Chronological Period/17th Century
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The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
$26.00 Add to cartFrom acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.
“There is nothing s- Author: Fraser, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250108578
- Language: English
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Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
$18.95 Add to cartLondon, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says “Fugitive Slaves” ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end
- Author: Jensen, Oskar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011421
- Language: English
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept
When renowned scientist Isaac Newton took up the po
- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0547336047
- Language: English
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The History and Archeology of the Iroquois Du Nord
$61.78 Add to cartIn the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ont
- Series: Mercury
- Author: Von Bitter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0776639803
- Language: English
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
$28.99 Add to cartRelying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, G
- Author: Silver, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334902
- Language: English
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
$23.99 Add to cartThe two volumes of Kelley and Lewis’s To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, f… [more below]
- Author: Kelley, Robin D. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181344
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Wife
$16.99 Add to cartLittle is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England’s greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Greer, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0061537160
- Language: English
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Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
$17.99 Add to cartIn 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made fa
- Author: Laplante, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 04, 2008
- ISBN10: 0060859601
- Language: English
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
$13.99 Add to cartGrace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) is a spiritual autobiography by English author and Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Written while Bunyan was serving a lengthy prison sentence for preaching
- Series: Mint Editions (in Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1513220349
- Language: English
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Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast
$18.95 Add to cartThey were bold, arrogant, brutal. They strode the rolling deck of a ship more easily than the tame streets of a town. They were wealthy–some beyond the wildest dreams of the governors and kings who f
- Author: Roberts, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 21 1993
- ISBN10: 194946718X
- Language: English
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The Children of the New Forest
$14.99 Add to cartA classic tale of historical adventure to be enjoyed by children and adults alike, set against the turbulent background of the English Civil War, as well as a charming coming-of-age story
It was in the
- Author: Marryat, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1843914875
- Language: English
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Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience
$14.99 Add to cartThe most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print.
The Salem witch trials of 1692 have assumed mythical status. Immortalised by Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, the
- Author: Francis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1841156779
- Language: English
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
$34.95 Add to cart“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” –Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard Univ… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, William C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0684863820
- Language: English
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Blackbeard the Pirate
$18.95 Read moreEdward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the Atlantic coast. He was also one of the most colorful pirates of all time, becoming the model for coun
- Author: Lee, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 1974
- ISBN10: 0895870320
- Language: English
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Macbeth
$14.00 Add to cartThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and… [more below]
- Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: December 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0521680980
- Language: English
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The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
$25.00 Add to cart“History writing at its glorious best.”–The New York Times
“A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style.”–The Economist The New York T- Series: Penguin History of Europe (Viking)
- Author: Blanning, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113895
- Language: English
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Othello
$7.99 Add to cartOthello, the general of the Venetian army, holds much power and influence but becomes the target of an insidious plot to steal his coveted position. He is overcome with paranoia and enthralled with ru
- Series: Mint Editions (Plays)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 151327175X
- Language: English
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
$19.00 Add to cartCamilla Townsend’s stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were–in th
- Series: American Portraits
- Author: Townsend, Camilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0809077388
- Language: English
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
$45.33 Add to cartThe Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples o… [more below]
- Author: Newitt, Malyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0521159148
- Language: English
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John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
$32.00 Add to cartElizabethan England’s most famous natural philosopher John Dee recorded his reflections on the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse in a series of conversations with a… [more below]
- Author: Harkness, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: November 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0521027489
- Language: English
