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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
$25.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure,… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0345308239
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
$7.95 Read moreClassic collection of black history and trivia
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper featur
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0960229477
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$35.00 Read moreFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply&#- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617940
- Language: English
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Strategy: A History
$40.99 Add to cartSelected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013
In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world’s leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of st- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325154
- Language: English
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The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914
$35.00 Add to cartIt began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel–in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship … [more below]
- Author: Cothran, Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676559
- Language: English
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
$24.99 Add to cartLarry Gonick’s celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. P… [more below]
- Series: Cartoon History of the Earth (Paperback) #03
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393324036
- Language: English
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
$32.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford’s massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the … [more below]
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 23 1968
- ISBN10: 0156180359
- Language: English
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Racism: A Short History
$22.95 Add to cartA concise history of racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to today
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn’t racism appear in Europe before t- Series: Princeton Classics #106
- Author: Fredrickson, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691167052
- Language: English
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The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
$40.00 Add to cartThe world-famous reference that tells who did what when from 4500 BC to the present day–now updated for the 21st century.
“A unique, encyclopedic book–rewarding, informative, entertaining.” —The Wa- Author: Grun, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0743270037
- Language: English
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900
$35.00 Add to cartCommerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world
It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expa- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0312616112
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
$36.00 Add to cart“An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read.”
The blockbuster New York Times bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular
—The Wall Street Journal- Author: MacGregor, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124153
- Language: English
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping narrative history of world trade–from Sumer in 3000 BC to the firestorm over globalization today–that brilliantly explores trade’s colorful and contentious past and provides fresh insight
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144160
- Language: English
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Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation
$12.95 Add to cartIn 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, leading an expedition of five ships and over 270 men, set sail from Spain in search of the Spice Islands. Three years later, one ship returned to port with just 18 men. Ma… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Travel, Adventure
- Author: Pigafetta, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280993
- Language: English
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Historic Battlefields in 500 Walks
$27.99 Read moreTour hundreds of historic battlefields across the world with this captivating guide to exploring the sites where empires rose and fell.
Stretching across the millennia from prehistoric times to the 20- Series: 500 Walks
- Author: Fallon, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1667200496
- Language: English
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The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartHermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society – from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests,
and mountains, depicted in art, literature, and
- Author: Rodriguez, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736866508
- Language: English
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
$19.00 Add to cartMark Kurlansky’s first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy–with recipes throughout.
According t- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1632863839
- Language: English
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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man’s Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
$25.48 Add to cartNow part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa–and the terr
- Author: Lindqvist, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1565843592
- Language: English
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Timelines of World History
$40.00 Add to cartAn illustrated record covering all the major events and achievements in human history. Designed for history aficionados, trivia buffs, or anyone with a curious mind, Timelines of World History takes a… [more below]
- Series: DK Timelines Adult
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0744056276
- Language: English
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of End Times
In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the ke- Author: Turchin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0452288193
- Language: English
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Complete Flags of the World: The Ultimate Pocket Guide
$22.00 Add to cartExplore the fascinating world of flags!
Find intriguing stories and factoids on the design of country, province, state and special flags. Read how these flags are used as heraldic symbols, cultural an… [more below]- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0744045622
- Language: English
