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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900
$35.00 Add to cartCommerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world
It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expa- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0312616112
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
$36.00 Add to cart“An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read.”
The blockbuster New York Times bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular
—The Wall Street Journal- Author: MacGregor, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124153
- Language: English
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
$22.00 Add to cartA sweeping narrative history of world trade–from Sumer in 3000 BC to the firestorm over globalization today–that brilliantly explores trade’s colorful and contentious past and provides fresh insight
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144160
- Language: English
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Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation
$12.95 Add to cartIn 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, leading an expedition of five ships and over 270 men, set sail from Spain in search of the Spice Islands. Three years later, one ship returned to port with just 18 men. Ma… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Travel, Adventure
- Author: Pigafetta, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280993
- Language: English
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Historic Battlefields in 500 Walks
$27.99 Read moreTour hundreds of historic battlefields across the world with this captivating guide to exploring the sites where empires rose and fell.
Stretching across the millennia from prehistoric times to the 20- Series: 500 Walks
- Author: Fallon, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1667200496
- Language: English
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The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartHermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society – from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests,
and mountains, depicted in art, literature, and
- Author: Rodriguez, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736866508
- Language: English
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
$19.00 Read moreMark Kurlansky’s first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy–with recipes throughout.
According t- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1632863839
- Language: English
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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man’s Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
$25.48 Add to cartNow part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa–and the terr
- Author: Lindqvist, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1565843592
- Language: English
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Timelines of World History
$40.00 Add to cartAn illustrated record covering all the major events and achievements in human history. Designed for history aficionados, trivia buffs, or anyone with a curious mind, Timelines of World History takes a… [more below]
- Series: DK Timelines Adult
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0744056276
- Language: English
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of End Times
In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the ke- Author: Turchin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0452288193
- Language: English
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Complete Flags of the World: The Ultimate Pocket Guide
$22.00 Add to cartExplore the fascinating world of flags!
Find intriguing stories and factoids on the design of country, province, state and special flags. Read how these flags are used as heraldic symbols, cultural an… [more below]- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0744045622
- Language: English
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
$29.99 Add to cartEuropeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid an
- Author: Bale, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064579
- Language: English
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A Concise History of the World
$34.00 Add to cartThis book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world hi… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Wiesner-Hanks, Merry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 405
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1107694531
- Language: English
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Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
$30.00 Read moreDo leaders make history or does history make leaders? A deep dive into how we define, seek, and become leaders.
We live in a period of leadership in crisis. At home, and across the globe, we sense t- Author: Temkin, Moshik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541758471
- Language: English
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
$20.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great an
- Author: Hecht, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 551
- Publish Date: September 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0060097957
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
$21.00 Add to cartThe 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency
“[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis.” —The Washington Post
“F- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116177
- Language: English
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Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble
$7.99 Add to cartAn exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.
In ‘Waterloo’, Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most
- Series: Making History (Paperback)
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2006
- ISBN10: 000719076X
- Language: English
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
$18.99 Add to cart“You’ll finish [Greenfield’s] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.”–Houston Chronicle
Int
- Author: Greenfield, Amy Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0060522763
- Language: English
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An Edible History of Humanity
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses charts the enlightening history of humanity through the foods we eat.
More than simply sustenance, food historically has been a kind of te- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 3, 2010
- ISBN10: 0802719910
- Language: English
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The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic
$27.95 Read moreFollowing one woman’s voyage across the Antarctic, this elegant debut confronts the dark history of the whaling industry and the mystery of one young whaler’s death against the backdrop of the vast So… [more below]
- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Winterbottom, Sandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400906
- Language: English
