General History
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African People in World History
$11.95 Read moreThis book surveys the impact that African people have made on world history. Dr. Clarke guides the reader along a narrative journey that spans from antiquity through present times.
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0933121776
- 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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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 Read moreThe 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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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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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
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Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History
$19.95 Read more“The brief sections are consistently interesting, and plenty of supplemental illustrations and photos make this a handsome volume… best-suited to curious kids and casual mineralogists.” –Publisher
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Chaline, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1770855874
- Language: English
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The American Puritans
$18.00 Add to cartIn The American Puritans , Dustin Benge and Nate Pickowicz tell the story of the first hundred years of Reformed Protestantism in New England through the lives of nine key figures: William Bradford,
- Author: Benge, Dustin W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1601787731
- Language: English
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The Utter Disaster on the Oregon Trail: The Utter and Van Ornum Massacres of 1860
$16.95 Read moreThe greatest disaster to befall a emigrant party on the Oregon Trail occurred in September 1860 in what is now southwestern Idaho. A party composed of eight wagons and 44 men, women and children was a… [more below]
- Series: Snake Country
- Author: Shannon, Donald H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0963582828
- Language: English
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Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
$26.95 Read more2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Special Jury Mention
“A book every thoughtful adventurer and seeker of dreams should read.” — Outside- Author is a renowned writer in international climbing com
- Author: Ives, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1680515411
- Language: English
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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony
$49.93 Read moreIn 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. There he was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg, the most famous So… [more below]
- Author: Sutzkever, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0228008999
- Language: English
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Letters to Camondo
$22.00 Read moreA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Mo?e de Camondo.
63 rue de Monceau, Paris
Dear friend,
As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1250851068
- Language: English
