Chronological Period/18th Century
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The Discovery of Tahiti
$13.50 Add to cartRomance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave a rousing welcome to the 18th-century European adventurers who discovered the island. It was not just
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0992258855
- Language: English
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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America
$39.00 Add to cartAllan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and Ne… [more below]
- Series: Studies in North American Indian History
- Author: Greer, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1316613690
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Ann Bailey: The Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley
$9.95 Add to cartBack in print after more than a century, this book is the only major biography in existence on Ann Bailey. Newly indexed and containing supplemented images and a map, it is also important for genealog… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Virgil E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0966724607
- Language: English
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The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret: George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon
$32.95 Add to cartGeorge Washington’s life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuries, but the day-to-day lives of Mount Vernon’s enslaved workers, who left few written records but made up 90 perc
- Author: Thompson, Mary V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0813941849
- Language: English
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves
$25.99 Add to cartGiles Milton’s White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.
“An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose.” –Simon W- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778239
- Language: English
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The History of the United States: A Captivating Guide to American History, Including Events Such as the American Revolution, French and Indian War, Bo
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the United States, then keep reading…
When the first settlers reached the United States of America and started to chip out a living in the wildernes
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481163
- Language: English
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The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730
$21.95 Add to cart. . . .rich in colourful detail, and displays impressive knowledge of sailing and fighting skills. –Richard Hill, The Naval Review
Accessible to both the general and the more scholarly reader, it will
- Author: Little, Benerson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1574889117
- Language: English
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First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
$39.58 Add to cartHow the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America
America’s first First Ladies–Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison-- Author: Abrams, Jeanne E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1479890502
- Language: English
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Amer Pres: Harrison
$33.00 Add to cartThe president who served the shortest term–just a single month–but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America’s highest office
William Henry Harrison died ju- Series: American Presidents (Times)
- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0805091181
- Language: English
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
$30.99 Add to cart“Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion.”
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before,
-Los Angeles Times Book Review- Author: Jacoby, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 417
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805077766
- Language: English
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The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
$24.99 Add to cartEverybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, America’s most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much better tale. Kidd was actually a tough New York sea captai… [more below]
- Author: Zacks, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: June 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0786884517
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
$27.00 Add to cartAn authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)… [more below]
- Author: Adkins, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125729
- Language: English
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Reynolds Pamphlet
$4.99 Add to cartThe Reynolds Pamphlet (1797) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Written while Hamilton was serving as Secretary of the Treasury, the Pamphlet was intended as a defense against accusations that Hamilto
- Series: Mint Editions–Historical Documents and Treaties
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1513295616
- Language: English
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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
$42.99 Add to cartThe day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198715951
- Language: English
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America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding
$27.95 Read moreThe Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles are responsible for the country’s moral and social d
- Author: Reilly, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1586179489
- Language: English
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Bayou Sara: Used to Be
$15.00 Add to cartThere’s nothing there now but a bunch of weeping willows, but in the nineteenth century, below the St. Francisville bluff was one of the most important ports on the Mississippi River. Bayou Sara had a
- Author: Butler, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1946160008
- Language: English
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The Minute Men: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution
$19.95 Add to cartThe concept of the farmer and shopkeeper pulling rifles off pegs on the wall to fight the British has been the typical image of the American minuteman. The fact that he may have had military training … [more below]
- Series: History of War
- Author: Galvin, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1597970700
- Language: English
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His Excellency: George Washington
$20.00 Read moreNational Bestseller
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400032539
- Language: English
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Out of the Depths
$14.99 Add to cartFor John Newton, one of Christendom’s greatest hymn writers and writer of “Amazing Grace,” God’s matchless grace was intensely personal. Saved from a life of slave trading, John Newton was fully aware… [more below]
- Author: Newton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0825433193
- Language: English
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES
This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughte- Author: Gordon, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0812980476
- Language: English
