General History
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Victorians
$40.99 Add to cartAs one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers,
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 738
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325431
- Language: English
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
$22.99 Add to cartIn an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422601
- Language: English
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The Greeks and Greek Civilization
$34.00 Add to cartIn 1872, Jacob Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based
- Author: Burckhardt, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0312244479
- Language: English
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in
$24.99 Add to cartToday’s Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0306817403
- Language: English
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Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
$24.95 Add to cartBetween A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds–including the world’s largest known bird effigy–a… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Land and Life (Paperback)
- Author: Birmingham, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: December 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0299232646
- Language: English
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Antarctica: A Biography
$40.99 Add to cartSince the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world’s imagination. David Day’s brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating d… [more below]
- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 642
- Publish Date: June 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0199861455
- Language: English
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Rome’s Italian Wars: Books 6-10
$14.95 Add to cart“People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.”
Here is a superb new translation of Books 6 to 10 of Livy’s monumental history o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Livy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 019956485X
- Language: English
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When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 (Revised)
$23.99 Add to cartA hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s fi… [more below]
- Author: Levathes, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 1997
- ISBN10: 0195112075
- Language: English
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A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire
$22.99 Add to cartWeird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it re… [more below]
- Author: Kaldellis, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0190625945
- Language: English
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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now–As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
$19.99 Add to cart“A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor’s p
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062005863
- Language: English
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A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
$19.99 Add to cartThe word “German” was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of Ge
- Author: Ozment, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0060934832
- Language: English
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Mythology of Mesopotamia: Fascinating Insights, Myths, Stories & History From The World’s Most Ancient Civilization. Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylon
$19.99 Add to cartEmpires rose and fell along the banks of the Tigris & Euphrates, whilst a civilization as yet unsurpassed emerged…
Discover Myths, History & More From The World’s Most Ancient Civilization!
Mesopotam
- Author: Brought Alive, History
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 191431218X
- Language: English
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Whose Samosa Is It Anyway
$31.50 Read moreIn this book, accompany Sonal Ved on a journey of taste through the various timelines across the Indian subcontinent. We go from the banks of the Indus in 1900 bc to the great kingdoms of the north ma… [more below]
- Author: Ved, Sonal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0670092401
- Language: English
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Cuban Privilege
$42.00 Add to cartFor over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal r… [more below]
- Author: Eckstein, Susan Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1108830617
- Language: English
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Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West
$34.99 Add to cartThe archetype of the “witch” is burnt deep into the European psyche, recurring again and again in folklore and fairytales. But is she merely the stuff of fantasy? Roald Dahl warned that witches don’t
- Author: Dutton, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1593680783
- Language: English
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El Mundo Prehispánico Para Gente Con Prisa
$17.95 Read moreUna cuenta de Twitter quiere acabar con los mitos de la Historia de México , asà describió El PaÃs a Enrique Ortiz, mejor conocido como Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc, divulgador de la historia que revela l… [more below]
- Author: Cuauhtémoc, Tlatoani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 6070774663
- Language: Spanish
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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John: Homilies I-XX, Illustrated
$12.74 Add to cartThis set of sermons was delivered by St. John Chrysostom (347 – 407), when, most likely, he was a priest in Antioch, which at the time was under the rule of the Byzantine empire. John Chrysostom is re… [more below]
- Author: Chrysostom, St John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1034657720
- Language: English
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Germania: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Region in Europe Where Germanic Tribes Dominated and How It Transformed into G
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Germania, then keep reading…
Germany is a relatively young nation-state. United in 1871, it’s even younger than the United States. However, the terr
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637161352
- Language: English
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The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive, tour-de-force analysis of the birth of slavery, racism, and white supremacy in the American South–and how it shaped our modern world.
“A must-read for all social justice activists, t- Author: Allen, Theodore W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1839763922
- Language: English
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A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany
$19.99 Add to cart“Evocative. . . . Epic. . . . Chock-full of colorful anecdotes and charismatic figures, A Demon-Haunted Land not only offers a brilliant rethinking of postwar German history, but also asks us to see t
- Author: Black, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250813859
- Language: English
