General History
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Phenomenology of Perception
$48.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Ph?om?ologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with th
- Author: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 610
- Publish Date: August 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0415834333
- Language: English
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The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
$23.00 Read moreAuthor of the groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America’s most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our… [more below]
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0679761454
- Language: English
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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
$19.00 Add to cartIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm’s other
volumes, th… [more below]- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772545
- Language: English
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartA magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian
- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0812984986
- Language: English
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Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
$27.95 Read moreHonorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards – Performing Arts & Music
Popular music has long been a powerful force for social chang
Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition- Author: Schreiber, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1978839022
- Language: English
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El Futuro Recordado / The Remembered Future
$17.95 Read more«Los libros de Irene Vallejo, claros e inteligentes, se leen muy bien e invitan a pensar. En la mejor línea humanista. -CARLOS GARCÍA GUAL
La aparente contradicción que da título a este lib- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820968
- Language: Spanish
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Tragicomedia Mexicana 1: La Vida En México de 1940 a 1970 / Tragicomedy 1
$13.95 Read moreLa radiografía de un país hecha por uno de sus más conocidos autores.
En este primer volumen de la Tragicomedia mexicana, que comprende de 1940 a 1970, tenemos los grandes acontecimientos políticos… [more below]- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820682
- Language: Spanish
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What Is History, Now?
$19.99 Read moreThis groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that h
- Author: Lipscomb, Suzannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 147462247X
- Language: English
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
$30.00 Read more“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”–Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestsel
- Author: Puhak, Shelley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1635574919
- Language: English
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African Europeans: An Untold History
$30.00 Read moreA dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent
One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian
Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are o… [more below]
- Author: Otele, Olivette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619676
- Language: English
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Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celina Karp Biniaz
$21.95 Read more- Author: Friedricks, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1948509385
- Language: English
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Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History
$29.95 Read moreAn exploration of historical memory and networks of meaning in the context of today’s crises of extremism and polarization.
As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell- Author: Rumsey, Abby Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048477
- Language: English
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
$16.99 Read moreFirst published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay’s distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artis
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393322394
- Language: English
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Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period
$50.00 Read moreFray Ang駘ico Ch疱ez was an American Franciscan priest, historian, researcher, author, poet, and painter. As archivist for the Santa Fe Archdiocese, he undertook the cataloguing and translating of S… [more below]
- Author: Chávez, Fray Angélico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0890132399
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Fascism
$19.00 Add to cartWhat is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.
From the first violent uniformed bands b- Author: Paxton, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033918
- Language: English
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City of Lions: Portrait of a City in Two Acts: LVIV, Then and Now
$19.95 Read more“A loving, sensuous, but also gently ironic reconstruction of a lost city” — LA Review of Books
A timely reissue of the classic portrayal of the Ukrainian city of Lviv by 2 authors in 2 acts, separat… [more below]- Author: Wittlin, Jozef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1805330012
- Language: English
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Values Matter: Stories of the Beliefs & Values That Shaped Youth with a Mission
$14.99 Read more- Author: Cunningham, Darlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1648360270
- Language: English
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Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
$35.00 Read moreA compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.
‘Both [authors] are former soldiers,- Author: Dannatt, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472860861
- Language: English
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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
$40.83 Add to cartRevised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup–“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).
Published to commemorate the fortiet- Author: Kornbluh, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589120
- Language: English
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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
$19.95 Add to cartJan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Pol
- Author: Karski, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1626160317
- Language: English
