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The Meaning of the Second World War
$24.95 Add to cartThe very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Bel… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History
- Author: Mandel, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1844674797
- Language: English
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$21.99 Add to cartThe epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
“Rich…fascinating.”–The Wall Street Journal Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But - Author: Farmer, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607953
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
$19.99 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111275
- Language: English
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Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth
$32.50 Add to cartA groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope
Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo s- Author: Worster, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278977
- Language: English
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartPopulist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk–the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most r
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105828
- Language: English
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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
$25.00 Add to cartAn award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)–that the West is, and always has been, truly global.
“Those archaic- Author: Quinn, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593729803
- Language: English
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A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
$19.99 Read moreExplore the failures, mistakes, and missed opportunities that shaped history.
From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder to the unsuccessful stint in medical sc- Author: Gazur, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1789297893
- Language: English
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Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
$33.00 Add to cartA revelatory history of enslaved people’s resistance and self-emancipation, across the Atlantic world and beyond.
The ending of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery by European powers during t- Author: Hazareesingh, Sudhir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0374611076
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
$18.95 Add to cartA single boundary might, upon closer inspection, reveal eons of history–from epic tales of conquest, treaties, and alliances to intimate, all-too-human stories of love, greed, and folly. None of the … [more below]
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030822
- Language: English
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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
$35.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style.
What is going on with our atmosphere? The headli
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063374455
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices drove the early modern world econo- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281129
- Language: English
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History of the World in 500 People
$27.99 Add to cartExplore the lives of the most influential people in history, from the dawn of civilization to the present day.
History is made by the people who were there, and this book looks at the lives of 500 rem- Author: Phillips, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1667205218
- Language: English
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History of the World in 500 Buildings
$27.99 Add to cartExamine the origins, history, and influence of 500 famous buildings that have shaped civilizations around the world.
Discover the fascinating story of humanity through the lens of 500 remarkable build- Author: Collins, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1667205226
- Language: English
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The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy
$24.95 Add to cartMeet today’s almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.
With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise expla- Author: Finchelstein, Federico
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0520392493
- Language: English
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history–from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism–have been shaped not by humans b… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593240499
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$21.95 Add to cart“An extraordinary achievement.” –David Edgerton, Literary Review
“A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299086
- Language: English
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Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
$40.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of sexual emotion, sexual activity, gender relations, marriage and the family–and how Christianity has interacted with this panorama of human concerns
Few matters produce mor- Author: MacCulloch, Diarmaid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1984878670
- Language: English
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
$18.95 Add to cartScience and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth centur- Author: Spencer, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0861547306
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order: From the Nineteenth Century to the Cold War
$37.99 Add to cartThis book offers a new interpretation of the origins of the contemporary global order – the set of institutions and international practices created by the USA and its allies after the Second World War
- Author: Strikwerda, Carl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 303163893X
- Language: English
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
$26.99 Add to cartA wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time–listed in accessible and succinct form–by one of the world’s greatest scholars.
From the “Hundred- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0743235533
- Language: English
