Revolutions & Wars of Independence
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By: Schama, Simon
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
$38.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679726101
- Language: English
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By: Woods, Donald
Biko: The powerful biography of Steve Biko and the struggle of the Black Consciousness Movement
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart‘You are either alive and proud or you are dead … and your method of death can be a politicizing thing’ – Steve Biko
Founder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko was a natural target for t
- Author: Woods, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1839013559
- Language: English
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By: Reese, Elizabeth
Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America’s National Capital Region
$24.99PaperbackRead moreWalk in the footsteps of the Marquis de Lafayette as he makes a final trip through the young United States. Against the backdrop of a tumultuous election, a beloved hero of the American Revolution ret… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Reese, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146715587X
- Language: English
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Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria
$21.95PaperbackRead moreFollowing the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as … [more below]
- Author: Dam, Nikolaos Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1784537977
- Language: English
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By: Shorto, Russell
Revolution Song: The Story of America’s Founding in Six Remarkable Lives
$17.95PaperbackRead moreAt a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356213
- Language: English
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By: Ellis, Joseph J.
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
$19.00PaperbackRead moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian
“Accessible and electric…. [Ellis] crisply covers the decis… [more below]- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0307946371
- Language: English
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By: Stovall, Tyler
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
$49.92HardcoverRead moreThe racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom
The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave t- Author: Stovall, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0691179468
- Language: English
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By: Ellis, Joseph J.
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
$17.00PaperbackRead moreThe award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0804172471
- Language: English
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By: Marston, Daniel
The American Revolution: 1774-83
$20.00PaperbackRead moreUpdated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.
The American Revolution, or the American- Series: Essential Histories (Osprey Publishing)
- Author: Marston, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857399
- Language: English
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By: Hazan, Eric
A History of the Barricade
$17.95PaperbackRead more- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1784781282
- Language: English
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By: Wood, Gordon S.
The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner
$21.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood … [more below]
- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 02 1993
- ISBN10: 0679736883
- Language: English
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By: Gilly, Adolfo
The Mexican Revolution
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartFirst published in Spanish in 1971, The Mexican Revolution has been praised by Mexico’s Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz as a “notable contribution” to history and is widely recognized as a semi
- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Gilly, Adolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581235
- Language: English
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The Paris Commune: A Brief History
$22.95PaperbackRead moreThe Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and… [more below]
- Series: Reinventions of the Paris Commune
- Author: Eichner, Carolyn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827687
- Language: English
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By: Childs, Jessie
The Siege of Loyalty House: A Story of the English Civil War
$28.95HardcoverRead moreAn immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in the English Civil War that illuminates the human experience–and human cost–of this devastating war.
It was a time of puritans and popul- Author: Childs, Jessie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363106
- Language: English
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By: Harper, Tim
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartCundill Prize Finalist
“Superbly original…Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness emerged among revolutio
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Harper, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 067429212X
- Language: English
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By: Graham, Helen
The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartAmid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the lay-reader alike. This Very Short Introduction integr… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Graham, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0192803778
- Language: English
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By: Figes, Orlando
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
$23.99PaperbackRead moreAN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMS
In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Fig- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062624
- Language: English
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By: Studer, Brigitte
Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International
$39.95HardcoverRead moreHope, Struggle and Defeat: The Communist International and the Global Fight for Freedom
The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a last- Author: Studer, Brigitte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768010
- Language: English
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By: Keay, Anna
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
$19.99PaperbackRead moreTHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
Eleven years when Britain had no king.
In 1649 Britai
- Author: Keay, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0008282056
- Language: English
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By: Brown, Vincent
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
$21.00PaperbackRead moreWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations
Winner of the- Author: Brown, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674260295
- Language: English






