History

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the crossroads of ideology and nationalism, The Communist Party of Bulgaria: Origins...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt a pivotal moment in the twentieth century, when the revolutionary...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of Britain's most turbulent wartime years, Men and Power: 1917-1918 offers a gripping, insider account of the...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedAt the height of the Cold War, when the African continent was a critical theatre of ideological contest, Soviet scholars trained their analytical gaze...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of ideas, history, and human behaviour stands sociological theory — and Don Martindale's The Nature and Types...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn one of the most harrowing and intimate accounts of life under the Third Reich, Victor Klemperer —...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the crossroads of ideology and identity, Turkism and the Soviets: The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives presents a...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century European history command the reverence and complexity of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and founding father of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingThe high seas have never been more treacherous than in the world conjured by Alexei Novikov-Priboi in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn a work that permanently altered how the world thinks about commerce, culture, and connectivity, Thomas L. Friedman argues that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the late eighteenth century, a ragged fleet of British ships deposited a cast of convicts, marines, and administrators onto the sun-scorched shores of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of the radical Enlightenment stood William Godwin — philosopher, novelist, and anarchist thinker whose audacious ideas electrified late eighteenth-century Britain and whose...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markOne of the most intimate and revealing documents in the English language, The Diary of Samuel Pepys transports readers directly into the heart...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the volatile intersection of empire and revolution, The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State 1917–1930 chronicles one of the most turbulent and consequential...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the height of the Cold War, no betrayal shook the Western world quite like that of Klaus Fuchs — a brilliant German-born physicist who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.From the drawing rooms of colonial Melbourne to the grand estates of Europe, Riders of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to be French? Sanche de Gramont's The French: Portrait of a People is a sweeping, authoritative study of France and its...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Holocaust's darkest hour, Advocate for the Dead: The Story of Joel Brand chronicles one...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodIn the turbulent 1930s, a young American idealist named John Scott packed his bags and journeyed deep...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind every great institution lies a singular and extraordinary life — and few lives were as singular as that of Antonin Besse, the enigmatic...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsWhat happens when the greatest scientific revolutions in human history are driven not by cold logic, but by mysticism, obsession,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of European power, when great nations carved the globe into colonies and protectorates, a new world order was being written —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of America's most paranoid decade, Freedom and the Foundation: The Fund for the Republic in the Era of McCarthyism...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the heart of Victorian London, a scandal of breathtaking proportions threatened to bring down the establishment: a male brothel...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it mean to grow up in the shadow of a titan — to call...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBehind the single masterpiece that captivated a generation lies the tragically short life of Henri-Alban Fournier — known to the world as Alain-Fournier —...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the turbulent aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, a new and untested political figure emerged across Eastern...

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