9781442394322 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 13, 2015), cover price $29.99

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By James E. Wadsworth (editor)

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9781474276832 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 6, 2016, cover price $86.00

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9781474276825 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 6, 2016), cover price $24.95

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9781845198008 | Sussex Academic Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $79.95

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9781845198015 | Sussex Academic Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $39.95

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For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas imagine community and cultural identity?  The essays in Imagining Asia in the Americas investigate the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. Focusing on a variety of locations across South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States, the book’s contributors reveal the rich diversity of Asian American identities. Yet taken together, they provide an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures.   Drawing from a rich array of source materials, including texts in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Gujarati that have never before been translated into English, this collection represents a groundbreaking work of scholarship. Through its unique comparative approach, Imagining Asia in the Americas opens up a conversation between various Asian communities within the Americas and beyond.  
By Martin A. Tsang (contributor)

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9780813585215 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 31, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America.

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9780813585208 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, August 31, 2016), cover price $27.95

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9781909014183 | 2 edition (Practical Action Pub, August 31, 2016), cover price $25.95

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Product Description: "All I have learned, I learned from books," declared Abraham Lincoln — and this book offers ample learning from the sixteenth president's wise and often witty remarks. Drawn from speeches, letters, and other sources, these thoughts and opinions range from considerations of human nature and spirituality to the burdens and privileges of the presidency along with many other topics of enduring interest...read more

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9780486806075 | Dover Pubns, August 17, 2016, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: "All I have learned, I learned from books," declared Abraham Lincoln — and this book offers ample learning from the sixteenth president's wise and often witty remarks.

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Product Description: A desperado in the shadow of the gallows recounts his life of crime in this rollicking seventeenth-century memoir. Michael Martin, better known as Captain Lightfoot, confessed his history of highway robbery to a Boston reporter shortly before his execution...read more

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9780486806129 | Dover Pubns, August 17, 2016, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A desperado in the shadow of the gallows recounts his life of crime in this rollicking seventeenth-century memoir.

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9780190224523 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $74.00

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9780190224530 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $16.95

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By Cathy Bergin (editor)

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9781474409681 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $150.00

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9781474409575 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $39.95

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