Chronological Period/18th Century
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Add to cartA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- 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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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
$40.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humani… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1400067669
- Language: English
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Sophia’s War: A Tale of the Revolution
$8.99 Add to cartLives hang in the balance in this gripping Revolutionary War adventure from a beloved Newbery Medalist.In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which i… [more below]
- Author: Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1442414421
- Language: English
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The Blue Flower
$16.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgerald’s crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love f… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0544359453
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$25.00 Add to cartA Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Mr. Jarvis Lorry, an official of Tellson’s Bank in London who accompanies Lucie Manette to Paris. He has information that her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette,
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1912714965
- Language: English
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Perfume: The Story of Murder
$30.00 Add to cartThe year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger’s bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something … [more below]
- Author: Suskind, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0394550846
- Language: English
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Treasure Island
$25.00 Add to cartChiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World’s finest literature.
Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautif
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Stevenson, Robert L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1912714310
- Language: English
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
$18.99 Add to cartHoratio Hornblower, only seventeen years old, gets his sea legs in this “absolutely compelling” (San Francisco Chronicle) first installment of C. S. Forester’s classic naval adventure series.
The ye- Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #01
- Author: Forester, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 30 1984
- ISBN10: 0316289124
- Language: English
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
$9.00 Add to cartThis Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel–by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth–has been beloved around the world for nearly a century.
This splendid and profoundly moving no- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Wilder, Thornton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 059347094X
- Language: English
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Imagination Station Books 3-Pack: The Redcoats Are Coming! / Captured on the High Seas / Surprise at Yorktown
$22.99 Add to cartOver 1 million sold in series
When they step into the Imagination Station, kids experience an unforgettable journey filled with action-packed adventure to inspire their imaginations. With each book, t… [more below]
- Series: Imagination Station Books
- Author: Focus on the Family
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1589978722
- Language: English
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Common Sense
$12.95 Add to cartThomas Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the co… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1557094586
- Language: English
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George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War
$7.95 Add to cartNow in paperback–the award-winning National Geographic book that presents the untold story of the invisible war behind the American Revolution. A riveting tale of intrigue, spies, counterspies and se… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1426300417
- Language: English
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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
$39.95 Add to cartAn Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year
“Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.”
–Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-ex- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244869
- Language: English
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Justin Morgan Had a Horse
$7.99 Add to cartJoel Goss knows that Little Bub is a special colt, even though he’s a runt. And when schoolteacher Justin Morgan asks Joel to break the colt in, Joel is thrilled Soon word about Little Bub has spread… [more below]
- Author: Henry, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1416927859
- Language: English
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the w
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0061767905
- Language: English
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Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence
$20.99 Add to cart“All men are born free and equal.”
Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren’t the only ones who believed that everyone had a ri- Author: Woelfle, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0761365893
- Language: English
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A Place of Greater Safety
$26.00 Add to cartIt is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden–and hugely but erotically ugly. M
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426399
- Language: English
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Follow the River
$9.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “It takes a rare individual not only to see that history can live, but also to make it live for others. James Thom has that gift.”–The Indianapolis News
Mary Ingles was twenty-t- Author: Thom, James Alexander
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0345338545
- Language: English
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money’s Prophets: 1798-1848
$28.00 Add to cartIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success… [more below]
- Series: House of Rothschild #1
- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140240845
- Language: English
