General History
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The World’s Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThis outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to moder… [more below]
- Author: Copeland, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: September 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0486409031
- Language: English
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A General History of the Pyrates
$39.95 Add to cartFamed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner,
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0486404889
- Language: English
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The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
$31.65 Add to cartAn expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem,- Author: Avineri, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094791
- Language: English
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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
$19.00 Add to cartPrior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South
- Author: Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0307388506
- Language: English
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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cartThe “golden age of Islam” in the eighth and ninth centuries was as significant to world history as the Roman Empire was in the first and second centuries. The rule of Baghdad’s Abbasid Dynasty stretch… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0306814803
- Language: English
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
$21.00 Add to cartThe recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian govern… [more below]
- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226674339
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
$40.99 Add to cartIn Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Te… [more below]
- Author: Axworthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199322260
- Language: English
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Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAfter surviving the fifth century fall of the Western European Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire flourished as one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe for a thousan… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Sarris, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199236119
- Language: English
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In the Land of Israel
$14.95 Add to cart“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemi… [more below]
- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0156481146
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
$20.00 Add to cartJust when the clamor over “traditional” marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, “What tradition?” In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie… [more below]
- Author: Coontz, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 014303667X
- Language: English
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Kosovo: A Short History
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Malcolm, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0060977752
- Language: English
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The Yoruba People: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Yorubas and Yoruba Mythology
$25.99 Add to cartLearn about one of the largest people groups in Africa!
The Yorubas are an interesting people with a rich cultural heritage that can be traced back to many centuries ago. The history of the Yorubas is
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1637165587
- Language: English
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The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartThe Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, takin
- Author: Chang, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639648
- Language: English
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Violence: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures a- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dwyer, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0198831730
- Language: English
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History of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-I-Kalani-Nui: Father of Hawaiian Kings
$7.99 Add to cartHistory of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-i-kalani-nui, Father of Hawaiian Kings is a genealogical history by Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau La’anui Pratt. Written towards the end of Pratt’s life, the book was intend
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Pratt Elizabeth La’anui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1513299549
- Language: English
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade
$29.00 Read moreA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.
The most feared ship in B- Author: Rooks, A. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128267
- Language: English
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History of the Philippines: A Captivating Guide to Philippine History
$26.99 Add to cartDiscover the fascinating Philippines in this captivating book on its history, from the origins of the archipelago’s first peoples until modern times.
The Philippines is possibly the most intriguing nat
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1637163436
- Language: English
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Cambodian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Cambodia and the Khmer Empire
$28.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Cambodia, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- History of Cambodia: A Captivating Guide to Cambodian History, Including Event
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1637162987
- Language: English
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The Dancer and the Devil: Stalin, Pavlova, and the Road to the Great Pandemic
$29.99 Read moreCommunism must kill what it cannot control. So for a century, it has killed artists, writers, musicians, and even dancers. It kills them secretly, using bioweapons and poison to escape accountability…. [more below]
- Author: O’Neill, John E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1684512549
- Language: English
