General History
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
$46.67 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
A stunning work of popular history–the story of how a crop transformed the history of sla
Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize- Author: Lewis, Jori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1620971569
- Language: English
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Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th Century World Wars and the Cold War – New Perspectives on Key Events
$27.95 Read moreAt a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history textbooks and re-examine historical events outsid… [more below]
- Author: Pauwels, Jacques R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1459416937
- Language: English
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The Story of Greece and Rome
$16.00 Read moreThe extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century
The magnificent civilization cr- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251645
- Language: English
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After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands
$49.92 Read moreA necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people
After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossess- Author: Jacobs, Margaret D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0691224331
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
$30.00 Read moreThe “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected fore… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178523
- Language: English
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The Food Adventurers: How Around-The-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat
$30.00 Read moreA delectable gastronomic expedition into the linked histories of global travel and global cuisine.
From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high s- Author: Bender, Daniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147573
- Language: English
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Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition
$29.95 Read more“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” –Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste
The classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed- Author: Ambedkar, B. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1784783528
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
$16.95 Read moreIn this real-life historical treasure hunt, bestselling author Graham Robb–“one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet (New York Times)”–reveals the mapping of an
- Author: Robb, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349926
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$17.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051027
- Language: English
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the Society for American Archaeology Book Award, The Neanderthals Rediscovered is a fascinating study of the Neanderthals, informed by the latest scientific developments and discoveries, now
- Series: Rediscovered
- Author: Papagianni, Dimitra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0500296405
- Language: English
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From Sand Creek to Summit Springs: Colorado’s Indian Wars
$25.95 Read moreThe Colorado Indian wars were indeed tragic. No more so than for the women. Their stories are frightening, tragic, heroic and courageous. From the ashes of the Sand Creek camp site, Mo-chi raises her … [more below]
- Author: Wommack, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 543
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0870046438
- Language: English
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The Story of the Moors in Spain
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1886, this book has held its place as the classic work on the Moors in Spain: a scholarly, wonderfully readable and sweeping tale of splendor and tragedy.
- Author: Lane-Poole, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: December 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121199
- Language: English
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, this thrilling biographical account of the life and legacy of Wintson Churchill is a “nail-biter and top-notch character study rolled into one” … [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0307948781
- Language: English
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Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
$22.00 Read more“SPLENDID . . . Eminently sane and patient . . . Essential reading for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike.”
Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable confli
–The Washington Post- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 29 1997
- ISBN10: 0345391683
- Language: English
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Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide
$24.95 Read moreIn the ancient world, if you needed a love charm, wanted to contact your dead wife, or needed the ability to fly like a bird, the magicians of Egypt were the ones who could make it happen. In Ancient
- Author: Riggs, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0500052123
- Language: English
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A Whaler at Twilight: A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific
$38.95 Add to cartNestled at the bottom of an old leather trunk for well over a century lay a forgotten manuscript–a long-lost story the author’s great-great-grandson has now brought to life. At the heart of A Whaler
- Author: Brash, Alexander R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074768
- Language: English
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
$26.95 Read moreIn 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were
- Author: Alexander, Rustam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 152616745X
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
$13.95 Add to cart“He was a man like no other man has ever been”
In twelve years that changed the world, Alexander the Great conquered a vast empire, extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab, and from Egyp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hammond, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199587248
- Language: English
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She Devils at the Door
$29.00 Read moreThe true story of the Gilded Age’s “political twins” who brought women’s suffrage and political reform to the city of Pittsburgh.
Sometimes troublemakers emerge from the most unlikely of places. This- Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Nonfiction
- Author: Brown, Eliza Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0887486983
- Language: English
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
$23.00 Read moreFrom the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chron… [more below]
- Author: Lefkowitz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1984854321
- Language: English
