Chronological Period/18th Century
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Religious Affections
$19.00 Read moreJonathan Edwards is best known as the theologian of revival. In this, his major study on the theme, he analyses the nature of a genuine work of the Holy Spirit.
- Author: Edwards, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: October 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0851514855
- Language: English
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused
- Author: Connolly, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0465093957
- Language: English
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
$23.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. – “… [more below]
- Author: Wulf, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0307390683
- Language: English
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Critique of Judgement
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552460
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
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Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat
$23.99 Read more‘An inspired and original tale … Jeoffry is the greatest cat in the English language’ Hilary Mantel‘Simply unforgettable … one of the most beautiful and haunting books of recent times’ Alexander M… [more below]
- Author: Soden, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0750999314
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent…and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong
$32.00 Read moreIn the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, this insightful history revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary- Author: Thompson, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1455565156
- Language: English
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Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
$5.99 Add to cartA funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the magic square. A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of… [more below]
- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Murphy, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0375806210
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
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Meet George Washington
$7.99 Add to cartGeorge Washington grew up in the English colony of Virginia. He was tall and strong, fair in judgment, and respected by his friends as a
good leader. As he grew older, George saw how England took advan… [more below]- Series: Landmark Books
- Author: Heilbroner, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0375803971
- Language: English
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Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
$21.00 Read moreWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations
Winner of the- Author: Brown, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674260295
- Language: English
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Forgotten Founders: Black Patriots, Women Soldiers, and Other Thinkers and Heroes Who Shaped Early America
$19.99 Read more“[T]he cause is just, and readers will come away with a firmer understanding that, as the introduction has it, the story of this country’s founding is ‘everyone’s story.'”–Booklist
A Junior Library G
- Author: Lowe, Mifflin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1638190925
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850
$35.00 Read moreThe first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway
Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails l- Author: Gwyn, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267894
- Language: English
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We the Elites: Why the Us Constitution Serves the Few
$22.95 Read moreA new, radical reading of the US constitution.
An adroit collection of essays exposing the constitution for what it really is – a rulebook to protect capitalism for the elites.Written by 55 of the r
- Author: Ovetz, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0745344720
- Language: English
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The Song at the Scaffold
$18.95 Read moreJuly 17, 1794: French Revolutionaries are out to crush the Catholic Church in their nation, and the latest targets of their brutality are the Carmelites of the convent of Compi?ne. Sentenced to death … [more below]
- Author: Von Le Fort, Gertrud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1618904027
- Language: English
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Along a Breton Shore
$26.99 Read moreA soldier must choose between his heart’s desire or his duty to country in this gripping novel of friendship and survival.
Maxence ﾉtienne believes fiercely in the Revolution and longs for his name- Author: Hawks, Arlem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1639931074
- Language: English
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Jamie Macgillivray: The Renegade’s Journey
$32.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
‘It gets under the skin of this extraordinary time in a way that few historical novels do. Sayles writes superbly about the confusion of warfare and deals- Author: Sayles, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1612199887
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Read moreAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
Winner … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
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Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy
$9.99 Read moreLife as a ship’s boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, J… [more below]
- Series: Bloody Jack Adventures #1
- Author: Meyer, L. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: June 10 2010
- ISBN10: 015205085X
- Language: English
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Style
$28.95 Read more“An original and absorbing guide to English style. Get it if you can.”–Wall Street Journal
Say it with style–on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hund- Series: Farnsworth’s Classical English #3
- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1567926657
- Language: English
