General History
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A History of the Middle East: Fifth Edition
$25.00 Read moreThe definitive history of the Middle East that provides the historical context to today’s headlines – now in its fifth edition
“The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economic- Author: Mansfield, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0143121901
- Language: English
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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
$35.00 Add to cartIt’s been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces -… [more below]
- Author: Peckham, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1788167236
- Language: English
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Warning to the West
$18.00 Add to cartAlexander Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West includes the texts of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s three speeches in the United States in the summer of 1975, his first major public addresses since hi
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0374513341
- Language: English
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
$20.00 Read moreA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets
In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sug- Author: Mintz, Sidney W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140092331
- Language: English
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Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition
$29.95 Read more“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” –Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste
The classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed- Author: Ambedkar, B. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1784783528
- Language: English
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Happy Odyssey
$24.95 Read moreAdrian Carton de Wiart’s autobiography is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs.
He was intended for the law, but abandoned his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1899 to serve as a troop… [more below]
- Author: Carton de Wiart, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1844155390
- Language: English
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Battleground: 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
$28.00 Read moreThe essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Sprin- Author: Phillips, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0300263422
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval City
$18.99 Read more“Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention… Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies.” –George R.R. Ma
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415182
- Language: English
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From Light Into Darkness: The Evolution of Religion in Ancient Egypt
$16.95 Read moreHave popular modern religions developed out of practices in ancient Egypt? Did religion in Egypt represent only a shadow of the spiritual practices of prehistoric people? This work explores the teachi… [more below]
- Author: Mehler, Stephen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1931882495
- Language: English
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Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation
$19.99 Read more“A riveting and vivid account. … A remarkable story. … It reads like a Hollywood screenplay.” —Foreign Affairs
The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage
- Author: Vogel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062449605
- Language: English
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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
$26.95 Read more“In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essen
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 189095117X
- Language: English
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A History in Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era
$49.95 Add to cart- Author: Cornelius, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 197660009X
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Add to cartThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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Phenomenology of Perception
$45.99 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 Anatomy of Fascism
$18.00 Read moreWhat 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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Horses, Hitches, and Rocky Trails: The Packer’s Bible
$12.95 Add to cartWritten in the language of the West, this is a complete and often humorous presentation of packing horses into the wilderness. Amplified by the beautiful, often witty drawings, Back includes step-by-s… [more below]
- Series: Little Western Library
- Author: Back, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1555664776
- Language: English
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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
$21.99 Read moreThis incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational an… [more below]
- Author: Nirenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347915
- Language: English
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Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape
$16.00 Read moreNow in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and country lanes believed to be created and shaped by the Dark Lord himself.
According to legend, the Eng- Author: Harte, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1789148332
- Language: English
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A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99 Add to cart“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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The History of Money
$18.00 Add to cart“If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read “–Charles R. Schwab
Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationshi- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0609801724
- Language: English
