General History
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Kinderszenen
$20.00 Add to cartAn old man-poet, playwright, essayist, and scholar-sifts through the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like to grow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War II. T
- Author: Rymkiewicz, Jaroslaw Marek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821503
- Language: English
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71
$18.95 Add to cart“Superbly acute and unashamedly complex.”–The Telegraph
“Rich and provocative.”–Times Literary Supplement
“An engaging exploration.”–The New Yorker
“The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another c- Series: Sather Classical Lectures
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0520401492
- Language: English
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Serbs and Albanians
$29.00 Add to cartReleased for the first time in the English language, and marking the centennial of Albania’s independence, Serbs and Albanians delivers an at once refreshing and comprehensive insight into the cultura… [more below]
- Author: Sufflay, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 098871292X
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics
$19.95 Add to cartThe only thorough treatment of Lincoln’s Indian policy during the Civil War and the corrupt “Indian System” of government aid that mainly benefited ambitious whites.
- Author: Nichols, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518756
- Language: English
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
$23.99 Add to cartThe Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France,
- Author: Zuckerman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0865475784
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartA lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women’s rights at a vital time in our national history.
The American women who worked for our country’s indepence in 1776 hoped the new Republic wou- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0809016222
- Language: English
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
$38.99 Read moreGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.
Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 080484755X
- Language: English
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Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
$19.00 Add to cartIn March, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary, followed soon after by Adolf Eichmann and his SS Sondercommando. His single goal was to eliminate the entire Jewish population of the country. Rez… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0802717411
- Language: English
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Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
$18.00 Add to cart“Richly detailed and well-researched, this heartbreaking history unfolds like a political thriller with a deeply human side.”–Publishers Weekly
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most signi- Author: Hicks, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0802145698
- Language: English
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The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier
$18.00 Add to cartA lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts… [more below]
- Author: Flannery, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137199
- Language: English
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Origins of the Second World War
$19.99 Add to cartFrom influential British historian A.J.P. Taylor, a reprint of his influential text The Origins of the Second World War. Controversial for his thesis that Hitler was an opportunist with no thorough pl… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, A. J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684829479
- Language: English
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933 the Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933
$28.95 Add to cartCalled “one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism” by The New Yorker, this highly acclaimed work of history unravels the secret financial web which Hitler spun across Europe and around… [more below]
- Author: Pool, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0671760831
- Language: English
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The Pearl District: Placemaking From The Ground Up
$21.95 Add to cartThe history of the Pearl District’s evolution began in the 1970s. Later in the mid-1980s, developers and their investors bought and repurposed old warehouses, thereby introducing a new urban lifestyle
- Author: Johnson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: July 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0578280469
- Language: English
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God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
$19.99 Add to cartEstablished by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews — and with bur
- Author: Murphy, Cullen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0547844581
- Language: English
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A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East
$55.25 Add to cartAcross centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the … [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Middle East #6
- Author: Sharkey, Heather J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: April 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0521186870
- Language: English
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Imagining England’s Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
$34.95 Add to cartEngland has long built its sense of self on its past. What does it mean for Geoffrey of Monmouth to call forth King Arthur from the post-Roman fog, for William Morris to resurrect the skills of the me
- Author: Owens, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0500024332
- Language: English
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The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi
$19.95 Add to cartA Saracen stronghold throughout the long history of the Crusades, Damascus served as the capital city for Nur al-Deen, Saladin, and other medieval Muslim leaders. From this prime vantage point comes a… [more below]
- Author: Gibb, H. A. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0486425193
- Language: English
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A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
$33.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region … [more below]
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0393344258
- Language: English
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
$27.99 Add to cartOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imp
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338606
- Language: English
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God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
$24.95 Read moreWhether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of … [more below]
- Author: Spence, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315568
- Language: English
