General History
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The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America’s Most Cherished Holiday
$18.95 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – Drawing on a wealth of research, this “fascinating” book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Ch… [more below]
- Author: Nissenbaum, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 1997
- ISBN10: 0679740384
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$18.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021950
- Language: English
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The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
$18.00 Read more“[A] riveting story… you owe it to yourself to pick up The Last Viking. It’s that exciting, that good.”–The Washington Post
A rich and compelling account of the life of King Harald Hardrada of Norw- Series: Reeds Marine Deck
- Author: Hollway, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1472846508
- Language: English
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Empire of Signs
$18.00 Add to cartWith this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography–in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies–of Japan itself
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374522073
- Language: English
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What If…Book of Alternative History: Revisit Major Milestones That Shaped World History and Discover the Outcome If They Had Happened Differently
$19.99 Read moreThe course of history has taken many turns. What would the world be like if events had happened differently? What if JFK had never visited Dallas on November 22, 1963? What if Germany had won the Firs… [more below]
- Series: Visual History
- Author: Greenfield, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103762
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
$29.95 Read moreNo one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental imp
- Author: Sutton, Angela C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888444
- Language: English
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
$19.00 Add to cart“Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds.” –Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Narra- Author: Bellaigue, Christopher de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872480
- Language: English
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The Sea People: A Captivating Guide to the Seafarers Who Invaded Ancient Egypt, Eastern Anatolia, the Hittite Empire, Palestine, Syria
$23.99 Add to cartThe Sea People were a menace to eastern Mediterranean society and contributed to the destruction of the Late Bronze Age. But what do we really know about them?
It is difficult to know the Sea People in
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168934
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Spain
$35.00 Add to cartThe rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This updated edition traces t… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Phillips Jr, William D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1107525055
- Language: English
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Gannentaha: The 17th Century French Jesuit Mission Ste. Marie among the Iroquois Haudenosaunee at Onondaga Lake
$20.95 Add to cartSeventeenth-century North America was truly a new world for both the European and indigenous First Nations native cultures that interfaced upon that spectacular wilderness theater. For both the native
- Author: Anderson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886548297
- Language: English
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Flight from Chile: An Oral History of Exile
$41.58 Add to cart2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet’s coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next … [more below]
- Author: Wright, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365485
- Language: English
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The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine
$16.95 Add to cartAlexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian to
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Schneider, Oren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 27 2023
- ISBN10: 949327652X
- Language: English
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The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine
$23.95 Add to cartAlexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian to
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Schneider, Oren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9493276538
- Language: English
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The Roman Revolution
$17.99 Add to cartIt was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the third century”. Long before the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between … [more below]
- Series: The Fall of the Roman Empire #1
- Author: Holmes, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1739786505
- Language: English
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
$17.60 Read moreIt has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it
- Author: Goni, Uki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783789255
- Language: English
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland
$25.99 Add to cartA candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.
After ‘the long war’ in Ireland came to an end,- Author: Moloney, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489321
- Language: English
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The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History
$29.99 Add to cartThe Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth’s tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, sh
- Author: Sledge, John S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1643360140
- Language: English
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The Irish Famine: A Documentary
$17.95 Read moreA superbly pithy account of the controversies surrounding the failure of Ireland’s potato crop from 1845-1848.
- Author: Ferriter, Diarmaid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1861974604
- Language: English
