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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Best Price: $8.99 Excellent!
At time, Mr. James annoyed me to no end. But what kept me reading was he had the... | The Princes in the Tower Best Price: $5.49 It sure won't answer the centuries old question of the demise of Edward IV's boys, but surely... | Inventing Human Rights: A History Best Price: $8.68 A very interesting topic, a very important issue, but defined through the eyes of a Cultural... | The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850 (The Norton History of Modern Europe) Best Price: $21.30 I'm currently trying to read through the "Norton History of Modern Europe" series, and... | The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 Best Price: $7.75 Neither textbook nor narrative, Hobsbawm's classic is an interpretive essay whose many insights,... |
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down Best Price: $5.34 Captains such as Blackbeard and Charles Vane created the 'Flying Gang' and established the... | Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America Best Price: $15.00 Tell me you have a story about relations between Colonial Americans and Native Americans, and... | Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age Best Price: $12.94 Marcus Rediker has written what is easily the most fascinating account of piracy to date.... | Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future Best Price: $7.89 Postman makes an extremely compelling argument that our best source for assistance for moral and... | Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 Best Price: $12.98 I highly recommend Crucible of War to all history readers. The author Fred Anderson really does... |
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Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader Best Price: $36.99 Eze hopes to spur, among researchers, teachers, and students, a "critical engagement in the... | The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (New Approaches to European History) Best Price: $24.90 James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of "the public" in... | Shoes and Slippers: From Snowshill, One of the World's Leading Collections of Costume and Accessories of the 18th and 19th Centuries Best Price: $11.57 Buy this. Gorgeous pictures, charming and scholarly text, what more can a designer, clothes... | Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment Best Price: $0.87 Gabrielle ?milie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Ch?telet wrote her last lover, the... | Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess Best Price: $12.99 Fantastic, brilliantly written, this was so easy to read and i just couldn't put the book down.... |
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The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey Best Price: $11.49 In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave... | The Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Best Price: $11.50 The earthquake that hit Lisbon on 1 November 1755 shook up a lot more than its buildings and... | Europe 1870-1991 (Flagship History Ser) Best Price: $26.58 | Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship Best Price: $11.25 The riveting story of the slave ship Whydah, captured by pirates and later sunk in a fierce... | Europe, 1648-1815: From the Old Regime to the Age of Revolution Best Price: $30.15 The late Professor Winks and Professor Kaiser have produced a gem of a book for the student... |
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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer Best Price: $2.19 This was another of those works that I found difficult to put down once I began reading the... | A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 (New Oxford History of England) Best Price: $36.00 This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the... | Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light Best Price: $6.50 INCREDIBLE BOOK!! I strongly recommend it for students of comparative history. The US War of... | Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection Best Price: $11.79 The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave... | |