General History
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A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
$21.95 Add to cartBuilding on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes.
An “indispensable volume” on class… [more below]- Author: Harman, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1786630818
- Language: English
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America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartThe Instant New York Times Bestseller!
Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has mad- Author: Hancock, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1250756952
- Language: English
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Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History
$49.99 Add to cartEvangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to ar… [more below]
- Author: White, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345238
- Language: English
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
$20.00 Add to cartThe author of Powers and Thrones and presenter of Netflix’s Secrets of Great British Castles offers a vivid account of the events that inspired Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Richard I… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127888
- Language: English
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
$19.00 Add to cartA powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803
“One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724672
- Language: English
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Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
$21.95 Add to cartMost books on the Roman and Greek Empires deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things that seldom appear in history books: myths and magi
- Author: Ryan, Garrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1633887022
- Language: English
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane’s Eye–the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0141001828
- Language: English
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The LGBTQ + History Book
$34.99 Add to cartDiscover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world – their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.
Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0744070732
- Language: English
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
$18.00 Add to cartThis disturbing expos? describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Euro… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Paul L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1633884783
- Language: English
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History of the World Map by Map
$50.00 Add to cartExplore the history of the world in unprecedented detail with this ultimate guide to history throughout the ages.
Maps don’t just show us where to go, but also where we’ve been. If you’re interested … [more below]- Series: DK History Map by Map
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0744084962
- Language: English
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Salt: A World History
$19.00 Add to cart“Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.” – New York Times Book Review
An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World Best-selling author Mark- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0142001619
- Language: English
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
$19.95 Add to cartWhy did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354326
- Language: English
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
$24.00 Add to cartIn Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict, told from both sides.
Setting the scene
- Author: Black, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128602
- Language: English
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
$19.99 Add to cartThe book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1851685553
- Language: English
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The Secret Parchment: Five Tibetan Initiation Techniques
$29.95 Add to cartAfter a hall of records was discovered beneath the Romanian Sphinx in 2003, an ancient parchment surfaced in the highest mountains of Tibet. This book tells the story of the detailed political intrigu
- Author: Cinamar, Radu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 09, 2013
- ISBN10: 1937859134
- Language: English
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The Histories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Add to cart“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.” —The Times Literary Supplement
In Tom Holland’s vibrant translation, one of the great masterpiece- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107542
- Language: English
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
$18.00 Add to cart**New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**
To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is.- Author: Hammer, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476777411
- Language: English
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A History of Japan: Revised Edition
$18.95 Add to cartA classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.
Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Sta- Author: Mason, R. H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 15, 1997
- ISBN10: 080482097X
- Language: English
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
$20.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked the
- Series: Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865-69
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 06, 2001
- ISBN10: 0743203178
- Language: English
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Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
$24.99 Add to cartFrom stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imaginati… [more below]
- Author: Pinch, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0195170245
- Language: English
