General History
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
$20.00 Read moreA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets
In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sug- Author: Mintz, Sidney W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140092331
- 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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Happy Odyssey
$24.95 Add to cartAdrian Carton de Wiart’s autobiography is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs.
He was intended for the law, but abandoned his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1899 to serve as a troop… [more below]
- Author: Carton de Wiart, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1844155390
- Language: English
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Battleground: 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
$28.00 Add to cartThe essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Sprin- Author: Phillips, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0300263422
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval City
$18.99 Read more“Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention… Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies.” –George R.R. Ma
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415182
- Language: English
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Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation
$19.99 Add to cart“A riveting and vivid account. … A remarkable story. … It reads like a Hollywood screenplay.” —Foreign Affairs
The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage
- Author: Vogel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062449605
- Language: English
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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
$27.95 Read more“In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essen
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 189095117X
- Language: English
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A History in Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era
$49.95 Read more- Author: Cornelius, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 197660009X
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Read moreThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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Phenomenology of Perception
$48.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Ph?om?ologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with th
- Author: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 610
- Publish Date: August 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0415834333
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Fascism
$19.00 Add to cartWhat is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.
From the first violent uniformed bands b- Author: Paxton, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033918
- Language: English
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Horses, Hitches, and Rocky Trails: The Packer’s Bible
$12.95 Add to cartWritten in the language of the West, this is a complete and often humorous presentation of packing horses into the wilderness. Amplified by the beautiful, often witty drawings, Back includes step-by-s… [more below]
- Series: Little Western Library
- Author: Back, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1555664776
- Language: English
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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
$21.99 Add to cartThis incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational an… [more below]
- Author: Nirenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347915
- Language: English
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Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape
$16.00 Read moreNow in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and country lanes believed to be created and shaped by the Dark Lord himself.
According to legend, the Eng- Author: Harte, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1789148332
- Language: English
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A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99 Add to cart“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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The History of Money
$18.00 Add to cart“If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read “–Charles R. Schwab
Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationshi- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0609801724
- Language: English
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Notes on a Lost Flute: A Field Guide to the Wabanaki
$29.95 Add to cartAnyone interested in Native American lifeways will want to pore over Notes on a Lost Flute. Hardy brings together his expertise in forestry, horticulture, and environmental science to tell us about Ne… [more below]
- Author: Hardy, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0892727799
- Language: English
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
$30.00 Add to cartThis classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships
Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a- Author: Moore, Barrington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807050733
- 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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The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings
$19.95 Add to cartA documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is … [more below]
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 151790644X
- Language: English
