General History
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfac… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bull, Anna Cento
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198726511
- Language: English
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Time’s Monster: How History Makes History
$19.95 Add to cartA New Statesman Best Book of the Year
“Powerful and radically important.”
–Robert Gildea, Times Literary Supplement “Bracingly describes the ways imperialist historiography has shaped visions of the f- Author: Satia, Priya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292170
- Language: English
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Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History (Teacher’s Guide)
$7.99 Add to cartIntegrate into your educational program This modern teacher’s guide will help you make the most of your Adams’ Chart of History. Filled with suggested activities, sample skill tests, and ideas it mak… [more below]
- Author: Master Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 31
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0890515352
- Language: English
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The Fifth Star: Ohio’s Fight for Women’s Right to Vote
$28.00 Add to cartHow Ohio’s women were essential to the national women’s suffrage movement
Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a
- Author: Capuzza, Jamie C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1606354558
- Language: English
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Extreme North: A Cultural History
$18.95 Read moreScholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man’s-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cr
- Author: Chase, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050284
- Language: English
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused
- Author: Connolly, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0465093957
- Language: English
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Olympic Titanic Britannic: The Anatomy and Evolution of the Olympic Class
$38.00 Read moreThe Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons.
The Olympic Class liners were conceived as the largest, grandest ships ever to se- Author: Mills, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1472988655
- Language: English
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After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany
$35.00 Read moreA wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany–from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts
After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in- Author: Kater, Michael H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259247
- Language: English
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Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World
$18.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview–now in paperback.
This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monste… [more below]- Author: Flight, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147743
- Language: English
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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping
$27.00 Add to cart“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.”
–William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lea- Author: M?hlhahn, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248317
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
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The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia
$35.00 Read moreThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels’ business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as th
- Author: Jangfeldt, Bengt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1350348910
- Language: English
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The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on another “captivating…persuasive as well as entertaining” journey into history (The New York Ti… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #02
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0385482493
- Language: English
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Black Man of the Nile: And His Family
$29.95 Add to cartIn a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose “Europeanized” African history. Order Black Man of the Nile here.
- Author: Ben-Jochannan, Yosef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 381
- Publish Date: November 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121261
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
$39.95 Read moreA hundred years after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate on November 1, 1922, enough time has passed to reexamine the Ottomans and reassess their legacy. This illustrated volume, by critically acc
- Author: Darke, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252661
- Language: English
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Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year
$30.00 Read moreInterweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England–now in paperback.
Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey thro- Author: Parker, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: September 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146720
- Language: English
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Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: The British Monarchy and Secret Intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II
$32.95 Read moreSurprising revelations about the active role of the monarch in British intelligence
The British Royal Family and the intelligence community are two of the most mysterious and mythologized actors of the
- Series: Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
- Author: Aldrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123712
- Language: English
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Maps That Made History: 1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps
$95.00 Read moreMaps that Made History takes you on a 1000 year long journey around the world. Every one of the 100 carefully selected maps has influenced the course of history.
- Author: Storms, Martijn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 29 2022
- ISBN10: 9401485305
- Language: English
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Enemy of the Disaster: Selected Political Writings of Renaud Camus
$22.95 Read moreEnemy of the Disaster is the first authorized translation to appear in English of Renaud Camus’ political writings and includes his notorious 2010 speech, “The Great Replacement.” Though forty-two yea
- Author: Camus, Renaud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
