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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$31.18 Read moreThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 520375858
- Language: English
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
$22.00 Add to cartDividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 13 1996
- ISBN10: 0679730052
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$19.95 Add to cartThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397894
- Language: English
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
$19.99 Add to cartThis original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to … [more below]
- Author: Russell, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1501176730
- Language: English
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Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties, the
$23.99 Add to cartThe classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: August 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0060935502
- Language: English
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
$49.99 Add to cartAcheson (1893-1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economi… [more below]
- Author: Acheson, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: August 24 2010
- ISBN10: 0393304124
- Language: English
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Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
$21.99 Add to cartA thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini–Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe–and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream in
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0062967266
- Language: English
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The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
$28.32 Add to cartThe landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author
In this award-winning investigation into the over- Author: Prashad, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977621
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$35.00 Add to cartThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 11 2004
- ISBN10: 1400063140
- Language: English
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The Soviet Sixties
$35.00 Read moreThe story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union
Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in the Soviet Union was ju- Author: Hornsby, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250525
- Language: English
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
$24.00 Read moreThe first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 “Valuable . . . offers many le- Author: Mulder, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0300270488
- Language: English
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February 1933: The Winter of Literature
$29.95 Read moreIt all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise
- Author: Wittstock, Uwe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1509553797
- Language: English
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
$24.00 Add to cart- Author: Elkins, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 030747349X
- Language: English
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A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History
$25.99 Add to cartMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing techno
- Author: Gilbert, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 17 2002
- ISBN10: 006050594X
- Language: English
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Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World
$29.95 Read moreAt 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944. Assigned the job of testing and refining the
- Author: Lindorff, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888959
- Language: English
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The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care
$29.95 Read more“A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one.”–Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.
A suspenseful, au
- Author: Wunsch, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 9, 2023
- ISBN10: 1771649453
- Language: English
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His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine
$32.00 Read moreFrom historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall o… [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1982168277
- Language: English
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction
$35.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Asw… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 052550947X
- Language: English
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The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years
$30.00 Read moreDallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns.
Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly b- Author: Landis, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641609443
- Language: English
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Great Speeches of the Twentieth Century
$9.00 Add to cartA great speech can stir the soul — and move a nation. This compact and affordable anthology gathers complete speeches and selected excerpts from some of the twentieth century’s most memorable address
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17, 2011
- ISBN10: 0486474674
- Language: English
