General History
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Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe’s Ancient Gods
$34.95 Add to cartT.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about
- Author: Kokoszka, T. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1803412852
- Language: English
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The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures
$26.99 Add to cartThis narrative history of Latin America surveys five centuries in less than five hundred pages. The first third of the book moves from the Americas before Columbus to the wars for independence in the
- Series: Palgrave Essential Histories
- Author: Eakin, Marshall C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 1403980810
- Language: English
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The Mexican Revolution
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in Spanish in 1971, The Mexican Revolution has been praised by Mexico’s Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz as a “notable contribution” to history and is widely recognized as a semi
- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Gilly, Adolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581235
- Language: English
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Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
$18.99 Read moreBrimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indi… [more below]
- Author: McKinley, Catherine E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1608195880
- Language: English
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How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
$18.00 Read moreFinally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West–in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only We… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 161017139X
- Language: English
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Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo
$19.99 Add to cartThe fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd’s enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory.
In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from Willi- Series: History of England, 4 #4
- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1250765978
- Language: English
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The Paris Commune: A Brief History
$22.95 Read moreThe Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and… [more below]
- Series: Reinventions of the Paris Commune
- Author: Eichner, Carolyn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827687
- Language: English
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The Blue Nile
$17.99 Add to cartIn the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterra
- Author: Moorehead, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956402
- Language: English
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How Capitalism Ends: History, Ideology and Progress
$21.95 Read moreWhile the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the ‘logic’ of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We’ve passed the point where ou
- Author: Paxton, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1803410000
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
$21.00 Add to cartA thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire.
The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473651
- Language: English
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Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
$34.99 Read moreThe definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong.
‘What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.
What do people talk most about? A Coronation.
What is- Author: Strong, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0008550069
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Add to cartThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History
$18.99 Read moreHow do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past?
Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological proble
- Author: Trueman, Carl R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1581349238
- Language: English
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Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
$20.00 Read moreThe subject of John Singer Sargent’s most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the “it girl” of her day. A relative unk… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 03 2004
- ISBN10: 158542336X
- Language: English
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The New Huey P. Newton Reader
$19.95 Read moreThe first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, now in a new edition with a new introduction by former Black Panth… [more below]
- Author: Newton, Huey P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1609809009
- Language: English
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Missing in the Minarets: The Search for Walter A. Starr, Jr.
$18.99 Add to cartThis riveting narrative details the mysterious disappearance of Peter Starr, a San Francisco attorney from a prominent family, who set off to climb alone in the rugged Minaret region of the Sierra Nev… [more below]
- Author: Alsup, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1930238185
- Language: English
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A History of the Classical World: The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome
$24.99 Read moreThis richly illustrated hardback chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, accompanied by full-color images of artifacts, artwork, maps and more.
From palace-based societie- Series: Arcturus Science & History Collection #16
- Author: Wyse, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1839406720
- Language: English
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Living Like a Tudor: Woodsmoke and Sage: A Sensory Journey Through Tudor England
$27.95 Read moreTake a 500-year journey back in time and experience the Tudor Era through the five senses.
Much has been written about the lives of the Tudors, but it is sometimes difficult to really grasp how they- Author: Licence, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643138154
- Language: English
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
$22.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035986
- Language: English
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Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland
$21.00 Add to cartUkraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia’s … [more below]
- Author: Schlögel, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146771
- Language: English
