General History
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The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
$22.99 Read more100 fascinating, unexpected, and startling stories you didn’t learn in history class, presented by The History Channel
History is filled with unpredictable people and unbelievable stories. Consider:
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- Series: Greatest Stories Never Told
- Author: Beyer, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0060014016
- Language: English
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The Vikings: A History
$20.00 Read moreA comprehensive and thrilling history of the Vikings for fans of the History Channel series, soon to return for its fifth season
From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared seamen and plundere- Author: Ferguson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0143118013
- Language: English
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Epigrams: With Parallel Latin Text
$16.95 Add to cart“If you’re one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.”
The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Martial
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199645450
- Language: English
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Tristes Tropiques
$22.00 Read moreA milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology
This watershed work records Claude L?i-Strauss’s search for “a human society reduced to its most basic expression.” From
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106252
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Read moreThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
$29.95 Add to cartThe Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuri… [more below]
- Author: Arrighi, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1844673049
- Language: English
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The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy
$21.00 Read moreDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Gre… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1137278838
- Language: English
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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
$35.00 Read moreThis reader, compiled by renowned Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney in collaboration with the Solzhenitsyn family, provides in one volume a rich and representative se… [more below]
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1935191551
- Language: English
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb’s Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
“A fantastic tru… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0547248024
- Language: English
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. – “A splendid book in … [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0307946916
- Language: English
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The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America’s Most Cherished Holiday
$18.95 Read morePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – Drawing on a wealth of research, this “fascinating” book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Ch… [more below]
- Author: Nissenbaum, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 28 1997
- ISBN10: 0679740384
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$18.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021950
- Language: English
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The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
$18.00 Read more“[A] riveting story… you owe it to yourself to pick up The Last Viking. It’s that exciting, that good.”–The Washington Post
A rich and compelling account of the life of King Harald Hardrada of Norw- Series: Reeds Marine Deck
- Author: Hollway, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1472846508
- Language: English
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Empire of Signs
$18.00 Add to cartWith this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography–in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies–of Japan itself
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374522073
- Language: English
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What If…Book of Alternative History: Revisit Major Milestones That Shaped World History and Discover the Outcome If They Had Happened Differently
$19.99 Read moreThe course of history has taken many turns. What would the world be like if events had happened differently? What if JFK had never visited Dallas on November 22, 1963? What if Germany had won the Firs… [more below]
- Series: Visual History
- Author: Greenfield, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103762
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
$29.95 Read moreNo one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental imp
- Author: Sutton, Angela C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888444
- Language: English
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The Lion House: The Coming of a King
$19.00 Add to cart“Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds.” –Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Narra- Author: Bellaigue, Christopher de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872480
- Language: English
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The Sea People: A Captivating Guide to the Seafarers Who Invaded Ancient Egypt, Eastern Anatolia, the Hittite Empire, Palestine, Syria
$23.99 Add to cartThe Sea People were a menace to eastern Mediterranean society and contributed to the destruction of the Late Bronze Age. But what do we really know about them?
It is difficult to know the Sea People in
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637168934
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Spain
$35.00 Read moreThe rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This updated edition traces t… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Phillips Jr, William D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1107525055
- Language: English
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Gannentaha: The 17th Century French Jesuit Mission Ste. Marie among the Iroquois Haudenosaunee at Onondaga Lake
$20.95 Add to cartSeventeenth-century North America was truly a new world for both the European and indigenous First Nations native cultures that interfaced upon that spectacular wilderness theater. For both the native
- Author: Anderson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886548297
- Language: English
