General History
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Letters from Mexico
$24.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1638231974
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Scotland: Wit, Whisky and Wisdom
$8.95 Read moreLand of spectacular landscapes, rich history and fabulous legends.
With its jaw-dropping beauty, magnificent architecture, superb art and culture, and friendly, hospitable people, Scotland is consiste
- Series: Little Books of Cities & Countries #8
- Author: Hippo!, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1800694016
- Language: English
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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
$22.99 Add to cart
A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind–the Great Irish Potato Famine–conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality
In this ma- Author: Kelly, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250032172
- Language: English
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Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
$39.99 Add to cartIn this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utili… [more below]
- Author: Huang, Xuelei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1009207040
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Brazil
$32.00 Add to cartThe second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America’s largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil’s history from the arrival of the Portuguese… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Fausto, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1107635241
- Language: English
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Eastern Europe!, 2nd Edition: Everything You Need to Know about the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does
$29.95 Add to cart100 ratings (4.6/5) on Amazon for the first edition: The long-awaited new edition of the acclaimed, first-ever comprehensive, informative, and entertaining history of Eastern Europe in English–thorou
- Author: Jankowski, Tomek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 742
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0997316926
- Language: English
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Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore
$18.95 Read moreOn a snowy morning in January 1910, the Alaska Steamship Company liner Farallon ran aground on Black Reef in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. Thirty-eight men escaped in the ship’s lifeboats and reached the
- Author: Lloyd, Steve K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0874221943
- Language: English
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Iona: The Other Island
$23.99 Add to cartIn this exciting and beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona, we find inspiring photography, brand new poems, tales recounting legends, local stories and Celtic passages from Adamnan – but there is much
- Author: Steven, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0861538307
- Language: English
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A World Without Jews
$12.00 Add to cartA World Without Jews by Karl Marx speaks about religious prejudice specifically against Jews. It begs to question can the world survive without this prejudice and how Jews beg for political emancipati… [more below]
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 01 1959
- ISBN10: 0806529539
- Language: English
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The Shaman’s Coat: A Native History of Siberia
$13.00 Add to cartThe fascinating history of an unknown people
A vivid mixture of history and reporting, The Shaman’s Coat tells the story of some of the world’s least-known peoples-the indigenous tribes of Siberia. Ru… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0802776760
- Language: English
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Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox
$17.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Scourge provides a definitive account of the dramatic story of smallpox by a leading “expert on biological and chemical weapons” (The New York Times). Jonathan B. … [more below]
- Author: Tucker, Jonathan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139396
- Language: English
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Budapest 1900
$18.00 Add to cartLukacs’s book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city’s history. . . . {His} true sympathy lies . . . not with the famous expatriates, but w… [more below]
- Author: Lukacs, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0802132502
- Language: English
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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Hardscrabble New England
$16.95 Add to cartThe story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wil… [more below]
- Author: Mayo, Matthew P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0762759682
- Language: English
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Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars
$24.95 Add to cartUsing first-person accounts in historical archives, David Roberts presents many sides of the Native American rebellion that began in the mid-1800s.
Once They Moved Like The Wind is the epic story of t- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0671885561
- Language: English
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
$30.00 Add to cartIn what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) #61
- Author: Clendinnen, Inga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0521527317
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
$35.00 Add to cartThis book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic ‘Orange Revolution’ … [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0521155118
- Language: English
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1848: Year of Revolution
$22.99 Read moreA “lively, panoramic” history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had ke- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020674
- Language: English
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Inside the Dream Palace
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing
“Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea’s artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of t- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334477
- Language: English
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Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
$20.99 Add to cartOne of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a l
- Author: Gutman, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0395901308
- Language: English
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
$28.99 Add to cartIn a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tel… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 039332754X
- Language: English
