General History
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Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World
$18.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview–now in paperback.
This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monste… [more below]- Author: Flight, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147743
- Language: English
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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping
$27.00 Add to cart“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.”
–William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lea- Author: M?hlhahn, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248317
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
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The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia
$35.00 Read moreThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels’ business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as th
- Author: Jangfeldt, Bengt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1350348910
- Language: English
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another “captivating…persuasive as well as entertaining” journey into history (The New York Ti… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #02
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0385482493
- Language: English
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Black Man of the Nile: And His Family
$29.95 Add to cartIn a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose “Europeanized” African history. Order Black Man of the Nile here.
- Author: Ben-Jochannan, Yosef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 381
- Publish Date: November 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121261
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
$39.95 Read moreA hundred years after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate on November 1, 1922, enough time has passed to reexamine the Ottomans and reassess their legacy. This illustrated volume, by critically acc
- Author: Darke, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252661
- Language: English
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Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year
$30.00 Add to cartInterweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England–now in paperback.
Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey thro- Author: Parker, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: September 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146720
- Language: English
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Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: The British Monarchy and Secret Intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II
$32.95 Read moreSurprising revelations about the active role of the monarch in British intelligence
The British Royal Family and the intelligence community are two of the most mysterious and mythologized actors of the
- Series: Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
- Author: Aldrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123712
- Language: English
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Maps That Made History: 1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps
$95.00 Read moreMaps that Made History takes you on a 1000 year long journey around the world. Every one of the 100 carefully selected maps has influenced the course of history.
- Author: Storms, Martijn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 29 2022
- ISBN10: 9401485305
- Language: English
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Enemy of the Disaster: Selected Political Writings of Renaud Camus
$22.95 Read moreEnemy of the Disaster is the first authorized translation to appear in English of Renaud Camus’ political writings and includes his notorious 2010 speech, “The Great Replacement.” Though forty-two yea
- Author: Camus, Renaud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
$19.99 Read moreTHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
Eleven years when Britain had no king.
In 1649 Britai
- Author: Keay, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0008282056
- Language: English
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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899
$29.95 Read more“It is interesting to watch how the expressions change as you progress through the book, from optimistic in the beginning, to almost hopeless by the end… The pictures alone will offer hours of view
- Author: Berton, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1550464531
- Language: English
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Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
$35.00 Read moreThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company–from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch–to laying the groundwork for future British expansion
The East India Company was the largest- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 030025072X
- Language: English
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Eyewitness Ancient Egypt
$9.99 Read moreBecome an eyewitness to the Great Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings, discovering all the secrets of this fascinating civilization.
Travel back in time with this picture-led guide and explore the ma- Series: DK Eyewitness
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0744039630
- Language: English
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
$27.99 Read more‘Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women’ – Anita Anand
“My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. It’s a love letter to the importance of h
‘Brilliant’ – Daisy Buchanan- Author: Mosse, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1529092191
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
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China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
$37.50 Read moreA compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present
Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respe- Author: Snow, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300166656
- Language: English
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To the Ends of the Earth: How the Greatest Maps Were Made
$35.00 Read moreThis lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age.
Britain’s leading cartographic author takes- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0711282641
- Language: English
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Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
$21.00 Read moreWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations
Winner of the- Author: Brown, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674260295
- Language: English
