General History
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Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City
$20.00 Add to cartAn endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesqu- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0307743756
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
$17.95 Read moreThe most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, accla
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356264
- Language: English
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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969
$22.00 Read moreThe first of its kind, From Columbus to Castro is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. Quite simply it’s about millions of people scattere… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394715020
- Language: English
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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny
$18.00 Read moreVictor David Hanson, author of the highly regarded classic The Western Way of War, presents an audacious and controversial theory of what contributes to the success of military campaigns.
Examining in- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720599
- Language: English
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution–a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigra… [more below]
- Author: Zia, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0345522338
- Language: English
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The Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
$22.00 Read moreA sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses–and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen m- Author: Eisen, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0451495799
- Language: English
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We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin
$19.95 Read more“Miller’s terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake.”
–Michael- Author: Miller, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292146
- Language: English
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
$8.00 Read moreIn an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Yetman, Norman R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0486420701
- Language: English
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China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
$35.00 Read moreChina’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time–from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 unti
- Author: Van de Ven, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0674983505
- Language: English
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The Kindertransport: What Really Happened
$22.95 Read moreIn 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but the
- Author: Hammel, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1509553770
- Language: English
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Pacific Voyages: The Story of Sail in the Great Ocean
$49.95 Read more“Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller’s] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms
- Author: Miller, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1771623470
- Language: English
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A History of the Barricade
$17.95 Read more- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1784781282
- Language: English
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The Decline of the West
$17.95 Add to cartSince its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a… [more below]
- Author: Spengler, Oswald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400097002
- Language: English
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A History of Fatigue: From the Middle Ages to the Present
$35.00 Read more“Stress,” “burn out,” “mental overload” the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves in
- Author: Vigarello, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1509549250
- Language: English
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Indian Nations of North America
$45.00 Read moreWalk with the indigenous people who settled North America –and with their descendants, whose more than 500 tribes range from the Arctic Circle across the Great Plains and to the Eastern Seaboard. Lak… [more below]
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 142620664X
- Language: English
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The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
$0.00 Read moreEvery negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is the history of what was attempted, why those failure… [more below]
- Author: Spencer, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 164293254X
- Language: English
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The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
$24.95 Read more- Author: Crawford, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1629145122
- Language: English
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Ranching Women of Colorado: 17 Legendary Ladies
$17.95 Read moreThe American West has always been known for strong women, and the state of Colorado is no exception. From the earliest days of settlement, Colorado women had a love for the land and built their homest… [more below]
- Author: Wommack, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: February 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0870046292
- Language: English
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
$35.00 Read moreA preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.
Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth cent… [more below]- Author: Fox, Robin Lane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0465093442
- Language: English
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Empire of Horses: The First Nomadic Civilization and the Making of China
$17.95 Read moreAn authoritative and rich history of the remarkable Xiongnu culture–a lost empire which preceded the Mongols and even China itself.
The author of landmark histories such as Genghis Khan, Attila, and- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1643136917
- Language: English
