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Race to the Potomac: Lee and Meade After Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863

Race to the Potomac: Lee and Meade After Gettysburg,...

Author: Bradley Gottfried ,  Linda Gottfried
ISBN: 9781611217025
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Even before the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee was preparing for the arduous task of getting his...  Read More >>

The Campbells, 1250-1513

The Campbells, 1250-1513

Author: Stephen Boardman
ISBN: 9780859767248
Format: Paperback
$44.99

If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. This book...  Read More >>

Columba: Pilgrim, Priest & Patron Saint

Columba: Pilgrim, Priest & Patron Saint

Author: Tim Clarkson
ISBN: 9780859767231
Format: Paperback
$34.99

St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. Drawing on contemporary...  Read More >>

The Little Book of Limerick

The Little Book of Limerick

Author: Sharon Slater
ISBN: 9781803996851
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Limerick.  Read More >>

Railways and Industry on the Vale of Neath: Pontypool Road-Crumlin Viaduct-Hengoed-Nelson and Llancaiach-Treharris, Taff Vale Extension

Railways and Industry on the Vale of Neath: Pontypool...

Author: John Hodge
ISBN: 9781399031387
Format: Hardback
$105.00

This book covers the Vale of Neath line, the eastern portion of which was originally the Taff Vale Extension line,...  Read More >>

Oxford

Oxford

Author: Matthew Rice
ISBN: 9780711295711
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Scottish Folk Tales of Coast and Sea

Scottish Folk Tales of Coast and Sea

Author: Tom Muir
ISBN: 9781803992051
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A collection of Scottish coastal folk tales. 'The sea is in our blood and our stories.'  Read More >>

From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa

From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa

Author: Andrew T. Huse
ISBN: 9780813080727
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Adventures in the Wilderness: Or, Camp Life in the Adirondacks

Adventures in the Wilderness: Or, Camp Life in the Adirondacks...

Author: W. H.H. Murray ,  Laura Rice, Laura Rice
ISBN: 9781493081172
Format: Paperback
$46.99

With a Foreword by Laura Rice, the Chief Curator of the Adirondack Experience Museum, this edition of Adventures...  Read More >>

Through the Yukon Gold Diggings: A Narrative of Personal Travel

Through the Yukon Gold Diggings: A Narrative of Personal...

Author: Josiah Edward Spurr
ISBN: 9789357939072
Format: Paperback
$47.36

Through the Yukon Gold Diggings: A Narrative of Personal Travel, a classical book, has been considered important...  Read More >>

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

Author: E L Kolb
ISBN: 9789357939065
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

The Smiling Hill-Top, and Other California Sketches

The Smiling Hill-Top, and Other California Sketches...

Author: Julia M Sloane
ISBN: 9789357958547
Format: Paperback
$42.42

The Smiling Hill-Top, and Other California Sketches, a classical book, has been considered important throughout...  Read More >>

Social life in old New Orleans: Being recollections of my girlhood

Social life in old New Orleans: Being recollections...

Author: Eliza Ripley
ISBN: 9789357963657
Format: Paperback
$52.11

Social life in old New Orleans: Being recollections of my girlhood, a classical book, has been considered important...  Read More >>

Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War

Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War

Author: Thomas Nelson Page
ISBN: 9789357965736
Format: Paperback
$40.31

THIS 52 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Old South Essays Social and Political, by Thomas Nelson Page....  Read More >>

Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008

Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers...

Author: Jesse Chanin
ISBN: 9781469678221
Format: Paperback
$56.10

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When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes

When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes...

Author: Benjamin G. Rader
ISBN: 9780252087844
Format: Paperback
$47.99

People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and...  Read More >>

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century...

Author: Sergio M. González
ISBN: 9780252087943
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Hospitality practices grounded in religious belief have long exercised a profound influence on Wisconsin’s Latino...  Read More >>

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball...

Author: Chris Holaday
ISBN: 9781469678849
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008

Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers...

Author: Jesse Chanin
ISBN: 9781469678214
Format: Hardback
$168.30

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Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478030164
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City...

Author: Adam J. Criblez
ISBN: 9781501773938
Format: Hardback
$84.35

"""During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the circumstances facing the New York Knicks of the National Basketball...  Read More >>

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478025917
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and Images

Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape...

Author: Richard Scheuerman ,  John Clement
ISBN: 9781638640288
Format: Hardback
$93.50

Enhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty...  Read More >>

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People...

Author: Laura J. Feller
ISBN: 9780806193892
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Spanning a century of fraught history, this volume describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia...  Read More >>

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