19th Century
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The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize – One of The Economist‘s top history books of the year
From one of our leading historians, the definitive history of the Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Ind- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0143110934
- Language: English
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The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland
$29.95 Add to cartFollowing the Civil War, large corporations emerged in the United States and became intent on maximizing their power and profits at all costs. Political corruption permeated American society as those … [more below]
- Author: Kruger, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496228138
- Language: English
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Israel: A History
$35.00 Add to cartWritten by one of Israel’s most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Orga… [more below]
- Series: Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
- Author: Shapira, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1611686180
- Language: English
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The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America
$19.99 Add to cartAmerica was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line — the first American railroad — in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the spee… [more below]
- Author: Wolmar, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1610393473
- Language: English
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Suicide & Spirits
$16.00 Add to cartJourney back in time to the opulent days of St. Louis in the Gilded Age and discover the true story of the Lemp family and its rise to power, wealth and extravagance. It’s a story that has become lege… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1892523736
- Language: English
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Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation
$18.00 Add to cartFrom its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas–from Freemasonry to Spiritualis
- Author: Horowitz, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0553385151
- Language: English
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Nevermore
$16.00 Add to cartNEVERMORE
THE HAUNTED LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE
There are very few among those with a love for the supernatural who don’t also have a passion for Edgar Allan Poe. Poe wasn’t simply a
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1735270652
- Language: English
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Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior
$19.00 Add to cart“In the hands of Mike Leach and Buddy Levy, the story of this brilliant Apache leader comes into sharp focus, both in their narrative of his life and in spirited commentaries on its meaning” (S.C. Gwy… [more below]
- Author: Leach, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1476734976
- Language: English
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The Robber Barons
$22.99 Add to cartPrize-winning historian and biographer Matthew Josephson’s The Robber Barons is the story of the Gilded Age’s giant American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the s… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Josephson, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 24 1962
- ISBN10: 156767902
- Language: English
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Ghostlahoma
$13.00 Add to cartOklahoma, Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Plain – and Ghosts of the Past Still Linger With over 100 years under its belt, Oklahoma has not only a very colorful, but also a very haunted history… [more below]
- Author: Hacker, Tonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: February 20 2009
- ISBN10: 1892523647
- Language: English
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Novel of the Century
$23.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Les Mis rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537402
- Language: English
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The Year of Decision 1846
$38.00 Add to cartYear of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the
- Author: Devoto, Bernard Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267940
- Language: English
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The Spirit of Controversy: And Other Essays
$12.95 Add to cartWilliam Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets…. [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hazlitt, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0199591954
- Language: English
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Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
$34.95 Add to cartTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177598
- Language: English
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Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle
$13.99 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and… [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1573922021
- Language: English
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
$29.95 Add to cartAn engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in Ameri- Author: Marcus, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254338
- Language: English
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
$16.00 Add to cartA “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece–from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane’s Eye
One of the gr- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123971
- Language: English
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece
$17.99 Add to cartThe Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts ho
- Author: Montillo, Roseanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 006202583X
- Language: English
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Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West
$30.00 Add to cartThe explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drur
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1250285836
- Language: English
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Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
$28.00 Add to cart“George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet’s most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you’ll never think of our first–in many ways our greatest–national park
- Author: Black, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 1250023203
- Language: English
