Chronological Period/18th Century
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Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1785, an African American woman, Elizabeth, was sold to her fifth enslaver. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of her first enslaver, would locate her and safeguard her child–nor that Rob
- Author: Bellerjeau, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1493076493
- Language: English
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
$35.00 Add to cartThis book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestiz… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies #105
- Author: Vinson III, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1107670810
- Language: English
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Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
$24.95 Add to cartPresenting an advanced and authoritative perspective, this definitive study chronicles the rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious Enlightenment-era guild surrounded by myth. Descri… [more below]
- Author: Melanson, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 531
- Publish Date: January 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0977795381
- Language: English
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A Perfect Love: Understanding John Wesley’s A Plain Account of Christian Perfection: Expanded Edition
$16.00 Add to cart- Author: Manskar, Steven W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 088177426X
- Language: English
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993
In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0805030077
- Language: English
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
$32.50 Add to cartThe philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of sign… [more below]
- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0618872027
- Language: English
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Hegel: A Biography
$60.00 Add to cartOne of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major… [more below]
- Author: Pinkard, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 812
- Publish Date: June 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0521003873
- Language: English
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America’s Revolution at Sea
$24.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE – “A meticulous, adrenaline-filled account of the earliest days of the Continental Navy.”–New York Times bestselling author Laurence Berg… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0451416112
- Language: English
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
$24.00 Add to cartLouis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within
- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312320299
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the adve… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198706782
- Language: English
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
$22.99 Read moreLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0190625368
- Language: English
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Morning of Fire: America’s Epic First Journey Into the Pacific
$24.99 Add to cartMorning of Fire by Scott Ridley is the thrilling story of 18th century American explorer and expeditioner John Kedrick as he journeyed for land and trade in the Pacific. Set against the backdrop of on
- Author: Ridley, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0061700193
- Language: English
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State of Revolution: My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey Through Revolutionary War New Jersey
$14.99 Add to cartPart Memoir. Part History. Part Travelogue.
Part Love Letter to the State of New Jersey.
On a late summer day in 2009, Al Frazza began a journey of exploration. His goal – to visit, research, and photo
- Author: Frazza, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 24 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985560411
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring: A History and Tour Guide
$40.99 Add to cartIn 1778, two years after the British forced the Continental Army out of New York City, George Washington and his subordinates organized a secret spy network to gather intelligence in Manhattan and Lon… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Bleyer, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1540247368
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830
$29.95 Read moreA vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellin… [more below]
- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643138812
- Language: English
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The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights
$4.99 Add to cartThe United States Constitution and Bill of Rights (1787-1789) is a foundational document of American democracy. Written by delegates attending the Constitutional Convention, a gathering intended to re
- Series: Mint Editions (Historical Documents and Treaties)
- Author: Editions, Mint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 22
- Publish Date: April 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513279629
- Language: English
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Captain William Hilton and the Founding of Hilton Head Island
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Dwayne W. Pickett details the life of William Hilton, his exploration of the Carolina coast and the founding of an iconic island.
Behind the pristine beaches and world renown of Hilton Head Isla
- Author: Pickett, Dwayne W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1467141917
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Beach: A Global History
$24.95 Add to cartA human and global take on a beloved vacation spot.
The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans- Author: Ritchie, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0520395573
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
$26.00 Add to cartNew Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1107591163
- Language: English
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
$23.99 Add to cartThe Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France,
- Author: Zuckerman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0865475784
- Language: English
