American History

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA firsthand account of one of cinema's most extraordinary and ill-fated adventures, With Eisenstein in Hollywood chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the late 1960s, a single provocative thesis sent shockwaves through the boardrooms of Europe and the corridors...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA life spent wrestling with the great ideological currents of the twentieth century finds vivid and unflinching expression in Reading from Left to Right:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWilliam Faulkner, one of the most towering figures in American literature, here becomes the subject of an ambitious global conversation in Faulkner: International Perspectives,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the cotton fields of rural Arkansas in the autumn of 1952, seven-year-old Luke Chandler witnesses a world he is far too young to fully...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedAt the close of the eighteenth century, a revolutionary tide swept across the Atlantic world, overturning monarchies, redrawing borders, and forever altering the relationship...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of The Loss of El Dorado lies one of history's most seductive and devastating myths — the...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the glittering, jazz-soaked boulevards of 1920s Paris, few Americans lived with more style, generosity, and élan...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to discover — to shatter the boundaries of the known world and reimagine the very fabric of human understanding?...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the grand sweep of American literary history, few eras crackle with as much creative electricity as the mid-nineteenth century, and Van...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of diplomacy and global inequality, Third-World Diplomats in Dialogue with the First World presents...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly creased cover. No markings. Binding remains tight. A firsthand chronicle of political upheaval, ideological conflict, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew institutions have shaped the American public consciousness as profoundly as The New York Times, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the modern courtroom drama, the very concepts of felony and misdemeanor were forged in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, one of the most extraordinary moments in human history unfolded as India cast...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the world erupted into the most destructive conflict in human history, no corner of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Manchester, New Hampshire, stood the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company — once the largest cotton textile...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of two revolutionary republics, the tangled destinies of America and France collided in ways that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of personal grief and global unrest, Anne Morrow Lindbergh's The Flower and the Nettle presents an intimate and unfiltered window...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhen the shadow of fascism fell across Europe in the 1930s, a generation of brilliant composers, conductors, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor over seven decades, the relationship between Australia and the United States shaped the destiny of a nation...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the age of jet travel transformed the skies into a global highway, a small but determined band...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOn the foggy morning of July 28, 1945, a twin-engine B-25 Army bomber, lost in a blinding fog,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sun-scorched borderlands of Victoria and New South Wales, an ambitious visionary named William Benjamin...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingNestled in the quiet hills of Concord, New Hampshire, St. Paul's School stands as one of America's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn one of the most searing and courageous memoirs of the twentieth century, Lillian Hellman recounts her defiant...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the darkest crossroads of poverty and resilience, Weevils in the Flour presents a raw and unflinching oral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most sensational espionage cases of the twentieth century is laid bare in John Chabot Smith's...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodHollywood's golden age glittered with legends, secrets, and lives lived in dazzling contradictions — and John Carlyle witnessed it all...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn at the crossroads of two worlds, Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage is a sweeping...