Aspects (Academic)/Historical
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Victorians
$40.99 Add to cartAs one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers,
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 738
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325431
- Language: English
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Antarctica: A Biography
$40.99 Add to cartSince the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world’s imagination. David Day’s brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating d… [more below]
- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 642
- Publish Date: June 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0199861455
- Language: English
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Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance
$21.99 Add to cartThe year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churchill. Communism was on the march and the people of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland all found themselves i… [more below]
- Author: White, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1610392434
- Language: English
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, a History of Power from the Beginning to Ad 1760
$48.00 Add to cartDistinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military, and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this fir… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 1107635977
- Language: English
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A Legacy in Arms, 10: American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 1800-1900
$60.00 Add to cartThe history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation’s founding, westward expansion, and industrial, economic, an… [more below]
- Series: Western Legacies #10
- Author: Rattenbury, Richard C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144777
- Language: English
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The American West: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPart geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Aron, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0199858934
- Language: English
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Ian Fleming
$45.00 Add to cartWe all know who James Bond is, but how many of us know much about his creator, Ian Fleming, a master of espionage and thrillers? In this full-length biography, author Andrew Lycett tells the story of
- Author: Lycett, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037980
- Language: English
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, the Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914
$48.00 Add to cartDistinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military, and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. This second… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 844
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1107670640
- Language: English
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The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics
$30.95 Add to cartHemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a d… [more below]
- Series: Latin America Readers
- Author: Lambert, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0822352680
- Language: English
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Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (Revised)
$29.95 Add to cartOut of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acr
- Series: Library of Southern Civilization
- Author: Mills, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 0807137138
- Language: English
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
$18.95 Add to cartNow in Paperback!
Empire of Mud unearths and untangles the roots of our capital’s beginnings and explores how the city was tainted from the start, its turbulent history setting a precedent for the dis- Author: Dickey, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0762787910
- Language: English
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Boon Island: A True Story Of Mutiny, Shipwreck, And Cannibalism
$16.95 Add to cartA harrowing true tale of fraud, mutiny, shipwreck, and cannibalism on the desolate rock known as Boon Island.
- Author: Erickson, Stephen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0762777524
- Language: English
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Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll
$15.95 Add to cartAn account of the heyday of rock & roll through the lens of Allen Klein, the business manager, producer, and gadfly who “broke up the Beatles” and showed the Rolling Stones how to become the preeminen
- Author: Goodman, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0544705017
- Language: English
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Flappers
$34.99 Add to cartBy the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex–all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the
- Author: Mackrell, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535043
- Language: English
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
$20.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture “The Front Runner” starring Hugh Jackman
An NPR Best Book of the Year In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart–a dashing, reform-minded Democrat–seemed a lock for the party- Author: Bai, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0307474682
- Language: English
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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón
$42.00 Read moreIn this long-awaited study, Claudio Lomnitz tells an unprecedented story about the experience and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores M
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 598
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1935408437
- Language: English
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21st Century Ellis: Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era
$25.95 Add to cartFor years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lt. Col. “Pete” Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now the w… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Foundations
- Author: Friedman, Brett A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1612518079
- Language: English
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Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West
$24.95 Add to cartDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction
- Author: Fox, Sarah Alisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496207661
- Language: English
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Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization
$18.99 Add to cartVeteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful…globetrotting tour” (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization–the chicke… [more below]
- Author: Lawler, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1476729905
- Language: English
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Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
$21.99 Add to cartNewcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite differe… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Dunnigan, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135704
- Language: English
