Modern - 20th Century - General
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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMahon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0198859546
- Language: English
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live–and to create–with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish… [more below]
- Author: Watling, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593319664
- Language: English
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Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
$26.00 Add to cartThe untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history
In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European inte- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Mittelmeier, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 300259301
- Language: English
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The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
$29.99 Add to cartWe often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global populat
- Author: Brands, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 132403694X
- Language: English
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
$33.00 Add to cartA Washington Post most anticipated fall book
“How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently dema
A legendary editor’s reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0374270961
- Language: English
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Contemporary China: 1949 to the Present
$35.00 Read moreWith a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This boo
- Author: Guiheux, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1509552499
- Language: English
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
$18.00 Read moreUnafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, u… [more below]
- Author: Glendon, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760466
- Language: English
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The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
$20.00 Read moreFrom bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII
In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of- Author: Nasaw, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110993
- Language: English
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Goering’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
$24.00 Read moreA charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world
“[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a n- Author: Petropoulos, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300274262
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
$25.00 Add to cartAbout national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0679720197
- Language: English
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The Ultimate 70s Collection: Iconic Musicians and Albums, Movies That Defined a Generation, Legendary Toys and Videogames
$19.99 Read moreHow do you remember the seventies? Whether it’s as the “Me Decade,” the heatwave of 1976, or the Winter of Discontent, you’ll find something in these pages to stir up nostalgia for the pop culture tha… [more below]
- Author: Romero, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103789
- Language: English
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The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
$34.95 Read moreIn the single month of September 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated or disciplined six of its members. These six individuals-some of them intellectuals, some activist… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Sara M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1560854669
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison
$31.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodi… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593632079
- Language: English
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The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
$19.99 Add to cartThe Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms … [more below]
- Author: Eisner, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328600
- Language: English
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Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International
$39.95 Read 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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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Read moreThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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The Jefferson City Civil Pilots: From Lincoln University to Tuskegee Airmen
$24.99 Read moreAviation captivated young men before World War II, regardless of their skin color. But few Black enthusiasts had access, means or opportunity until the Civil Pilot Training program. Lincoln University… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Brooks, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154490
- Language: English
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The Naughty Nineties: The Decade That Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web
$24.99 Add to cartFeaturing a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenu… [more below]
- Author: Friend, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 153876749X
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$32.99 Add to cartEqual parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest th
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0063371405
- Language: English
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
$34.00 Add to cartA thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time–from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Opera… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014279
- Language: English
