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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
$21.99 Add to cartIn this extraordinary book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
“Terrific… Tamim Ansary explores the underappreciated ways- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1541706226
- Language: English
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol. III: Louis XIV to the Brink of World War I, A.D. 1661 – 1914
$64.99 Add to cartThis third volume of Conrad Black’s magnificent series opens with the assumption of direct rule by Louis XIV of France and covers the great sweep of history with the rise of Russia, the decline of the
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1966833091
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics, and Power
$29.95 Add to cartRevealing the sweeping saga of the world’s oldest–and most treasured–currency, this is the first definitive history of gold.
The Secret History of Gold tells the sparkling, eye-opening, and definiti- Author: Frisby, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100996
- Language: English
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White Supremacy
$29.95 Add to cart- Author: Broich, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1009627694
- Language: English
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The Return of the Great Powers
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed historian, a sweeping study of the past, present, and future of the Great Powers, revealing the new rules of global leadership.
From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Col- Author: Simms, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1541605837
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism
$35.00 Read moreA cultural history of liberalism–one of our most widely used yet misunderstood terms–that reveals why the world urgently needs a more liberal mindset.
So-called liberalism has been twisted out of sh- Author: Wooldridge, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1639369376
- Language: English
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The God of Our Fathers: The Great Stories of the Bible
$22.99 Add to cartAs a way of connecting with his dying father, Aldo Cazzullo picks up the Bible and rediscovers an illuminating book that “speaks of us,” and whose legacy of storytelling formed our modern world
Until- Author: Cazzullo, Aldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0063489082
- Language: English
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Calendar:: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
$17.99 Add to cartThe adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in Washington, the world’s official timekeeper si
- Author: Duncan, David Ewing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0380793245
- Language: English
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100 Mistakes That Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World
$32.00 Add to cartCollected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world.
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history i- Author: Fawcett, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 042523665X
- Language: English
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The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
$33.99 Add to cartToday, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism–it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the w
- Author: Jackson, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106875
- Language: English
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- Language: English
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The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World
$39.50 Add to cartA bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene–the killing age.
We are used to speakin- Author: Crais, Clifton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827410
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartHow only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271844
- Language: English
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Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today
$39.00 Add to cartAn illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting the role maps played in concealing and revealing knowledge across centuries.
Is there anything more intriguing than a sec
- Author: Harper, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0226846164
- 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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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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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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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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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
