Americas (North Central South West Indies)
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The Spanish Conquest of the Americas: An Enthralling Overview of the Conquistadors and Their Conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires
$26.99 Add to cartThe Spanish conquest of the Americas is a pivotal part of the history of colonization.
Christopher Columbus’s discovery, albeit accidental, of a new landmass turned the world upside-down. Beginning in
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651927
- Language: English
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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Ea… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cheyette, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198809956
- Language: English
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American Business History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBy the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a “business civilization.” President Coolidge in 1925 said, “The chief business of the American people is business.” M… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Friedman, Walter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190622474
- Language: English
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Man, God, & Civilization
$24.00 Add to cartDrawing from sources of ancient, classic, and contemporary literature, the author shows how European culture was derived from the older civilizations of Africa and Asia.
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: April 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1930097174
- Language: English
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The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950
$27.99 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century–five decades that transformed America–from the author of Only Yesterday.
During the first fifty years of the twenti- Author: Allen, Frederick Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1504068238
- Language: English
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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
$12.00 Add to cartThe history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which “civilization” was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land an
- Author: Hill, Gord
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1604861061
- Language: English
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It’s Always Uphill from the Dock
$40.00 Add to cartHere is a look at the Puget Sound islands throughout history-the San Juan Islands, Whidbey Island, Bainbridge and Vashon Islands, and many others. Featured are the people who have come to the islands
- Author: Irish, Ann B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1941890415
- Language: English
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Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possesions: A Faithful Account of Many Wonderful and Surprising Things, That Have Befallen Several
$19.75 Add to cartTitle: Memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts and possesions: a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things, that have befallen several bewitched and possessed persons in New-Eng… [more below]
- Author: Mather, Cotton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: February 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1275720307
- Language: English
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The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre
$27.95 Read morePatagonia’s Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around t… [more below]
- Author: Cordes, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1938340337
- Language: English
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Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth
$35.99 Add to cartThe story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198861559
- Language: English
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Canada: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartCanada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multic… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wright, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198755244
- Language: English
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The Everything American History Book: People, Places, and Events That Shaped Our Nation
$17.00 Add to cartStarting with the first Viking explorations and continuing to the present day, The Everything American History Book, 2nd Edition takes you on a thrilling tour through history. It’s packed with facts a… [more below]
- Series: Everything (History & Travel)
- Author: McGeehan, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 1598692615
- Language: English
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Puerto Rico: A National History
$32.00 Add to cartA panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, P- Author: Mel?ndez-Badillo, Jorell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0691231273
- Language: English
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Captivating Guide to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Stories of the Slaves That Were Brought to the Americas
$27.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating and cruel history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, then keep reading…
Did you know that during the 18th century on certain Caribbean islands, such as Jamaica
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: February 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1637162057
- Language: English
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
$29.95 Add to cartThe Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spa
- Author: Todorov, Tzvetan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0806131373
- Language: English
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From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition
$30.00 Add to cartHow Pittsburgh Positioned Itself as a Center of Culture and Innovation at the Turn of the Century
In From the Steel City to the White City, Zachary Brodt explores Western Pennsylvania’s representati- Author: Brodt, Zachary L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0822947919
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
$25.00 Read moreA Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America’s history vividly to life.
What happened in North America betwe- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428324
- Language: English
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Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality
$45.92 Add to cartIn Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men’s intimacies with men during the nineteenth century–including those of Abraham Lincoln–drawing flesh-and-blood portraits of intimate friend… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Jonathan Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: June 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0226426165
- Language: English
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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
$13.99 Add to cartThe Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas — and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Restall, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0190645024
- Language: English
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Since Yesterday: The 1930’s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
$19.99 Add to cart“Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession.”–… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 1986
- ISBN10: 0060913223
- Language: English
