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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
$21.99 Add to cartA “meticulously researched and comprehensive” (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s Congo
At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europ- Author: Stearns, Jason K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541706064
- Language: English
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The Meaning of the Second World War
$24.95 Add to cartThe very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Bel… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History
- Author: Mandel, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1844674797
- Language: English
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$21.99 Add to cartThe epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
“Rich…fascinating.”–The Wall Street Journal Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But - Author: Farmer, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607953
- Language: English
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Carthage: A New History
$39.99 Add to cartFor six hundred years, the city of Carthage dominated the western Mediterranean. Founded in the ninth century BCE as a small colonial outpost, by the third, it had grown into the area’s largest, riche
- Author: MacDonald, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123273
- Language: English
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The Garden and the Jungle: How the West Sees the World
$16.99 Add to cartAn award-winning French journalist’s far-ranging critique of Europe’s betrayal of universal values and equal rights as war and right-wing populism spread worldwide, with a new introduction for U.S. re… [more below]
- Author: Plenel, Edwy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 163542559X
- Language: English
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Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to the Modern Era
$32.00 Add to cartA history of the economics of warfare from the Viking Age to our current era, revealing how armed conflict has influenced world power.
Wars are expensive, both in human terms and monetary ones. But wh- Author: Weldon, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100309
- Language: English
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Retribution: A Us Marine’s Fight for Justice, from the Russian Gulag to Ukraine’s Front Lines
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Reed, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063428547
- Language: English
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Afro-Decolonial Manifesto
$21.00 Add to cartOffering a compelling call to arms while challenging the pervasive grip of colonialism on the Black psyche, this manifesto charts a course toward a future defined by autonomy, dignity, and radical lib
- Series: Quilombola
- Author: Ajari, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1803094648
- Language: English
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Worlds of Islam: A Global History
$40.00 Add to cartA sweeping global history of Islam, tracing the 1,400-year evolution of a diverse community of faith and its place in the modern world
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith- Author: McDougall, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1541600142
- Language: English
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Fifty Railroads That Changed the Course of History
$24.95 Read morePraise for a previous title in the series:
Fifty Minerals that Changed the Course of History
“Interesting, affordable and readable…. Offers the reader an opportunity to delve further into each mi- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Laws, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0228104033
- Language: English
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A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
$27.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era
This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and conve- Author: Cook, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691236593
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
$19.99 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111275
- Language: English
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Chaos Under Heaven: America, China, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century
$18.99 Add to cartThe explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.-China relationship
Now
- Author: Rogin, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699282
- Language: English
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Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth
$32.50 Add to cartA groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope
Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo s- Author: Worster, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278977
- Language: English
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Good-Bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
$29.95 Read more- Author: Finell, Karin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826265464
- Language: English
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartPopulist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk–the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most r
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105828
- Language: English
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The Impossible Mission
$60.95 Add to cartOur decision to go to war in Iraq was controversial, but our decision to terminate the Iraq war should have been even more controversial.
After eight-and-a half years of war, and the sacrifice of 4,61
- Author: Caslen, Robert L., Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1977281133
- Language: English
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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
$25.00 Add to cartAn award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)–that the West is, and always has been, truly global.
“Those archaic- Author: Quinn, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593729803
- Language: English
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A Call at 4 Am: Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions That Shaped Israeli Politics
$32.00 Add to cartThe full and untold story of Israeli politics penned by one of Israel’s most distinguished political journalists.
“The phones had been installed in every corner of the apartment, and all started ringi- Author: Segal, Amit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895652022
- Language: English
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Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
$35.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans, the multi-million copy, international bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of women in one
- Author: Chang, Jung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0063480042
- Language: English
