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  • James Madison

    America's First Politician

    by Jay Cost ...
    **An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it **How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

    A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Accidental City

    Improvising New Orleans

    This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and the ambitious, entrepreneurial merchants and settlers from four continents who risked their lives to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Pandemic in Potosí

    Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis

    by Kris Lane ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000 people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions of blood from the nose and mouth. Most died within days. The great Andean pandemic of 1717–22 was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Duchess

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURELady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The French Revolution: A History in Documents

    Edited by Dr Micah Alpaugh ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Sourcebooks
    The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis to create a moment of new political possibilities unlike any the world had previously seen. In so ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Under the Black Flag

    The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

    “This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian“[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's JournalThis rollicking account of the golden age of piracy is packed with vivid history and high seas adventure. David Cordingly, an acclaimed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Haitian Revolution

    Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality. ... Read more

    $9.99 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

  • Georgiana

    Duchess of Devonshire

    The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time was its undisputed leader.Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • The Man in the Iron Mask

    The True Story of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner

    A vivid, dramatic, and eye-opening historical narrative, The Man in the Iron Mask reveals the story behind the most enduring mystery of Louis XIV’s reign.The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and despotic jailor, dark and sinister dungeons— and a secret prisoner. It is easy for forget that this ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Pursuit of Happiness

    How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

    by Jeffrey Rosen ...
    A fascinating examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Secret Cures of Slaves

    People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

    In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in the Atlantic World, exploring the circulation of people, disease, plants, and knowledge between Europe ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    “[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street JournalThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Crucible of War

    The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

    by Fred Anderson ...
    In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sorcery or Science?

    Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

    Series series Magic in History
    Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), decisively influenced the development of Sufi Muslim thought in West Africa.Known as the Kunta scholars, Mukhtār al-Kuntī and Muḥammad al-Kuntī were ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company

    A Story of George Washington's Times

    From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp on the Virginia-North Carolina border and create fabulous wealth for himself and other shareholders, including George Washington.Royster scrupulously ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Uniforms of Russian army of Elizabeth of Russia Vol. 1

    Under the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna from 1741 to 1761 and Peter III from 1762

    Series Book 7 - Soldiers, Weapons & Uniforms 700
    Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the years from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding.**New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • En Garde!

    Swashbuckling Skirmish Wargames Rules

    Series Book 12 - Osprey Wargames
    En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the models that they control will fight – offensively, defensively, or by applying special skills and abilities. En Garde! covers the conflicts of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Witch in the Western Imagination

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    Series series Richard Lectures
    In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics and instead considers the witch as a symbolic and malleable figure through a broad sweep of topics and time ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Princes in the Tower

    by Alison Weir ...
    "Comprehensive and insightful, THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER offers a unique perspective on a profound mystery." Faye KellermanDespite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill the young princes, as is ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Great Upheaval

    America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800

    by Jay Winik ...
    In The Great Upheaval, New York Times bestselling author Jay Winik reveals the events of the historic decade that birthed the modern world.It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God's Generals: The Revivalists

    The Revivalists

    Series Book 3 - God's General
    Roberts Liardon recaptures God's glory with these compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful preachers ever to ignite the fires of revival. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD