Chronological Period/18th Century
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George Washington’s Barbados Diary, 1751-52
$37.95 Add to cartIn the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island of Barbados–the one and only time that the future Re
- Author: Washington, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0813941377
- Language: English
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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
$19.99 Add to cartFrank Lambert details America’s nineteenth-century conflicts in the Middle East in The Barbary Wars.
The history of America’s conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the pr- Author: Lambert, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0809028115
- Language: English
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
$30.99 Add to cart“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” –Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082611
- Language: English
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
$19.99 Add to cartThe Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation-… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Stewart, David O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0743286936
- Language: English
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A General History of the Pyrates
$39.95 Read moreFamed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner,
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0486404889
- Language: English
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Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
$34.99 Add to cartAmerica’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 580
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351297
- Language: English
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
$29.99 Add to cartJames Merrell’s brilliant book is an account of the “go-betweens,” the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a refl
- Author: Merrell, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319768
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Kant
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Allen W. Wood
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the r
With translations by F. Max M ller and Thomas K. Abbott- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757333
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$22.00 Read more“O pure of heart! thou need’st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be!”
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140423532
- Language: English
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Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1785, an African American woman, Elizabeth, was sold to her fifth enslaver. She had no idea that Robert Townsend, a son of her first enslaver, would locate her and safeguard her child–nor that Rob
- Author: Bellerjeau, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1493076493
- Language: English
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
$49.58 Add to cartThis book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestiz… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies #105
- Author: Vinson III, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1107670810
- Language: English
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Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
$24.95 Add to cartPresenting an advanced and authoritative perspective, this definitive study chronicles the rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious Enlightenment-era guild surrounded by myth. Descri… [more below]
- Author: Melanson, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 531
- Publish Date: January 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0977795381
- Language: English
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A Perfect Love: Understanding John Wesley’s A Plain Account of Christian Perfection: Expanded Edition
$16.00 Add to cart- Author: Manskar, Steven W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 088177426X
- Language: English
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993
In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0805030077
- Language: English
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
$32.50 Add to cartThe philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of sign… [more below]
- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0618872027
- Language: English
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Hegel: A Biography
$85.00 Add to cartOne of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major… [more below]
- Author: Pinkard, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 812
- Publish Date: June 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0521003873
- Language: English
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America’s Revolution at Sea
$27.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE – “A meticulous, adrenaline-filled account of the earliest days of the Continental Navy.”–New York Times bestselling author Laurence Berg… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0451416112
- Language: English
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
$24.00 Add to cartLouis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within
- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312320299
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the adve… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Allen, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198706782
- Language: English
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The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
$23.99 Add to cartLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0190625368
- Language: English
