General History
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
$46.67 Add to cartFrom Snow White to Cinderella, Rapunzel to Rumpelstiltskin, the Brothers Grimm bequeathed a canon of stories which have become literary and childhood classics. The most widely read story collection af
- Author: Daniel, Noel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2011
- ISBN10: 3836526727
- Language: English
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
$34.99 Read moreConnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this… [more below]
- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 019931599X
- Language: English
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Egyptian Mythology: A Traveler’s Guide from Aswan to Alexandria
$24.95 Add to cartJoin Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on an entertaining tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris, and their enemie
- Author: Shaw, Garry J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252289
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartThe award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)–the perfect companion to An Indigenous Peop… [more below]
- Series: ReVisioning American History #5
- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0807033553
- Language: English
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE – A Pulitzer Prize finalist that’s as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came
- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0375713964
- Language: English
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Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
$18.99 Add to cartDiscover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history — until now.
Regency England … [more below]- Author: Koch, Bea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1538701014
- Language: English
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Father and Son
$14.95 Add to cartEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.” Father and Son remains one of English literature… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gosse, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539111
- Language: English
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
$19.99 Read more“Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done…great fun to read.” — New York Times Book Review
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253170
- Language: English
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
$18.95 Read moreThe epic history of the “iron men in wooden boats” who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville proclaimed,… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331571
- Language: English
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
$18.95 Add to cartIn this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918–which inspired events that forever changed the European continent–here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and ris… [more below]
- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362975
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$56.00 Add to cartJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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Fossil Legends of the First Americans
$19.95 Add to cartThe burnt-red badlands of Montana’s Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and th
- Author: Mayor, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245614
- Language: English
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The Histories
$10.95 Add to cart“The father of history,” as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535663
- Language: English
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The History of Speed: The Quest to Go Faster, from the Dawn of the Motor Car to the Speed of Sound
$29.95 Read moreEver since we built machines that could transport us, there has been a desire to find ways to make them go faster. For some, going faster isn’t enough — they want to be the fastest. This book celebr
- Author: Roach, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0228103541
- Language: English
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Robinson Crusoe
$12.99 Read more– Marketing activity is focused on visibility in-store and online
– Pre-publication mailings to special interest media, national and regional magazines,
– Major focus on gift, travel, tourist sector
– M… [more below]- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1839647663
- Language: English
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The Emperors of Byzantium
$39.95 Read moreThe Byzantine empire was one of the most successful states of the Middle Ages, ruling over a huge terrain straddling Europe and western Asia for eleven hundred years from the fourth to fifteenth centu
- Author: Lygo, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0500023298
- Language: English
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The Castle: A History
$26.00 Read moreA vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day
The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military- Author: Goodall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0300251904
- Language: English
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
$28.00 Read more“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectation… [more below]
- Author: Knight, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1984879596
- Language: English
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A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of Western Sudan with an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northen Nigeria
$34.95 Read moreWhen Lady Lugard sat down to write A Tropical Dependency, it was not her intention to inspire generations of Africans to regain the independence of their countries. Lugard writes of slavery as though … [more below]
- Author: Lugard, Flora Shaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 093312192X
- Language: English
