Aspects (Academic)/Historical
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Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
$37.00 Add to cartDuring the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on… [more below]
- Author: Ferrer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1107697786
- Language: English
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Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1934 C. L. R. James, the widely known Trinidadian intellectual, writer, and political activist, wrote the play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, which … [more below]
- Series: C.L.R. James Archives
- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0822353148
- Language: English
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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom Gregorian chant to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Kelly, Thomas Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0199730768
- Language: English
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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times)
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Re- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0465024319
- Language: English
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The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain
$21.99 Add to cartThe Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular cultu… [more below]
- Author: Goldblatt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1568585160
- Language: English
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
$38.93 Add to cartIn this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence-perpetrated by the state and by society at l… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0822360381
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Romania
$32.00 Add to cartSpanning a period of 2000 years from the Roman conquest of Dacia to the present day, A Concise History of Romania traces the development of a unique nation situated on the border between East and West… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Hitchins, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0521694132
- Language: English
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Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend
$30.99 Add to cartThe story of Willie Mays’s rookie year with the Negro American League’s Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend
Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is o
- Author: Klima, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0470400137
- Language: English
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Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements
$25.99 Add to cartEschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women’s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American s… [more below]
- Author: Cobble, Dorothy Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490540
- Language: English
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Scotty and Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train
$25.00 Add to cartWhen Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Sc… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Moore, Scotty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1617038180
- Language: English
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The History of Florida
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the heralded “definitive history” of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 year… [more below]
- Author: Gannon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0813064015
- Language: English
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The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
$17.99 Add to cartA dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II.
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and… [more below]
- Series: FDR at War
- Author: Hamilton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0544227840
- Language: English
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Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in America’s Loudest City
$21.99 Add to cartDetroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms, studios, and in the audience, blasting the music out and soaki… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 030682065X
- Language: English
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The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
$22.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and politica- Author: Hart, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190227354
- Language: English
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Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
$35.99 Add to cartThe forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. Andrew Jackson was at the forefront of the American revolution–but he never could have
- Author: Brady, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0230609503
- Language: English
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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
$26.95 Read moreWhat is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, a
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1890951528
- Language: English
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
$21.99 Add to cartNOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG
In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous que- Author: El-Hai, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1610394631
- Language: English
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
$19.99 Add to cartEye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization
On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; eac- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058295
- Language: English
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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb–“The best work ever written on this American sports legend: It’s a major reconsideratio… [more below]
- Author: Leerhsen, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1451645791
- Language: English
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The Story of America: Essays on Origins
$20.95 Add to cartFrom celebrated writer Jill Lepore, a literary and political history of American origin stories
In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates America- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0691159599
- Language: English
