General History
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Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
$28.99 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and the Economist
In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of t- Author: Bullough, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 125028192X
- 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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If a Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Black Bart, King of the Caribbean Pirates
$16.99 Read moreIn a page-turning tale brimming with adventure, author Richard Sanders tells of the remarkable exploits of Bartholomew Roberts (better known as Black Bart), the greatest of the Caribbean pirates. He d… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1510772634
- Language: English
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Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity
$18.95 Read moreThe personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990), Austria’s long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his a
- Author: Aschheim, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1608012425
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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Medieval Europe
$20.00 Add to cartA spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and t- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228821
- Language: English
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
$19.95 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“The achievement of a lifetime.”
Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award
Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize
–Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin “Naim- Author: Naimark, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292154
- Language: English
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A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Ireland
$32.95 Add to cartAdapted from the BBC series, this anthology highlights important episodes of Irish history.
A sweeping, accessible history of Ireland adapted from Dr Jonathan Bardon’s BBC series.
This authoritative and… [more below]
- Author: Bardon, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0717190005
- Language: English
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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas
$25.00 Read more“The rise and fall of Venice’s empire is an irresistible story and Roger] Crowley, with his rousing descriptive gifts and scholarly attention to detail, is its perfect chronicler.”–The Financial Tim… [more below]
- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 21 2013
- ISBN10: 0812980220
- Language: English
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Conversations with a Dead Man: Indigenous Rights and the Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott
$23.95 Read moreThe second edition of Mark Abley’s acclaimed creative biography, revised and expanded with a new introduction by the author.
When he died in 1947, Duncan Campbell Scott was revered as one of his countr
- Author: Abley, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1738993329
- Language: English
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Goa, 1961: The Complete Story of Nationalism and Integration
$26.99 Read moreThe subject of the liberation of Goa in 1961 and its integration into the Indian Union in 1962 is sparsely understood at best and misunderstood at worst. What were the events that led to the thirty-si… [more below]
- Author: Faleiro, Valmiki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0670097926
- Language: English
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Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History
$34.95 Read moreA new collection of essays from one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century
‘ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION’, Stuart Hall, author of The Hard- Author: Samuel, Raphael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 180429280X
- Language: English
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The Mystified Letter: How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading
$34.00 Read moreReading has become a problem–not just of attention, comprehension, or growing rates of illiteracy, but of politics, society, and religion. The questions of how and what to read are not just matters o
- Author: Tichelkamp, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1506486738
- Language: English
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Contemporary China: 1949 to the Present
$35.00 Read moreWith a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This boo
- Author: Guiheux, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1509552499
- Language: English
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The Notorious Edward Low: Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy’s Golden Age
$35.00 Read moreFollowing the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)–generally known in the Americas as Queen Anne’s War–a dramatic, decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim. Often glamorized as … [more below]
- Author: Travers, Len
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1594163987
- Language: English
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Arc of Feeling: The History of the Swing
$38.00 Read moreFrom beloved elements of children’s playgrounds to leather tools of bondage, a sweeping study of the cultural significance of swings.
In Arc of Feeling Javier Moscoso investigates the pleasure of osc- Author: Moscoso, Javier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146933
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Flotilla: Scotland’s Adventure on the Rivers of Burma
$24.95 Read moreThe ‘Fabulous Flotilla’, called the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in colonial Burma, was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. It was an entirely Scottish enterprise with nearly all it
- Author: Strachan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1849955328
- Language: English
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Breve Historia del Mundo. Edición Ilustrada
$26.95 Read moreNueva edición ilustrada de esta obra clásica que lleva décadas divulgando la historia del mundo a lectores de todas las edades.
Esta Breve historia del mundo no es un manual al uso: es la historia d
- Author: Gombrich, Ernst H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 6075692282
- Language: Spanish
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The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth
$24.99 Read moreCompelling evidence that the events of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
– Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to an- Author: Vinci, Felice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1594770522
- Language: English
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
$19.99 Read moreAt the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval pa
- Author: Dejean, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 162040768X
- Language: English
