Chronological Period/17th Century
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A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
$18.99 Add to cart“An absorbing, perceptive biography…Deftly crafted history illuminates the nation’s earliest days.” —Kirkus Reviews
Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea- Author: Mack, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1641605987
- Language: English
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Lewis & Clark (in Their Own Words)
$0.00 Read moreI Set out at 4oClock P.M. in the presence of many neighboring inhabitents inhabitants], and proceeded on under a jentle brease up the Missouri.William Clark’s journal entry for May 14, 1804, marks th
- Series: In Their Own Words
- Author: Sullivan, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 0439095530
- Language: English
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The Pilgrim’s Progress
$7.95 Add to cartIt is a masterpiece of religious allegory transformed into intense drama, its style unsurpassed, its characters superbly individualized, indelibly alive, and as memorable as the landmarks on Christian… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531299
- Language: English
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Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
$16.95 Read moreTackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiff’s much-lauded book The Witches: Salem, 1692, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features unique scratchboard illustrations, chilling primary sou… [more below]
- Author: Schanzer, Rosalyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1426308698
- Language: English
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Pensées and Other Writings
$11.95 Add to cartFor much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540365
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter
$7.99 Read moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743487567
- Language: English
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
$29.00 Add to cartSchama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781242
- Language: English
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1632
$9.99 Add to cartFREEDOM AND JUSTICE — AMERICAN STYLE
1632 And in northern Germany things couldn’t get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unsc- Series: Ring of Fire
- Author: Flint, Eric
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0671319728
- Language: English
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From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625
$73.99 Add to cartA reference tool that provides an overview of the history of Christian political thought with selections from second century to the seventeenth century.
From the second century to the seventeenth, from
- Author: O’Donovan, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 858
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0802842097
- 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 American People
$26.99 Add to cart“As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson’s] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confidence shaped a great nation. It is a compe
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: February 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0060930349
- Language: English
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Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
$22.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more t- Author: Finkel, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0465023975
- Language: English
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The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’ Epic Defense of the British Empire
$28.99 Read moreThe British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to des… [more below]
- Author: Gilley, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1684512174
- Language: English
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Forever Amber
$24.99 Add to cartAbandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve i… [more below]
- Series: Rediscovered Classics
- Author: Winsor, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1556524048
- Language: English
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Traitor’s Chase
$9.99 Add to cartLoyalty is tested in this second book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne and Spy School author Stuart Gibbs–now with a brand-new look!
Having
- Series: Last Musketeer #02
- Author: Gibbs, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0062048422
- Language: English
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Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
$17.00 Add to cartA bilingual edition of writings by Latin America’s finest baroque poet
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, in 1691 in response to her bi- Author: de la Cruz, Juana In?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140447032
- Language: English
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
$19.00 Add to cartWilliam Harvey’s On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it he famously argued, with extensive evidence based on d… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: August 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1498235085
- Language: English
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1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving
$7.95 Add to cartCountering the prevailing, traditional story of the first Thanksgiving, with its black-hatted, silver-buckled Pilgrims; blanket-clad, be-feathered Indians; cranberry sauce; pumpkin pie; and turkey, th… [more below]
- Series: National Geographic
- Author: Grace, Catherine O’Neill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 47
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0792261399
- Language: English
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Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
$9.99 Read more“If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge.” — Galileo Galilei
In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted tru- Author: Sís, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0374470278
- Language: English
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Slavery and the Making of America
$28.99 Add to cartThe history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human s… [more below]
- Author: Horton, James Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0195304519
- Language: English
