History & Military
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Grand Hotels of Egypt: In the Golden Age of Travel
$29.95 Read moreFrom the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Ri… [more below]
- Author: Humphreys, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 21 2015
- ISBN10: 9774167198
- Language: English
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Jefferson on Race: A Reader
$24.95 Add to cartFrom The New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read
- Author: Jefferson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0691122067
- Language: English
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Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
$20.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress th… [more below]
- Author: Goffe, Tao Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593684915
- Language: English
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Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping and urgent exploration of the crisis in Darfur and an impassioned examination of the world’s response to that crisis, from Mahmood Mamdani, “one of the most penetrating analysts of African … [more below]
- Author: Mamdani, Mahmood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0385525966
- Language: English
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Georgetown’s Retail Past: Generations of Shops and Restaurants in One of America’s Great Historic Neighborhoods
$34.95 Add to cartStep back in time and rediscover the bars and restaurants, mom-and-pop shops, and bustling storefronts that shaped historic Georgetown.
Georgetown’s Retail Past is a history of retail stores in the Ge- Author: Peters, Kenneth G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093622
- Language: English
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Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World
$29.99 Read moreThe unexplored history of the GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all matters economic, social, and cultural.
Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road,- Author: Dunn, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1639734317
- Language: English
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Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-And the American Revolution-Transformed Britain
$37.50 Read moreWhen Danielle Allen unearthed a parchment of the Declaration of Independence buried away in Sussex, England, little did she know that she had discovered a story of historical magnitude that would alte
- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1631497553
- Language: English
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The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation
$30.00 Read more- Author: Carr, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063288125
- Language: English
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Treasured Island: The Story of St. Barth . . . and Its Barbarians, Billionaires, and Beauties
$35.00 Read moreA hugely entertaining social history of the elite and exclusive Caribbean island of St. Barth?lemy from the New York Times bestselling author of Model and 740 Park.
St. Barthelemy is revered for its lu
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0063410966
- Language: English
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Cocaine: The Global Reach of the World’s Most Lucrative Illicit Drug
$34.95 Add to cartThis superbly edited volume provides scholars and general readers with an in depth view of the evolution, nature, dynamics, and consequences of the global cocaine industry.
Cocaine: The Global Reach- Series: The Americas in the World
- Author: Cutrona, Sebastián A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368212
- Language: English
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Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s
$30.00 Add to cartAs the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprisin… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0226847411
- Language: English
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Hold the Line
$19.99 Add to cartWith Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles bearing down on a remote Saudi Arabian border outpost known as OP-4, Hold the Line thrusts readers headfirst into the chaos, confusion, and raw intensity of the o
- Author: P. Jestel, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798349587962
- Language: English
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On the German Art of War
$21.95 Add to cart- English translation of the military manual that guided the German Army in World War II
- This book was carried into battle by officers and NCOs and had been classified by the U.S. Army until the year 20
- Author: Condell, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0811735524
- Language: English
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The Black History of the White House
$19.95 Add to cartThe Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved pe
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Lusane, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0872865320
- Language: English
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Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives
$27.95 Add to cartIn this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country’s crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.
Venezuela in Crisi
- Author: Bean, Anderson M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888904640
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
$21.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean per… [more below]
- Author: Targoff, Ramie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1984899511
- Language: English
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
$20.00 Read moreA strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more th- Author: McPhee, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228694
- Language: English
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Nazis of Long Island: Sedition, Espionage & the Plot Against America
$24.99 Add to cartIn Yaphank, New York, hid the greatest threat to the United States war effort during World War II: the American Nazi.
Building on racial and ethnic biases, lack of trust in government and a dose of co
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Verga, Christopher C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1467156493
- Language: English
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Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising
$24.00 Add to cartThe dangers of “progressive policing” as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.
Policing the Progressive City tells the story of how Portland’s “law and order” has been shaped for over two hundred y
- Author: Williams, Kristian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1849354286
- Language: English
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The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South
$19.95 Add to cartA timely call for Texas-and the South–to reclaim its radical history, drawing lessons for today’s struggle from the populists and socialists of yesteryear.
In blood-red states such as Texas, politics
- Author: Griscom, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1682196453
- Language: English
