Historical Events
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Black Narratives of Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Patterson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0197678378
- Language: English
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Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World
$19.00 Read moreThe story of how one misunderstood disease became the global blueprint for stigma and ostracization
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World reveals leprosy as the world’s foundati- Author: Basciano, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1644454068
- Language: English
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Liberties Journal of Culture & Politics: Spring 2026
$18.95 Read moreLiberties features the world’s sharpest minds for readers who are determined to stay curious. The result is a collection of writing about today worth rereading tomorrow.
In the Spring 2026 issue, Micha… [more below]
- Author: Grunwald, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992201024
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
$17.32 Add to cartThe Great Jazz Age Novel
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The 1925 Original Version, with Classroom History
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The Great Gatsby is considered F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, exploring themes of decadence, idealism, social
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1936767848
- Language: English
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
$32.00 Add to cartA scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created the… [more below]
- Author: Smyth, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605640
- Language: English
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
$18.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bish
- Author: Hingston, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964154
- Language: English
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Maus Now: Selected Writing
$28.00 Read moreRichly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-on… [more below]
- Author: Chute, Hillary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0593315774
- Language: English
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
$18.95 Read moreLiberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time.
In this issue of Liberties: Katherine C. Epstein — Scholarship an
- Author: Wieseltier, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985430219
- Language: English
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Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy
$24.95 Read moreExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observer
In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured t- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1839767251
- Language: English
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Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
$18.00 Add to cart“Extraordinary and amazingly erudite. Hammad shows how art and especially literature can be much, much more revealing than political writing.” –Rashid Khalidi, New York Times bestselling author of Th
- Author: Hammad, Isabella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163920
- Language: English
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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
$29.00 Add to cartIn this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and… [more below]
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0226815455
- Language: English
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The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War
$18.00 Add to cartAn incisive demonstration of how Orwell’s body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.
Few English
- Author: Stansky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 150363549X
- Language: English
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Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
$197.92 Add to cartThis book is an account of how American realism in the Progressive Era contributed to debates about modernity. It uses the anthropological theories of Franz Boas, and Jacques Ranciere’s work on aesthe… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1474456723
- Language: English
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Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
$34.95 Add to cartTwo centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
- Author: Burstein, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177598
- Language: English
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A Collection of Essays
$18.99 Add to cartA clear-eyed, uncompromising collection of essays from the “conscience of his generation” and the author of 1984 (V. S. Pritchett). One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentie
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 21, 1970
- ISBN10: 0156186004
- Language: English
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The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
$18.00 Add to cartIn this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and… [more below]
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0226823954
- Language: English
