General History
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History of the World Map by Map
$50.00 Add to cartExplore the history of the world in unprecedented detail with this ultimate guide to history throughout the ages.
Maps don’t just show us where to go, but also where we’ve been. If you’re interested … [more below]- Series: DK History Map by Map
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0744084962
- Language: English
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Salt: A World History
$19.00 Add to cart“Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.” – New York Times Book Review
An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World Best-selling author Mark- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0142001619
- Language: English
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
$19.95 Add to cartWhy did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354326
- Language: English
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
$23.00 Add to cartIn Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict, told from both sides.
Setting the scene
- Author: Black, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128602
- Language: English
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
$19.99 Add to cartThe book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1851685553
- Language: English
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The Secret Parchment: Five Tibetan Initiation Techniques
$29.95 Add to cartAfter a hall of records was discovered beneath the Romanian Sphinx in 2003, an ancient parchment surfaced in the highest mountains of Tibet. This book tells the story of the detailed political intrigu
- Author: Cinamar, Radu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 09, 2013
- ISBN10: 1937859134
- Language: English
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The Histories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Add to cart“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.” —The Times Literary Supplement
In Tom Holland’s vibrant translation, one of the great masterpiece- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107542
- Language: English
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A History of Japan: Revised Edition
$18.95 Add to cartA classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.
Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Sta- Author: Mason, R. H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 15, 1997
- ISBN10: 080482097X
- Language: English
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Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumph… [more below]
- Author: Lansing, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0842308245
- Language: English
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Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
$23.99 Add to cartFrom stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imaginati… [more below]
- Author: Pinch, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0195170245
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670363X
- Language: English
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
$24.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history–the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors
- Author: Reséndez, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 18, 2017
- ISBN10: 054494710X
- Language: English
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
$22.00 Add to cart“Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is he
- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984880896
- Language: English
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
$22.99 Add to cartA “thrilling” (Wall Street Journal) history of the Vikings by a pre-eminent scholar
The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, ex
- Author: Price, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601114
- Language: English
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty–“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)
The first Pl- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143124927
- Language: English
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$18.99 Add to cartIn SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome “with passion and without technical jargon” and demonstrates how “a slightly shabby Iron Age village” rose to become the “undispute
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1631492225
- Language: English
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – From the author of Empire of Pain–a stunning, intricate narrative about a notoriou… [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0307279286
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$20.00 Add to cartErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd beco… [more below]- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 030740885X
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$22.99 Read moreAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0316418528
- Language: English
