General History
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If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
$19.99 Read moreFrom the Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and BBC Television series including Lucy Worsley: Mozart’s London Odyssey and Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, available on Netflix.
“Worsley is a tho- Author: Worsley, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1620402351
- Language: English
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
$17.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018
A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor hou- Author: Kaufmann, Miranda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 178607396X
- Language: English
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Metamorphosis and Identity
$24.95 Read moreIn Metamorphosis and Identity, award-winning historian Caroline Walker Bynum explores the Western obsession with the nature of change and personal identity. Focusing on the twelfth and thirteenth cent
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2005
- ISBN10: 1890951234
- Language: English
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The Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism
$19.95 Read moreA new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes–the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19
In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a c- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765658
- Language: English
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The Great Empires of the Ancient World
$16.95 Read moreIn this highly appealing collection, a distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars survey the great empires from 1600 BCE to 500 CE. In ten comprehensive chapters, from the ancient Mediter
- Author: Harrison, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0500295883
- Language: English
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Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel
$18.99 Read more“Ethan Michaeli has a gimlet eye for the people, texture, and contradictions of modern Israel. I’m in awe of his powers of observation and his ability as a modern-day Tocqueville to take us inside one
- Author: Michaeli, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0062688863
- Language: English
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Illustrated History of Great Composers: A Guide to the Lives, Key Works and Influences of Over 100 Renowned Composers
$25.00 Read moreThis authoritative volume provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the most influential composers of classical music. Starting from medieval times, the book gives detailed biographies covering the
- Author: Thompson, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0754835561
- Language: English
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Lost Paititi and the Non-Human Remains of Nazca
$22.00 Read moreFrench explorer and anthropologist Thierry Jamin relates finding from his years in Peru in search of the lost Inca city of Paititi plus his most recent escapades with non-human skeletons at Nazca on t… [more below]
- Author: Jamin, Thierry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1948803526
- Language: English
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Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe last century has been a tumultuous one for the culture and politics of Britain. Kenneth Morgan’s Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and conflict that have exi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2005
- ISBN10: 019285397X
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$25.00 Add to cartThe international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich’s sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
“All stories begin with ‘Once upon a time.’ And that’s just what this story is all about: wha- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0300108834
- Language: English
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the national bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization–a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.
“Intoxicating…. Cahill’s c- Series: Hinges of History #05
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0385495560
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure
$29.95 Read moreFrom an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.
Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but fe- Author: Aly, Götz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0674276574
- Language: English
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Ancient Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome
$24.95 Read moreIn the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. In a time before scientists studied weather patterns and figured ou
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0500052077
- Language: English
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México En MÃ
$24.95 Read moreViajero incansable, Armando Fuentes Aguirre, Catón, recorre todos los caminos de México. No hay estado del paÃs al que no lo hayan llevado sus andanzas. Quien ame esta patria y quiera sentir su gen… [more below]
- Author: Fuentes Aguirre Catón, Armando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 6070799879
- Language: Spanish
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Day of the Assassins
$19.99 Read moreA forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
- Author: Burleigh, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 152903017X
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of Egypt
$14.95 Read more- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Adès, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717582
- Language: English
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When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History’s Unknown Chapters
$19.00 Read moreObscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton
The first installment in Giles Milton’s outrageously entertaining series, History’s Unknown- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250078776
- Language: English
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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
$29.95 Read moreJust like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experi
- Author: Hartnell, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1324002166
- Language: English
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Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
$19.99 Read moreWINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
A Guardian Book of the- Author: Koram, Kojo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1529338646
- Language: English
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The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
$29.99 Add to cartIn the early 1850s, white American abolitionist Benjamin Drew was commissioned to travel to Canada West (now Ontario) to interview escaped slaves from the United States. At the time the population of
- Series: Voyageur Classics #11
- Author: Drew, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1550028014
- Language: English
