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Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History by William J. Bernstein Publisher Comments William J. Bernstein's A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, an Economist and Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians like Jared Diamond and Bill Bryson, capable of distilling major trends... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Second Edition by Thomas R. Martin Publisher Comments In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker Publisher Comments Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean Mcmeekin Publisher Comments When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, there was no indication that world war would be the result. Even Ferdinands own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush by David Igler Publisher Comments The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (Verso World History) by Perry Anderson Publisher Comments Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden Publisher Comments One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason... (read more) Your price: $32.00 New - Hardcover
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The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine Publisher Comments From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages. Investigating the six most... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Revealing Antiquity #19: Spartacus by Aldo Schiavone Publisher Comments Spartacus (109?-71 bce), the slave who rebelled against Rome, has been a source of endless fascination, the subject of myth-making in his own time, and of movie-making in ours. Hard facts about the man have always yielded to romanticized tales and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization by James Lacey Publisher Comments “A compelling and provocative read . . . With a soldier’s eye, Jim Lacey re-creates the battle of Marathon in all its brutal simplicity.”—Barry Strauss, author of Masters of Command Marathon—one of history’s... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680-1715 by Paul Hazard Publisher Comments Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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A History of the Pacific Islands (Palgrave Essential Histories) by Steven Roger Fischer Publisher Comments This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning nearly 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch: Skull-Crushing True Stories of the Most Hardcore Duels, Showdowns, Fistfights, Last Stands, Suicide Charges, and Military Engagements of All Time by Ben Thompson Publisher Comments Unstoppable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands, and military engagements of all time! When only one can live, it's an Ultimate Deathmatch! This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad Publisher Comments In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left it. Since the '70s, the... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A History of the World in Three Castes by David Priestland Publisher Comments A bold new interpretation of modern history as a continual struggle among three prevailing power groups: merchant, soldier, and sage Noted Oxford historian David Priestland argues history is, at base, a conflict among three occupational groups, or... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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They Got It Wrong: History: All the Facts That Turned Out to Be Myths by Emma Marriott Publisher Comments They Got It Wrong: History exposes historical fallacies around the globe from the Roman Empire to World War II. There are countless twisted, sanitized tales that have become entrenched in popular belief but are really now more than warped reflections of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We've Failed to Learn by Bill Fawcett Publisher Comments An engrossing and fact-filled compendium of timeless lessons we keep forgetting—over and over and over . . . It is said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And so we have. Time and again humankind has overcome... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hoax: Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds by Edward Steers, Jr. Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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