General History
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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
$35.00 Add to cartIn Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the da… [more below]
- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0812994000
- Language: English
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By Fire, by Water
$16.99 Read moreRecipient of the Independent Publishers Award for Historical Fiction (Gold Medal), the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction (Bronze Medal), and an honorable mention in the category o… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Mitchell James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1635424003
- Language: English
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The Persians: Lost Civilizations
$29.00 Read moreNow in paperback, this is a history of an incomparable culture whose influence can still be seen, millennia later, in modern-day Iran and the wider Middle East.
During the first and second millennia- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Parker, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146895
- Language: English
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Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance
$60.00 Read moreA lavish survey of Renaissance master sculptor Donatello and his works–captured in photographs from some of the nation’s most renowned art museums
Arguably the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatel- Author: Motture, Peta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1838510346
- Language: English
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Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer
$28.00 Read moreZelda Popkin’s adventurous life could have made her the protagonist of one of her own novels. In his brilliant telling of the story of her life, her historian grandson, Jeremy D. Popkin, has made a si
- Author: Popkin, Jeremy D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 153816843X
- Language: English
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The Story of Civilization Test Book: Volume I – The Ancient World
$14.95 Read moreThis test book serves as a companion resource to The Story of Civilization: Volume I, The Ancient World. With this book, students can test their reading comprehension and further educate themselves on… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1505105692
- Language: English
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Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations
$40.00 Read moreNation to Nation explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of No… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Suzan Shown
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1588344789
- Language: English
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History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago
$15.95 Read moreDr. Eric Williams was Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1961 until his death in 1981. He built his reputation as a historian as Professor of Political and Social Science at Howard University,… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Eric Eustace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 15 2010
- ISBN10: 161759010X
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Celebrity Autopsies
$24.99 Read moreFrom JFK to Marilyn–the morbid, medical, and mysterious facts behind the most famous celebrity deaths.
When a life ends tragically whether by violence or accident, pathologists perform an autopsy to- Author: Viani, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1620877198
- Language: English
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An Illustrated History of the Philippines
$39.95 Read moreBeginning with a definition of who the people of The Philippines are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to describe the prehistory of the country through to 1500 AD. The next two chapter
- Author: Canoy, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1912081962
- Language: English
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Vienna. Portrait of a City
$81.67 Add to cartVienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur–but be
- Author: Hirsch, Andreas J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: October 30 2019
- ISBN10: 3836567261
- Language: English
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The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?
$17.00 Read moreIn 1917 the working class and peasantry of Russia carried out one of the most deep-going revolutions in history. Yet within ten years a political counterrevolution was under way. Workers and peasants … [more below]
- Author: Trotsky, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0873482263
- Language: English
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February 1965: The Final Speeches
$17.00 Read moreGathers speeches Malcolm X made during the last three weeks of his life.
- Series: Studies. Southwest Asia Series; 89
- Author: Malcolm X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0873487494
- Language: English
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
$17.95 Read moreThe Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book–a dramatic, o
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498924
- Language: English
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Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
$35.00 Read moreA perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger’s diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in thei… [more below]
- Author: Indyk, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1101947543
- Language: English
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A History of Europe: From Pre-History to the 21st Century
$12.99 Read moreLeading historian Jeremy Black brings together the continent’s common threads of history from the end of the ice ages until the present day.
A History of Europe is a masterful narrative which takes re- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1398802395
- Language: English
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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
$24.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and A… [more below]
- Author: Ghazvinian, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0307472388
- Language: English
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Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming Volume 103
$57.43 Read more“Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what’s in the sky for strength, what’s in the water … the land, body parts. Every na… [more below]
- Series: McGill-Queen’s Indigenous and Northern Studies
- Author: Payne, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0228011051
- Language: English
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The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
$29.00 Read moreHow did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil chronicles the heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operativ… [more below]
- Author: Hope, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593240650
- Language: English
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Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
$32.95 Read moreA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year
The history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could h
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year- Author: Gewirtz, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674241843
- Language: English
