General History
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States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America’s Punishment System
$23.00 Read moreA crucial book for our current moment, uncovering the history of mass incarceration in the United States and engaging with the major challenges of contemporary prison and police abolition activism.
I- Series: Field Notes
- Author: Shanahan, Jarrod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146666
- Language: English
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
$21.00 Add to cartIn the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and … [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0307279480
- Language: English
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Fuego Persa
$24.95 Read more- Author: Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 8417743332
- Language: Spanish
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Farthest North: The Greatest Arctic Adventure Story
$21.95 Read moreIn 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures and drift to the North Pole as a scient… [more below]
- Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1783342455
- Language: English
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The Curious History of Weights & Measures
$25.00 Read moreA fascinating miscellany of the stories behind our weights and measures.
How long is an ell? How big is the largest champagne bottle? How do you measure the heat of a chili pepper? Why is the depth o- Author: Cock-Starkey, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1851245790
- Language: English
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The Story of Civilization Teacher’s Manual: Volume I – The Ancient World
$19.95 Read moreThe Activity Book and companion Teacher’s Manual provide a complete review of everything read in The Story of Civilization: The Ancient World, along with creative activities to accompany each chapter,… [more below]
- Author: Tan Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1505105706
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of England
$14.95 Read moreThis book gives a comprehensive and enjoyable survey of England’s past from prehistoric times right through to the present. All the major periods of English history are dealt with, including the Roman… [more below]
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Daniell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1566566045
- Language: English
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How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
$18.99 Read moreOn the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to t
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492535
- Language: English
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Night: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cartA memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power
When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a me
- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1432876929
- Language: English
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Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
$32.00 Read moreOn the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic 70th anniversary on the throne, Tracy Borman’s sweeping narrative of the British monarchy illuminates one of history’s most iconic and enduring legacies
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- Author: Borman, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159109
- Language: English
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
$19.00 Read more“Thrilling . . . a bracing summary of what we have learned [from] ‘archaeogenetics’–the study of ancient DNA . . . Krause and Trappe capture the excitement of this young field.”–Kyle Harper, The Wal… [more below]
- Author: Krause, Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593229436
- Language: English
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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
$24.95 Read more“Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate.”
Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world
-Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism- Author: Ishchenko, Volodymyr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 180429554X
- Language: English
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Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance
$64.50 Read moreA critical reassessment of world-shaping Portuguese voyages of discovery that places these quests in historical context.
The lasting impact of historic Portuguese voyages of discovery is unquestionab- Author: Newitt, Malyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147026
- Language: English
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World
$45.00 Read moreAn extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world’s leading experts.
Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Coo- Author: de Hamel, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1594206112
- Language: English
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Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
$19.95 Read moreTo be stewards of the earth, not owners: this was the way of the Lenape. Considering themselves sacred land keepers, they walked gently; they preserved the world they inhabited. Drawing on a wide rang… [more below]
- Author: Pritchard, Evan T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1571781358
- Language: English
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
$35.00 Add to cartFrom language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cu… [more below]- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1610397967
- Language: English
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One Left
$22.95 Read moreDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territo
- Author: Soom, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747668
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Biography
$19.99 Read moreThis acclaimed biography of one history’s great figures–called “monumental” (Library Journal), “brilliant” (Times, London) and “a rounded and persuasive portrait” (New York Times)—is now available i… [more below]
- Author: McLynn, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1951627547
- Language: English
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The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
$18.95 Read moreA sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something h- Author: Strathern, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362134
- Language: English
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
$22.00 Read moreIn roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction b
- Author: Ngai, Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036109
- Language: English
