General History
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African Europeans: An Untold History
$30.00 Read moreA dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent
One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian
Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are o… [more below]
- Author: Otele, Olivette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619676
- Language: English
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Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celina Karp Biniaz
$21.95 Read more- Author: Friedricks, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1948509385
- Language: English
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Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History
$29.95 Read moreAn exploration of historical memory and networks of meaning in the context of today’s crises of extremism and polarization.
As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell- Author: Rumsey, Abby Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048477
- Language: English
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
$16.99 Read moreFirst published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay’s distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artis
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393322394
- Language: English
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Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period
$50.00 Read moreFray Ang駘ico Chç–±ez was an American Franciscan priest, historian, researcher, author, poet, and painter. As archivist for the Santa Fe Archdiocese, he undertook the cataloguing and translating of S… [more below]
- Author: Chávez, Fray Angélico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0890132399
- Language: English
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City of Lions: Portrait of a City in Two Acts: LVIV, Then and Now
$19.95 Read more“A loving, sensuous, but also gently ironic reconstruction of a lost city” — LA Review of Books
A timely reissue of the classic portrayal of the Ukrainian city of Lviv by 2 authors in 2 acts, separat… [more below]- Author: Wittlin, Jozef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1805330012
- Language: English
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Values Matter: Stories of the Beliefs & Values That Shaped Youth with a Mission
$14.99 Read more- Author: Cunningham, Darlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1648360270
- Language: English
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Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
$35.00 Read moreA compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.
‘Both [authors] are former soldiers,- Author: Dannatt, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472860861
- Language: English
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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
$40.83 Add to cartRevised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup–“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).
Published to commemorate the fortiet- Author: Kornbluh, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589120
- Language: English
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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
$19.95 Add to cartJan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Pol
- Author: Karski, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1626160317
- Language: English
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
$18.99 Read moreWith this “impeccable” (BBC History) chronicle, acclaimed popular historian Ruth Goodman reveals a Renaissance Britain particularly rank with troublemakers. From snooty needlers who took aim with a cu
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496247
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Canada
$35.00 Add to cartMargaret Conrad’s history of Canada explains what makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state. Beginning in Canada’s deep past with the arrival of its Indigenous peoples, she trac… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Conrad, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: August 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1108736378
- Language: English
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Aesop’s Fables
$7.99 Read moreThe original Aesop Fables, introduced by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Over two hundred familiar tales from ‘Look Before You Leap’ and ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ to much less familiar tales, eac… [more below]
- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Aesop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0141345241
- Language: English
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Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
$20.00 Read moreWinner of Randy Shilts Award
In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts–th- Author: Beachy, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0307473139
- Language: English
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Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
$21.95 Add to cartCundill Prize Finalist
“Superbly original…Breaks new ground by showing how a collective consciousness emerged among revolutio
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Harper, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 067429212X
- Language: English
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
$16.99 Read more“You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?” asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. “What the ice gets, ” replied Sir Ernest Shackleton,
- Author: Worsley, Frank Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319946
- Language: English
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The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartThis landmark book probes Muslims’ attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit,
- Series: Princeton Classics #11
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0691160872
- Language: English
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Salvador
$17.00 Add to cart“Terror is the given of the place.” The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion “brings the country to life” (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a parti… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751831
- Language: English
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Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-Zone Warfare Opens the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
$23.00 Read moreAn authoritative analysis of how Putin’s Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using ‘grey zone’ warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous special forces with cyber, sabotage, and propaganda.
- Series: Raid #59
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853849
- Language: English
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Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
$18.95 Read more“Outstanding.” – The Sunday Times
“Beautifully written.” The Times
“Superbly adroit.” The Spectator
“Excellent.” BBC History Magazine
The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading- Author: Parker, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1350383406
- Language: English
