General History
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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
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Healing Haunted Histories
$40.00 Add to cartHealing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Violations which inhabit every intersection of settler and Indigenous worlds, past and present. Wou… [more below]
- Series: Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice
- Author: Enns, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1725255359
- Language: English
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History of Spain: A Captivating Guide to Spanish History, Starting from Roman Hispania through the Visigoths, the Spanish Empire, the Bo
$28.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Spain, then keep reading…
Throughout the centuries, Spain has been subject to the lordship of other countries. It was occupied by the ancient Greeks
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: December 23 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160933
- Language: English
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People
$26.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland’s past. Comprehensive and engaging, The Story of Ireland is an eye-opening account of a nation that has
- Author: Hegarty, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1250060028
- Language: English
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Yad l’Yedinitz; memorial book for the Jewish community of Yedintzi, Bessarabia
$88.00 Add to cartYedinitz, Bessarabia, compared to where we live today, was a small shtetl. Yet for us, it was a city. I can still see the streets and small lanes. Here is the small marketplace, the Torhovitse as we u
- Author: Reicher, Mordechai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 780
- Publish Date: January 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1954176600
- Language: English
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Spies in British Controlled Singapore: Policing the Japanese, 1921-1941
$34.95 Add to cartImagine being Japanese, living in Singapore in the nineteen twenties and thirties, suspected by everyone around you of being a spy.
Prior to December 1941, Singapore was the site of a major naval base
- Author: Drea, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 191527172X
- Language: English
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None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
$53.27 Add to cartToday, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. However, between the years 1933 and 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looki
- Author: Abella, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1487554389
- Language: English
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
$29.95 Read moreA comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world.
A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centurie- Author: Walvin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0520397851
- Language: English
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Ancient China: An Enthralling Overview of Chinese History, Starting from the Settlement at the Yellow River through the Xia, Shang, Z
$26.99 Add to cartIt has become a common theme in today’s world to talk about the incredible technological and economic development of modern China. However, there are very strong historical roots to the exponential gr
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651781
- Language: English
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The Spanish Conquest of the Americas: An Enthralling Overview of the Conquistadors and Their Conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires
$26.99 Add to cartThe Spanish conquest of the Americas is a pivotal part of the history of colonization.
Christopher Columbus’s discovery, albeit accidental, of a new landmass turned the world upside-down. Beginning in
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651927
- Language: English
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History’s Greatest Treasures
$20.00 Add to cartSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – From the award-winning historian and broadcaster comes an immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shar… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593686152
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartThe calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It’s hard to imagine a world without Italian influence–and easy to assume that inventions like these cou
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011456
- Language: English
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Catalogue of the New Corpus of Documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem
$57.99 Add to cartThe documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad areas of social, political, cultural and eco
- Author: Aljoumani, Said
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 3111253147
- Language: English
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
$49.58 Add to cartThis book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestiz… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies #105
- Author: Vinson III, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1107670810
- Language: English
