General History
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Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
$26.00 Read moreFor many, “Greece” is synonymous with “ancient Greece,” the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But, how did Greece come to be so powerfully attached to the legacy of th… [more below]
- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: June 04 2021
- ISBN10: 022680979X
- Language: English
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Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators
$32.95 Read moreOn Feb. 2, 2019, the skies over Maynardville, Tennessee, filled with the roar of four F/A-18F Super Hornets streaking overhead in close formation. In each aircraft were two young female flyers, execut
- Author: Weintraub, Beverly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055119
- Language: English
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Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage
$22.00 Read moreIn this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and intersectional examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK.
In this fascinating fe- Author: Lennon, Rachael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0711267111
- Language: English
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The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World
$34.95 Add to cartPast works have reinforced misconceptions about Africa, from its oral traditions and languages to its resistance to colonial powers. Other books have treated African achievements as a parade of honora
- Author: Pearce, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887707
- Language: English
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
$34.95 Read moreAn Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine is one of the most important theological works of the nineteenth century written by one of its greatest minds. In this pivotal text, St. John Henry Ne… [more below]
- Author: Newman, John Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1943243247
- Language: English
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The Maya: Lost Civilizations
$43.43 Read moreAn illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries.
This book reveals how the ancient Maya–and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities–- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: O’Neil, Megan E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145503
- Language: English
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Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History
$83.25 Read moreA sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy–with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural hist- Author: Sayer, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 069118545X
- Language: English
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
$20.00 Read moreAs China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.
- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0345803027
- Language: English
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First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics: A Book for Beginners
$14.95 Read moreThe dearth of suitable introductory texts presents a serious obstacle to the study of the Egyptian language, so this practical grammar answers a longstanding need. Its well-known and highly respected … [more below]
- Series: Egypt
- Author: Budge, E. A. Wallis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0486430995
- Language: English
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Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
$29.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year
Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Associat- Author: Bellah, Robert N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: May 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975340
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
$25.00 Add to cartAbout national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0679720197
- Language: English
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The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
$17.95 Read moreAs early as 1654, English and French explorers in the southern Appalachians reported seeing dark-skinned, brown- and blue-eyed, and European-featured people speaking broken Elizabethan English, living… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, N. Brent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0865545162
- Language: English
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Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored
$50.00 Read more“Dictators and the Disappeared is a book that should be found in every library and bookstore of democratic nations, particularly in the U.S., whose foreign policy has been instrumental in supporting … [more below]
- Author: Davidson, Russ
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0890136750
- Language: English
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Ships and Men of the Great Lakes
$14.95 Add to cartShips and men of the Great Lakes spans more than a century of Great Lakes history in a series of true, thoroughly documented dramas, most of them describing the misadventures of vessels and the men wh… [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Dwight
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0912514515
- Language: English
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Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages
$22.95 Read moreIn this book, one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church, which had long denounced the l… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Goff, Jacques Le
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 04 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299159
- Language: English
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The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition
$18.95 Read more“Fascinating and vivid.” New Statesman
“Thoroughly researched.” The Spectator
“Intriguing.” BBC History Magazine
“Vividly told.” BBC History Revealed
“A timely warning against persecution.” Morning Star
“A- Author: Callow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1350387126
- Language: English
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Comics and Conflict: Patriotism and Propaganda from WWII Through Operation Iraqi Freedom
$30.95 Read moreIllustration has been an integral part of human history. Particularly before the advent of media such as photography, film, television, and now the Internet, illustrations in all their variety had bee… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Cord A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682476553
- Language: English
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The Hittites: Lost Civilizations
$29.00 Read moreAn accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor.
Famed for their warriors, the Hittites flourished in the region of modern Turkey from the seventeenth to thirteenth centuries BC.- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Stone, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146844
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
$22.95 Read moreWoven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portr… [more below]
- Author: Blythe, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1590178300
- Language: English
