General History
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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
$23.00 Add to cartPublished 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 Add to cartThroughout 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
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Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe’s Ancient Gods
$34.95 Read moreT.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 Read moreThis 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 Read moreThe 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
