Modern Library Chronicles
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Law in America: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThroughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s great… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Friedman, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0812972856
- Language: English
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Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game
$20.00 Add to cart“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”–Lee Eisenbe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Vecsey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0812978706
- Language: English
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The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
$19.00 Add to cartThe Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974883
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966198
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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Islam: A Short History
$18.00 Add to cartNo religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular imagination as an extreme faith that promotes terrorism, authoritarian government, female oppression, and… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296618X
- Language: English
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The Korean War: A History
$22.00 Add to cartA BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 081297896X
- Language: English
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
$20.00 Add to cart“I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would argua… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0812968492
- Language: English
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
$21.00 Add to cartIn this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0812974476
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: A History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970411
- Language: English
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California (a History)
$23.00 Add to cart“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Starr, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 081297753X
- Language: English
