General History
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By: Vasagar, Jeevan
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
$28.95HardcoverRead moreA compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore–the world’s most successful city-state.
In 1965, Singapore’s GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After- Author: Vasagar, Jeevan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139347
- Language: English
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By: Scott, Julius S.
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
$24.95PaperbackRead moreWinner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and- Author: Scott, Julius S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1788732480
- Language: English
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A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: In All Countries and in All Times
$49.95PaperbackRead moreWidely considered the classic book in the field, George Cameron Stone’s A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times is an indispensable resou… [more below]
- Series: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor
- Author: Stone, George Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 02 1999
- ISBN10: 0486407268
- Language: English
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From Light Into Darkness: The Evolution of Religion in Ancient Egypt
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartHave popular modern religions developed out of practices in ancient Egypt? Did religion in Egypt represent only a shadow of the spiritual practices of prehistoric people? This work explores the teachi… [more below]
- Author: Mehler, Stephen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1931882495
- Language: English
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By: Zakaria, Anam
1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India
$24.95PaperbackRead moreThe year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people’s homes and their stories, and in political discourse.
- Author: Zakaria, Anam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 014345403X
- Language: English
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By: Cook, James R.
The Journals of Captain Cook
$18.00PaperbackRead moreThe writings of a first-rate scientist and daring adventurer–the subject of New York Times bestselling historian Hampton Sides’s The Wide Wide Sea
John Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacif… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cook, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140436472
- Language: English
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By: Brown, Norman O.
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
$29.95PaperbackRead moreA shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
- Author: Brown, Norman O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 387
- Publish Date: June 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0819561444
- Language: English
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By: Mertz, Henriette
The Mystic Symbol: Mark of the Michigan Mound Builders
$21.95PaperbackRead moreAn expanded edition of the original classic, long out-of-print, The Mystic Symbol describes thousands of Christian, inscribed tablets, unearthed across Michigan. The Michigan Mound Builders left behin… [more below]
- Author: Mertz, Henriette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0970398549
- Language: English
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By: Lane, Kevin
The Inca: Lost Civilizations
$29.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca.
In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the lar- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Lane, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145465
- Language: English
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By: Ross, John F.
The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cart“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”–The Wall Street Journal
A timely, thrilling acc
“A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history.”–Nature- Author: Ross, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0143128957
- Language: English
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By: Parker, Philip
World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartTake a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world.
Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an es- Series: DK Ultimate Guides
- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1465462406
- Language: English
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
$49.33PaperbackRead moreA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti- Series: America in the World #20
- Author: Osterhammel, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1192
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169802
- Language: English
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The Buccaneers of America
$14.95PaperbackRead moreA cross between genuine privateers, commissioned to defend a country’s colonies and trade, and outright pirates, buccaneers were largely English, French, and Dutch adventurers who plied the waters amo
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Exquemelin, Alexander O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 26 2000
- ISBN10: 048640966X
- Language: English
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Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone
$19.95PaperbackRead moreThere is still a pervasive notion that Indians did not inhabit the Yellowstone area. Drawing on the results of ongoing archaeological excavations and extensive ethnographic work among descendant nativ… [more below]
- Author: Loendorf, Lawrence L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0874808677
- Language: English
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By: Villegas, Harry
Cuba & Angola the War for Free
$10.00PaperbackAdd to cartBeginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s white supremacist re… [more below]
- Author: Villegas, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1604880937
- Language: English
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By: Gilland, Asa
Welcome to Maine (Welcome To)
$10.99HardcoverRead moreWelcome to Maine! Whether they’re locals or visitors, young readers will love this bright, cheerful, fact-filled picture book celebration of “The Pine Tree State.”
With information about the state’s a- Series: Welcome to
- Author: Gilland, Asa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0593308107
- Language: English
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By: Rees, Laurence
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
$22.99PaperbackRead moreAn award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin’s vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them.
Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all- Author: Rees, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 161039965X
- Language: English
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By: Tan Books
The Story of Civilization Activity Book: Volume I – The Ancient World
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe Activity Book and companion Teacher’s Manual provide a complete review of everything read in The Story of Civilization: The Ancient World, along with creative activities to accompany each chapter,… [more below]
- Author: Tan Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1505105714
- Language: English
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By: Lower, Robert
Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’s Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’s West, 1813-1816
$23.95PaperbackRead moreThe fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters
Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who
- Author: Lower, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417184
- Language: English
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Anguish of the Jews (Revised and Updated): Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism
$27.95PaperbackAdd to cart“The story told by Edward Flannery…calls not only for reform but for profound and meaningful repentance.” –David W. Tracy “A major contribution to Jewish-Christian relations.” –Marc Tanenbaum “It … [more below]
- Series: Studies in Judaism and Christianity
- Author: Flannery, Edward H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0809143240
- Language: English







