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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
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4.11 avg rating — 829 ratings
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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America 1500-2000
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4.05 avg rating — 151 ratings
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A People's History of American Empire
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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
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3.82 avg rating — 1,621 ratings
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
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4.19 avg rating — 4,327 ratings
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Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
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3.87 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama
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3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian
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4.03 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure
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3.73 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism
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3.83 avg rating — 254 ratings
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American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism
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4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings
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How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
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3.83 avg rating — 1,199 ratings
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The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
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3.41 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City
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3.26 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
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4.25 avg rating — 67,171 ratings
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Embers Of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
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4.43 avg rating — 2,782 ratings
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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492 - 1830
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History of the Inca Empire: An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions (Texas Pan American Series)
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4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Of Empire
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3.36 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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3.89 avg rating — 7,986 ratings
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In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan
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3.86 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
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4.10 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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The Comanche Empire
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4.17 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
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3.76 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
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3.87 avg rating — 999 ratings
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Boardwalk Empire
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3.43 avg rating — 3,010 ratings
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
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3.56 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
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The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare
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3.39 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
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3.98 avg rating — 950 ratings
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Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
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3.57 avg rating — 851 ratings
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I Used to Know That: World History: Intriguing Facts About the World's Greatest Empires, Leaders, Cultures, and Conflicts
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3.56 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship (Nation Books)
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3.74 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Wars of Empire
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3.64 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus
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The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire
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3.67 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
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4.02 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays
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3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers – An Acclaimed Natural Wonder
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Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
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3.91 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey
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3.97 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
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Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
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4.25 avg rating — 77 ratings
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
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4.16 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
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3.58 avg rating — 615 ratings
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Hell Before Breakfast: America's First War Correspondents Making History and Headlines, from the Battlefields of the Civil War to the Far Reaches of the Ottoman Empire
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3.69 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
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3.73 avg rating — 4,573 ratings
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
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3.95 avg rating — 4,746 ratings
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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
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An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795
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Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico
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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
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4.18 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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MciIhenny's Gold
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Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of Empire
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3.77 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Tenochtitlan: Capital of the Aztec Empire
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Second Coming of the Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
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The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
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3.85 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
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4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
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4.28 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 – An Epic Bancroft Prize Winner About Native Americans, Entrepreneurs, and Fur Traders
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4.07 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Life of the Party: The Remarkable Story of How Brownie Wise Built, and Lost, a Tupperware Party Empire
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3.50 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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3.90 avg rating — 3,728 ratings
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Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
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3.76 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
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4.14 avg rating — 675 ratings
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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4.02 avg rating — 786 ratings
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Green Empire: The St. Joe Company and the Remaking of Florida's Panhandle
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Going to Stay: How George W. Bush Mired America in the Long War for Oil & Empire
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Labor Versus Empire
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The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt
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PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
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‘The irony of Confederate diplomacy: visions of empire, the Monroe Doctrine, and the quest for nationhood’, Journal of Southern History, 83, no. 1 (Feb. 2017).
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The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861: With a New Preface
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3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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We All Scream: The Fall of the Gifford's Ice Cream Empire
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3.80 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
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3.98 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821. Vol. 1
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
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3.87 avg rating — 2,273 ratings
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The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
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4.04 avg rating — 5,586 ratings
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
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4.22 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Aztec Empire
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Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
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3.90 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition
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Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
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American Empire: A Global History
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3.63 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
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3.43 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Perils of Empire: The Roman Republic and the American Republic
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
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Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico Strong
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Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
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Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South
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Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico
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Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq
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The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913
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The Philippine War, 1899-1902
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Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond
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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
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Cry of the People: United States Involvement in the Rise of Fascism, Torture and Murder and the Persecution of the Catholic Church in Latin America
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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
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Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
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