General History
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History of England: A Captivating Guide to English History, Starting from Antiquity through the Rule of the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of England, then keep reading…
There are few places that entice the imagination quite like England. Just a little island off the western coast of conti
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 164748362X
- Language: English
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On the Back of a Turtle: A Narrative of the Huron-Wyandot People
$32.95 Add to cartOn the Back of a Turtle is an all-inclusive history of the Huron-Wyandot people-from before the creation of the Great Island, now called North America, to the present day. No other full-length history… [more below]
- Author: Divine, Lloyd E., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0814255140
- Language: English
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Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World
$40.99 Add to cartA major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts
Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of- Author: Covey, R. Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190299126
- Language: English
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Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny
$19.99 Add to cartLearn why the Roman Republic collapsed — and how it could have continued to thrive — with this insightful history from an award-winning author.
In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J.- Author: Watts, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646487
- Language: English
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Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo’s Yoshiwara Pleasure District
$14.99 Add to cartGeishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics.
“Floating World” refers to Japan’s traditiona- Author: Longstreet, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 4805315431
- Language: English
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THE Matter and Memory
$6.90 Add to cartMatter and Memory presents an analysis of the classical philosophical problems concerning this relation. Within that frame the analysis of memory serves the purpose of clarifying the problem. Matter a… [more below]
- Author: Bergson, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 8026892445
- Language: English
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
$39.00 Read moreWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world withou
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Groebner, Valentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951722
- Language: English
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash
$31.95 Add to cartA revealing and fresh take on the extraordinary story of Captain Vancouver, one of history’s greatest explorers. From 1791 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as captain of a major expedition… [more below]
- Author: Bown, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1771004258
- Language: English
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Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History
$19.95 Add to cart“Uncovers some of the most interesting stories of how animals … have impacted human civilization in economic, political, and industrial history. This is an original approach that links the biologic
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Chaline, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 30 2015
- ISBN10: 177085634X
- Language: English
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The Murder of Cleopatra: History’s Greatest Cold Case
$20.00 Add to cartA world-renowned criminal profiler takes a fascinating look at one of the most tragic mysteries in history. For more than two thousand years, the great pharaoh Cleopatra VII has been portrayed as a fa… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1616146508
- Language: English
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Letters from Mexico
$14.99 Add to cartHernan Cortes’s Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town o… [more below]
- Author: Cortes, Hernan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1607964910
- Language: English
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A Pastor’s Sketches: Conversations with Anxious Souls Concerning the Way of Salvation
$38.00 Add to cart“A Pastor’s Sketches is a sobering and challenging reminder that the Holy Spirit is the true agent of conversion. This book is urgently needed today when so much of our evangelism is patterned after c… [more below]
- Author: Spencer, Ichabod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: July 28 2006
- ISBN10: 1599250853
- Language: English
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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History
$31.10 Add to cartHistory Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004
- Author: Lindaman, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: July 04 2006
- ISBN10: 1595580824
- Language: English
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
$21.99 Add to cartCiudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate ex… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 1568586450
- Language: English
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Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties
$32.99 Add to cartFrom the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics.
Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 19- Author: Goodwin, Richard N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 828
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1497676576
- Language: English
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Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
$23.00 Add to cartWith a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reve… [more below]
- Author: Saul, John Ralston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1476718962
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great Wa
$37.43 Add to cartMcAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century, where creative dynamos set their respective circles on fire with their revolutionary visions and discoveries. But all was not w… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1442276134
- Language: English
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The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
$26.00 Add to cartA beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs’ grip on Europe’s historical and cultural imagination.
In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into e
- Author: Wolff, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1503635643
- Language: English
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A Brief History of History
$24.00 Read moreIn A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell about the past are a crucial aspect of all cultures. How
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0253066093
- Language: English
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Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity
$32.95 Add to cartIn recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation’s most r… [more below]
- Author: Senie, Harriet F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124993
- Language: English
