General History
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
$25.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus Reviews
In 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanistan and installed the exiled Shah Shuja on the thron- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0307948536
- Language: English
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Basic Call to Consciousness
$12.95 Read moreRepresentatives of the Six Nation Iroquois delivered three position papers titled “The Haudenosaunee Address to the Western World” at a conference on “Discrimination Against the Indigenous Populations… [more below]
- Author: Akwesasne Notes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1570671591
- Language: English
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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
$19.99 Read moreFor centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzlin
- Author: Lyons, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1608190587
- Language: English
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
$19.99 Read more“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” –Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
“Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing shor- Author: Jackson, Jeffrey H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643752057
- Language: English
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The Taming of the Shrew: Oxford School Shakespeare
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of The Taming of the Shrew is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scho… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0198392230
- Language: English
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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five
$14.95 Add to cart“The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world’s mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods”
Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the br- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Livy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540047
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Add to cartThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
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Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the author of How the World Moves–the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History
In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a h- Author: Nabokov, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140281592
- Language: English
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
$46.67 Add to cartFrom Snow White to Cinderella, Rapunzel to Rumpelstiltskin, the Brothers Grimm bequeathed a canon of stories which have become literary and childhood classics. The most widely read story collection af
- Author: Daniel, Noel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2011
- ISBN10: 3836526727
- Language: English
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
$34.99 Read moreConnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this… [more below]
- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 019931599X
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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A Black Women’s History of the United States
$29.95 Add to cartThe award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)–the perfect companion to An Indigenous Peop… [more below]
- Series: ReVisioning American History #5
- Author: Berry, Daina Ramey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0807033553
- Language: English
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE – A Pulitzer Prize finalist that’s as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came
- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0375713964
- Language: English
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Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
$18.99 Add to cartDiscover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history — until now.
Regency England … [more below]- Author: Koch, Bea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1538701014
- Language: English
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Father and Son
$14.95 Add to cartEdmund Gosse wrote of his account of his life, “This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.” Father and Son remains one of English literature… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gosse, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539111
- Language: English
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
$18.95 Read moreThe epic history of the “iron men in wooden boats” who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville proclaimed,… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331571
- Language: English
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
$18.95 Read moreIn this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918–which inspired events that forever changed the European continent–here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and ris… [more below]
- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362975
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$56.00 Add to cartJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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Fossil Legends of the First Americans
$20.95 Add to cartThe burnt-red badlands of Montana’s Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and th
- Author: Mayor, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245614
- Language: English
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The Histories
$10.95 Add to cart“The father of history,” as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535663
- Language: English
