Big Chief Elizabeth : The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America by Giles Milton
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A riveting historical mystery of Colonial America by the author of "Nathaniel's Nutmeg" In April, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans, "savages," had made her their weroanza-a word that meant "big chief." The news was received with great joy, both by the ...Show more
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Reading Level: very good
A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history that reveals in breathtaking depth how people fi ...Show more
Ten Days That Shook the World : The Illustrated edition. by John Reed
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt
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Secondhand. A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that ...Show more
The Great Mutiny by Christopher Hibbert
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'By far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet written' - Economist A beautifully written and meticulously researched narrative history of the great Indian uprising of 1857 by one of our most acclaimed living historians. First published in 1978 and re-issued with a handsome new cover for t ...Show more
The Lakeland Pedlar : Period Photographs and Poems by Irvine Hunt
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Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion ...Show more
The Perilous Crown : France Between Revolutions 1814-1848 by MUNRO PRICE
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Beginning with the return from exile of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans in 1814, along with his sister, Madame Adelaide, this book examines the remarkable period that saw two revolutions; the first, in 1830, put Louis-Philippe on the throne, the second in 1848 saw him exiled, destined to spend the last years o ...Show more
Don't Mention the War: The British and the Germans since 1890 by John Ramsden
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The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big ...Show more