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  • Yankee Stranger

    by Elswyth Thane ...
    LOVE AND WARCabot Murray first came to Williamsburg, Virginia, in the tense autumn of 1860. He was looked upon with suspicion because he was a Yankee. Then Cabot met redheaded Eden Day.Theirs was a wild, blind young love at first sight. Whispering in her hair, what did it matter that he was a Northerner and she from the South…But then came the Civil War. With the tide of battle Cabot returned as ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Divorce Colony

    How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

    by April White ...
    ****SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, "10 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022"****AMAZON, "BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH (Nonfiction)"****APPLE, "BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH"**From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms**For a woman traveling without her husband in the late ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860

    A leading historian’s absorbing narrative of America’s formative period, when voices of dissent and innovation challenged the nation.With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Wars of German Unification

    Series series Modern Wars
    The Wars of German Unification is the definitive account of the three of the most decisive conflicts in the history of modern Europe. In this new edition, Dennis Showalter offers a thoroughly updated look at the wars and their context that will be invaluable for those interested in the military, social and political history of the period.Showalter explores how the Schleswig-Holstein conflict of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A Secret Life

    The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland

    The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States—Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Vivre la Grande Armée. Être soldat au temps de Napoléon

    Series series Histoire
    En quinze ans, la Grande Armée napoléonienne, machine de guerre inégalée, remporta davantage de victoires que n'importe quelle autre armée avant ou après elle...En quinze ans, la Grande Armée napoléonienne, machine de guerre inégalée, remporta davantage de victoires que n'importe quelle autre armée avant ou après elle. Austerlitz, Iéna, la Moskowa, Leipzig ou Waterloo ont déjà fait couler beaucoup ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Between Man and Beast

    An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm

    by Monte Reel ...
    In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins—two of which were stuffed and brought on tour—and walked smack dab into the biggest scientific debate of the time: Darwin's theory of evolution. Quickly, Du Chaillu's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Afghanistan

    A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game

    Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game covers the military history of a region encompassing Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and West Asia, over some 2,500 years. This is the first comprehensive study in any language published on the millennia-long competition for domination and influence in one of the key regions of the Eurasian continent.Jalali’s work ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Cold War

    A World History

    The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows

    by Ruth Scurr ...
    Marking the 200th anniversary of his death, Napoleon is an unprecedented portrait of the emperor told through his engagement with the natural world.“How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity?” —Charlotte Brontë, “The Death of Napoleon”The most celebrated general in history, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) has for centuries attracted eminent male writers. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The China Mirage

    The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia

    by James Bradley ...
    From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's engagement in Asia. Now comes his most engrossing work yet. Beginning in the 1850s, Bradley introduces us to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The President Is a Sick Man

    Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth

    by Matthew Algeo ...
    An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president’s palate along with much of his upper jaw. When an enterprising reporter named E. J. Edwards ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bandido

    The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez

    Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Complicity

    How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery

    A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery“The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco ChronicleThe North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA “revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) romp through the intimate details of Victorian life, by an historian who has cheerfully endured them all.Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Seizing Freedom

    Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

    Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil WarHow did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger’s radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts of Emancipation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Moonlite

    The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers

    by Garry Linnell ...
    A gay bushranger with a love of poetry and guns.A grotesque hangman with a passion for flowers and gardening.A broken young man desperate for love and respect.These men – two of them lovers – are about to bring the era of Australia’s outlaws to a torrid and bloody climax.Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott was born into a privileged life in famine-wracked Ireland. His family lost ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • Military History Of Ulysses S. Grant From April 1861 To April 1865 Vol. III

    Series Book 3 - Military History Of Ulysses S. Grant From April 1861 To April 1865
    Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.Few men can have known General and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant as well as General Adam Badeau. As Grant’s military secretary during 1864-1865, he came to know and work closely with the future president; he wrote his classic ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clouds of Glory

    The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

    by Michael Korda ...
    New York Times Bestseller"Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." —Boston GlobeMichael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generationKorda paints a vivid... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Gun Barons

    The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them

    John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons.Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Napoleon and de Gaulle

    Heroes and History

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    An Australian Book Review Best Book of the YearOne of France’s most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history.Historians have taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But in democratizing ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Late Victorian Holocausts

    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).“ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching.” —The IndependentExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Populists and Patricians (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays in Modern German History

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, this collection of essays, from one of the leading historians in the field, is concerned with the central debates about German history from Bismarck to Hitler. David Blackbourn questions many previously held assumptions, whether about the natural conservatism of the German peasantry of the ‘feudalization’ of the middle classes, and offers an innovative approach to such ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee

    by James Mooney ...
    Originally published as two separate volumes by the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees has enduring significance for both Native Americans and non-Indian people. The book contains the full texts of James Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891), with an exclusive biographical introduction by ... Read more

    $1.99 USD