General History
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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
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
$19.00 Read morePart autobiography, part sociological study, part travel memoir–Christ Stopped at Eboli is a reissue of Carlo Levi’s classic book on life in a small, desolate Italian town during the 1930s.
It was to- Author: Levi, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250623081
- Language: English
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Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time
$66.58 Read moreA major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule
Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-t- Author: Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691179069
- Language: English
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The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
$28.00 Read moreWritten in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ru… [more below]
- Author: Cooney, Kara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1426221967
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
$40.00 Read moreA dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world.
From the rise of Sa- Author: Lieven, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0735222193
- Language: English
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A New Century of Heroes
$39.95 Read moreThere are heroes who walk among us: the clam digger who rescues a man from a burning retirement home; the dancer who prevents a robber from shooting two policemen at a nightclub; the former Marine, bl
- Author: Zahren, Eric P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493070967
- Language: English
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The Civil War
$11.95 Add to cartThe Civil War is Caesar’s masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey’s death and the start of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540624
- Language: English
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The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between
$17.95 Read morePublished in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany.
In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journal- Author: Dobbs, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0525434836
- Language: English
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
$18.95 Read moreFrom Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan f
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342360
- Language: English
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Jewels: A Secret History
$20.00 Read moreThroughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her ow… [more below]
- Author: Finlay, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 345466950
- Language: English
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The Revolution Betrayed
$19.95 Read moreOne of Marxism’s most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin’s death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and pro… [more below]
- Author: Trotsky, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: February 20 2004
- ISBN10: 0486433986
- Language: English
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The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent
$19.95 Read moreNew evidence has come to light proving how far the FBI monitored its citizens throughout the Cold War and beyond.
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged.
- Author: Price, David Hotchkiss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0745346014
- Language: English
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Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle’a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
$32.99 Read moreAttuned to a world of natural signs–the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells–Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing
- Author: Low, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0824877357
- Language: English
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Someone Else’s Empire: British Illusions and American Hegemony
$34.95 Read moreSomeone’s Else’s Empire coolly reassesses Britain’s relationship with the United States. Elite descriptions of Britain’s position in the world (‘punching above our weight’) are untenable, Tom Stevenso… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 180429148X
- Language: English
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The Ultimate 70s Collection: Iconic Musicians and Albums, Movies That Defined a Generation, Legendary Toys and Videogames
$19.99 Read moreHow do you remember the seventies? Whether it’s as the “Me Decade,” the heatwave of 1976, or the Winter of Discontent, you’ll find something in these pages to stir up nostalgia for the pop culture tha… [more below]
- Author: Romero, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103789
- Language: English
