Chronological Period/18th Century
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Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
$17.99 Add to cartTwo hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, d
- Author: Burleigh, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 09, 2008
- ISBN10: 0060597682
- Language: English
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Candide and Other Stories
$7.95 Add to cartCandide is the most famous of Voltaire’s “philosophical tales,” in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535612
- Language: English
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Jane Austen Embroidery: Regency Patterns Reimagined for Modern Stitchers
$24.95 Add to cartJane Austen was as skillful with a needle as she was with a pen, and this unique book showcases rare and beautiful embroidery patterns from her era, repurposed into 15 modern sewing projects. Derived … [more below]
- Series: Dover Crafts: Embroidery & Needlepoint
- Author: Batchelor, Jennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0486842878
- Language: English
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
$26.00 Add to cartThis is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, ba
- Author: Powell, Lawrence N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0674725905
- Language: English
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
$19.99 Add to cartLegendary journalist Cokie Roberts’ New York Times bestseller, Founding Mothers, is an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf
- Author: Roberts, Cokie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 15 2005
- ISBN10: 006009026X
- Language: English
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Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
$6.99 Read moreBorn in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old Soon after, he was performing for kings and emperors. Although he died at… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: McDonough, Yona Zeldis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0448431041
- Language: English
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Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle
$21.99 Add to cartQuicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason w
- Series: Baroque Cycle #1
- Author: Stephenson, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0060593083
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830
$19.95 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 163936384X
- Language: English
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Sacagawea
$10.99 Read moreTaking a rare look beyond the myths and legends surrounding Sacagawea’s life, this extraordinary illustrated history recounts the known facts about a remarkable woman and her contribution to one of Am
- Author: Erdrich, Liselotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1728492998
- Language: English
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
$16.99 Add to cartJohann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for mode… [more below]
- Author: Gaines, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0007156618
- Language: English
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
$21.99 Add to cartIt is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contra
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: May 06 2016
- ISBN10: 006008314X
- Language: English
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
$19.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” – spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s – when l… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496220
- Language: English
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
$20.00 Add to cartPassion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France.
In this first of three books inspired- Author: Gulland, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856069
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$12.99 Add to cartNow introduced by eminent civil libertarian, constitutional scholar, and New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz, The Federalist Papers are a must-have for all scholars of history and govern… [more below]
- Author: Dershowitz, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1631585274
- Language: English
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
$11.99 Add to cartIn one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned geni
- Author: Gaines, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0007153937
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
$25.00 Add to cart“[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the “Enlighteners.”… Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the
- Author: Robertson, Ritchie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062410660
- Language: English
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
$8.99 Add to cartA Newbery Medal Winner
When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, A- Series: Newbery Library, Puffin
- Author: Yates, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01, 1989
- ISBN10: 0140341587
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$9.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by P… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783261
- Language: English
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The Redcoats Are Coming!
$9.99 Add to cartOver 1 million sold in series
The first of a three-book story arc about the American Revolution, The Redcoats Are Coming follows Patrick and Beth as they assist the revolutionaries by waking up the sl… [more below]
- Series: Imagination Station Books #13
- Author: Hering, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1589977742
- Language: English
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American Patriot’s Bible-NKJV: The Word of God and the Shaping of America
$69.99 Add to cartThe Bible alongside key events in American history.
This beautiful Bible spotlights the people and events that demonstrate the godly qualities that have made America great. The American Patriot’s Bible
- Author: Lee, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1568
- Publish Date: May 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1418541532
- Language: English
