Chronological Period/18th Century
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Piranesi. the Complete Etchings
$100.00 Add to cartThe most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued the city’s archaeological rui
- Author: Ficacci, Luigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 788
- Publish Date: June 24 2022
- ISBN10: 3836587610
- Language: English
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$27.95 Add to cartA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.- Author: Connelly, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691208956
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
$20.00 Add to cartThis illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftly and for a time became a highly controversial subjec… [more below]
- Author: Walters, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141905
- Language: English
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His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
$35.00 Read moreAs he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.
In this un
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062440039
- Language: English
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George Washington and the Irish: Incredible Stories of the Irish Spies, Soldiers, and Workers Who Helped Free America
$26.99 Read moreDiscover the untold story of the vital role the Irish played in the American Revolution.
George Washington changed the world and saved democracy by defeating the British during the American War of Ind- Author: O’Dowd, Niall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1510769390
- Language: English
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John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy.
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0743258045
- Language: English
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Practical Philosophy
$55.00 Add to cartThis is the first English translation of all of Kant’s writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 706
- Publish Date: June 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0521654084
- Language: English
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A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
$7.95 Add to cartWith a new afterword by William Chad Stanley
Here a private in the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War narrates his adventures in the army of a newborn country.- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Plumb Martin, Joseph
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531582
- Language: English
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Ruby Red
$12.99 Add to cartGwyneth Shepherd’s sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spi
- Series: Ruby Red Trilogy #1
- Author: Gier, Kerstin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0312551517
- Language: English
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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
$36.40 Add to cart“The best one-volume history of the United States ever written” (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidencies
In America, Empire of Liberty, prizewinning historian David Reyn… [more below]- Author: Reynolds, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 154167569X
- Language: English
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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier
$29.99 Read moreThe Instant New York Times Besteller
National Bestseller “[The] authors’ finest work to date.” —Wall Street Journal
The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 20, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250247136
- Language: English
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Tupaia: Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator
$19.95 Add to cartTupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship’s translator. Lauded by Europeans as an “extraordinary genius,” Tupaia was a star navigator
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0995130906
- Language: English
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The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
$18.00 Add to cart“A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book
In his first work of narrative nonf
- Author: Pearl, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0062937804
- Language: English
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
$19.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: May 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1432873806
- 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
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Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes
$27.99 Add to cartThe story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in t… [more below]
- Author: Hibbert, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393322939
- Language: English
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America’s fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire
In this compelling biography, award- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 030681918X
- Language: English
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
$25.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story–from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of t… [more below]
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 019005669X
- Language: English
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Whaling Captains of Color: America’s First Meritocracy
$21.95 Add to cartThe history of whaling as an industry on this continent has been well-told in books, including some that have been bestsellers, but what hasn’t been told is the story of whaling’s leaders of color in … [more below]
- Author: Finley, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682478327
- Language: English
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Blackbeard’s Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge
$31.95 Add to cartIn 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne’s Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily … [more below]
- Author: Wilde-Ramsing, Mark U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2018
- ISBN10: 146964052X
- Language: English
