Chronological Period/18th Century
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Social Contract
$9.94 Add to cartRevolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic belief. Rousseau’s concepts of “the general will” as a … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538964
- Language: English
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War of Lies: When George Washington Was the Target and Propaganda Was the Crime
$19.99 Add to cartForgeries 18th Century Style Fake News
“I do not really wish for independence. I hope there are few who do,” George Washington, June 18, 1776.
Did General Washington write these words, which newspapers
- Author: Cook, Jane Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988092629
- Language: English
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
$22.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of … America’s first Renaissance man”… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0385495404
- Language: English
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
$20.00 Add to cartBest known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he inve… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105922
- Language: English
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Lakhota: An Indigenous History Volume 281
$34.95 Add to cartThe Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book t… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian
- Author: Andersson, Rani-Henrik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806190752
- Language: English
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
$27.95 Add to cartThe Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, cr
- Series: Princeton Classics #28
- Author: Palmer, R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175926
- Language: English
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 – 1870
$30.00 Add to cartAfter many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade.
Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, Hug- Author: Thomas, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: February 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0684835657
- Language: English
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Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America
$16.99 Add to cartA resounding answer to and rejection of the New York Times’ infamous “1619 Project,” labeling America as little more than a failed state based on slavery and oppression. A distinguished educator tears… [more below]
- Author: Grabar, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513065
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution
$21.95 Add to cartThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies’ transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. This historical account of the American Revolution tells the story … [more below]
- Author: Werner, Emmy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597972681
- Language: English
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Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartThe myth and the reality of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont–a “surprising and interesting new account…useful, informative reexamination of an often-misunderstood aspec… [more below]
- Author: Wren, Christopher S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1416599568
- Language: English
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A Lenape Among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
$17.95 Add to cart“Marsh makes commendable use of the scant documentary evidence to piece together Hannah Freeman’s life. Her painstaking efforts to give Hannah a voice are impressive.” ―Thomas Britten, The Histo
- Author: Marsh, Dawn G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 080327520X
- Language: English
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
$28.99 Add to cartThe first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume–a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize–offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Middlekauff, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: March 09 2007
- ISBN10: 019531588X
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
$18.99 Add to cart“A balanced, readable portrait. A refreshing perspective.” —New York Times Book Review
With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, bestselling author Christopher Hitchens gives us an artful portra
- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0060837063
- Language: English
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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
$27.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United States
In the vaunted annals of America- Author: Peterson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209170
- Language: English
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White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
$19.95 Read moreFintan O’Toole, columnist and drama critic for the Irish Times, is the author of many other books, including A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His work frequently appears in Ame… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: O’Toole, Fintan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1438427581
- Language: English
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Talleyrand
$19.00 Add to cartUnique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high … [more below]
- Series: Grove Great Lives
- Author: Cooper, Duff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0802137679
- Language: English
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
$26.99 Add to cartWith his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.
In eighteenth-century France, c
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351807
- Language: English
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The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
$35.00 Add to cartFrontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier
- Author: Weidensaul, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0151015155
- Language: English
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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Rasmussen, Dennis C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241414
- Language: English
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Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire
$29.95 Add to cartTo coincide with the release of Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, in November 2023.
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of this extraordinary man
- Author: Papot, Emmanuelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0233005730
- Language: English
