18th Century
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
$20.00 Read moreA strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more th- Author: McPhee, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228694
- Language: English
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Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels–from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.
When Ludwig van Beethoven lay- Author: Martin, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 076790351X
- Language: English
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Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson
$39.99 Add to cartAn engaging investigation of how thirteen key Enlightenment figures shaped the concept of race, from the acclaimed author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely.
Over the course of the eighteenth c- Author: Curran, Andrew S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1635422248
- Language: English
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Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
$29.95 Add to cartThroughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that th… [more below]
- Author: McPhee, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 149308805X
- Language: English
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Inventing Human Rights: A History
$16.95 Add to cartHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and i… [more below]
- Author: Hunt, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331997
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-cen… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593466713
- Language: English
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The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s F… [more below]
- Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668002485
- Language: English
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Goethe: A Life in Ideas
$39.95 Add to cartA new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics. I- Author: Bell, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0691153957
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: An Intimate History
$80.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America’s founding struggle–expanding on … [more below]
- Author: Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 052565867X
- Language: English
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Dark London: A Journey Through the City’s Mysterious and Macabre Underworld
$22.99 Add to cartFrom dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian s?ances and haunted houses – not far beneath London’s everyday bustle and glitter there ha
- Author: Gray, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004249
- Language: English
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A Little History of the United States
$15.00 Add to cartA character-filled history that brings the American saga to life
The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world. This is the remarkable story of how it came to be. Beginning wit- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Davidson, James West
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283431
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$34.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Me… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014354
- Language: English
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The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
$32.00 Read moreThis new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau.
Angus Konstam, one of the world’s leading pirate expert- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1472857739
- Language: English
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This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake–the most consequential natural di
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist- Author: Molesky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 030738750X
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
$24.99 Add to cartWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the Fren
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086424
- Language: English
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
$38.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679726101
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
$29.95 Read moreNo one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental imp
- Author: Sutton, Angela C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888444
- Language: English
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Backcountry War: The Rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas Sumter
$34.95 Add to cartOver the past several decades, the history of the American Revolution in the South has undergone a transformation to better incorporate regional events into the greater narrative of the war. Among the… [more below]
- Author: Waters, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1594164312
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
$26.95 Add to cartA pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged a- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299884
- Language: English
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
$23.00 Add to cartAn epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth–a competition “with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid doub… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1984855220
- Language: English
