General History
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The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi
$19.95 Add to cartA Saracen stronghold throughout the long history of the Crusades, Damascus served as the capital city for Nur al-Deen, Saladin, and other medieval Muslim leaders. From this prime vantage point comes a… [more below]
- Author: Gibb, H. A. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0486425193
- Language: English
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A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
$33.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region … [more below]
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0393344258
- Language: English
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
$27.99 Add to cartOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imp
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338606
- Language: English
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God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
$24.95 Read moreWhether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of … [more below]
- Author: Spence, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315568
- Language: English
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Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
$28.99 Add to cartFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life–how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dresse… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0393313913
- Language: English
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1787: The Grand Convention
$29.99 Add to cartIn this masterly account of the Philadelphia summer when our Constitution was born, Clinton Rossiter establishes his claim that the year 1787 is preeminent in American history. Bringing to life the se… [more below]
- Author: Rossiter, Clinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393304043
- Language: English
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Passage to Ararat
$23.99 Add to cartIn Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exile
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Arlen, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530122
- Language: English
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium: An Englishman’s World
$18.99 Add to cartAs the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World was About to End. Actually, it was Only the Beginning… Welcome to the Year 1000. This is What Life… [more below]
- Author: Lacey, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0316511579
- Language: English
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
$24.99 Add to cartThe spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and- Author: Rosbottom, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0316217433
- Language: English
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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
$22.99 Add to cartCalled “fast-paced” (Kirkus Reviews) and “highly engrossing” (Publishers Weekly), this is the behind-the-scenes story of the world’s most famous palace.
The story of Versailles is one of high historic- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603460
- Language: English
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines–and Future
$20.00 Add to cartWith over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of l
- Author: House, Karen Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473287
- Language: English
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The Dillinger Days
$24.99 Add to cartFor thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will (the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, in… [more below]
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306806266
- Language: English
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The Jewish Women of Ravensbr?k Concentration Camp
$24.95 Add to cartRavensbr?k was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal inject… [more below]
- Author: Saidel, Rochelle G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: March 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0299198642
- Language: English
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Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
$24.95 Add to cartAn English translation of Chapa’s Historia de Nuevo Le, the first history of the region that eventually became Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Winner, Presidio La Bah僘 Award, Sons of the Republic- Author: Chapa, Juan Bautista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0292717954
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries, they provided the stimulu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199590966
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the lar… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bowden, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0198706154
- Language: English
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A History of the Vikings
$26.99 Add to cart“An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English or in any language.”– Scandinavian Studies
The subject o- Author: Jones, Gwyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: July 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0192801341
- Language: English
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The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
$21.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of- Author: Lim, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190227915
- Language: English
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
$27.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unanswered–his journals were impounded and his men were forbidden, on pain of death, to di… [more below]
- Author: Bawlf, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004596
- Language: English
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War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History, Revised and Updated
$27.00 Add to cart“Remarkable…breathtaking in its scope and historical precision, this is highly recommended volume for both publivc and academic libraries.–Library Journal.
- Author: Shlaim, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140245642
- Language: English
