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Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator'Mary Beard is the best in the business' Dan Snow'Excellent' Guardian'Enthralling' Sunday TimesBritain's most famous classicist asks: what are civilisations?Central to this huge question are...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade-and its role in the making of AmericaSlave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery....
Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Services
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The Loveliest Home That Ever Was: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of...
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His...
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasures being unloaded at Seville's docks in 1537, Pedro de Cieza de Leun decided to join the Spanish effort in the New World,...
Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized
Looking for a precedent that eased the way for "civilized" people to embrace fascism in the twentieth-century, Hannah Arendt found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule,...
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's
In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New...
Panama and What it Means
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Author: John Foster FraserBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1914, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book provides a comprehensive account of Panama, exploring its history, culture, and...
The Girl from Donegal
I LOVED The Girl from Donegal. The storylines are so captivating and the sense of the secret that travels around the world is magical . . . unputdownable' CATHY KELLY...
The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of...
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream
'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, Vol. 3
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Author: Douglas Southall FreemanBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1972]Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis volume of 'Lee's Lieutenants' continues the detailed examination of General Robert E. Lee's...
The Emergence of Lincoln, volume 2: Prologue to Civil War, 1859-1861
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Author: Allan NevinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Scribner, [1975]Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book is the second volume of a comprehensive biography of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the events...
Ordeal of the Union: A House Dividing 1852-1857 (Vol. II)
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Author: Allan NevinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Scribners, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book is the second volume of Allan Nevins' comprehensive history of the American Civil War era....
The War For The Union: Volume II - War Becomes Revolution
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Author: Allan NevinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is the second volume in Allan Nevins' comprehensive history of the American...
Jubal Early's Raid on Washington 1864
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Author: B. F. CoolingBinding: HardbackPublished: Nautical and Aviation Publishing, 1989, FIRST EDITION!Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book is a compelling account of Jubal Early's...
They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lt. General T. J. Jackson
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Author: Burke DavisBinding: HardbackPublished: Fairfax Press, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis biography explores the life of Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson, one of the most famous Confederate generals during...
Forlorn Hope of Freedom: The Liberty Party in the Old Northwest, 1838-1848
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Author: Vernon L. VolpeBinding: HardbackPublished: Kent State University Press, 1990Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the history and impact of the Liberty Party in...
Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General
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Author: Gary W. GallagherBinding: HardbackPublished: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985, FIRST EDITION!Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the life and military career...
The War in Southwest Virginia 1861-65 SIGNED
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Author: Gary C WalkerBinding: HardbackPublished: A&W Enterprise, 1985, Sixth Edition RevisedCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book provides a detailed account of the Civil War...
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
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The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of
When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard...
True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America
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The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America
A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a...
The Fountain & the Mountain: The University of Washington Campus 1895-1995
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Author: Norman J. JohnstonBinding: HardbackPublished: Documentary Book Publishers, 1995Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive history of the University of Washington from 1895 to...
The New Authoritarianism in Latin America
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Author: David CollierBinding: SoftbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1979Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWhile one of the most important attempts to explain the rise of authoritarian regimes...
For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England
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Lee's Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram
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North with Lee and Jackson: Lost Story of Gettysburg
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American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Volume II (since 1865) (Penguin Academics Series)
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Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of
The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller
'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory'...
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the [...]
The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
Two Thousand Miles on Horseback: Santa Fe and Back
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Author: James F. MelineBinding: HardbackPublished: Horn and Wallace, 1966Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles a summer tour through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico...
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
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Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962
This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the...
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey [...]
A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...
High Seas and Yankee Gunboats: A Blockade-running Adventure from the Diary of James Dickson
Author: Roger S. Durham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 High Seas and Yankee Gunboats tells of the harrowing adventures of two men from Savannah, Georgia, who sought to breach...
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration
George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of...