Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 books

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The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble...

Author: A.J. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780593136744
Format: Hardback
$54.99

"""The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in...  Read More >>

China Hands and Old Cantons: Britons and the Middle Kingdom

China Hands and Old Cantons: Britons and the Middle...

Author: John M. Carroll
ISBN: 9781538198834
Format: Paperback
$68.99

This fascinating history explores the wide range of views of Britons in late-imperial China as they chafed under...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849...

Author: Christopher Clark
ISBN: 9780141988313
Format: Paperback
$42.99

An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history There can be few more exciting...  Read More >>

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians...

Author: Wayne Kalayjian
ISBN: 9781639365869
Format: Hardback
$49.99

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse,...  Read More >>

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern...

Author: Kathryn Hughes
ISBN: 9780008365103
Format: Hardback
$52.99

'Remarkable' Literary Review 'Startlingly original' Amanda Foreman Some called...  Read More >>

Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns

Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of...

Author: William Lawrence
ISBN: 9781474540155
Format: Paperback
$55.44

The military memoirs of one who enlisted in the 40th Foot (later 1st Bn South Lancs) in 1804 and was eventually...  Read More >>

The Lion at Dawn Volume 75: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783-1797

The Lion at Dawn Volume 75: Forging British Strategy...

Author: Nathaniel Jarrett
ISBN: 9780806193922
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examining William Pitt the Younger’s foreign policy from 1783 to 1797, Nathaniel Jarrett considers a question that...  Read More >>

Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering

Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering,...

Author: Jörn Happel ,  Melanie Hussinger
ISBN: 9781032479378
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical and violent appropriation during...  Read More >>

A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons

A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons

Author: Christian Miller Prutsman
ISBN: 9789357964845
Format: Paperback
$41.18

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Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns

Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of...

Author: William Lawrence
ISBN: 9781474540162
Format: Hardback
$76.56

The military memoirs of one who enlisted in the 40th Foot (later 1st Bn South Lancs) in 1804 and was eventually...  Read More >>

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections, and Belongings

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections,...

Author: Dr Shimelis Bonsa Gulema ,  Professor Hewan Girma
ISBN: 9781648250880
Format: Hardback
$343.20

A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience...  Read More >>

Arming the World: American Gun-Makers in the Gilded Age

Arming the World: American Gun-Makers in the Gilded...

Author: Geoffrey S. Stewart
ISBN: 9781493078585
Format: Hardback
$67.99

Arming the world is the story of the development of American arms manufacturing and how ingenuity and inventiveness...  Read More >>

A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap

A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of...

Author: Frank L. Holt (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Houston)
ISBN: 9780197694046
Format: Hardback
$47.95

This book recounts the eventful life of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from infamous...  Read More >>

The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France

The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism...

Author: Janet Beizer
ISBN: 9781517915896
Format: Hardback
$270.00

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link...  Read More >>

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 >>

We Called Him Jeb: James Ewell Brown Stuart as He Was Seen by His Contemporaries

We Called Him Jeb: James Ewell Brown Stuart as He Was...

Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
ISBN: 9781955351423
Format: Paperback
$60.69

In We Called Him Jeb award-winning historian Lochlainn Seabrook provides a biographical series of recollections...  Read More >>

The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864 - April 1865

The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864 - April 1865...

Author: Noah Andre Trudeau
ISBN: 9781611217056
Format: Paperback
$75.00

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Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940

Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the...

Author: Ren Pepitone (New York University)
ISBN: 9781009456746
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Brotherhood of Barristers critically investigates masculinity, the creation of the gentlemanly professional, and...  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

Since its early days as a boomtown on the Florida frontier, Tampa has had a lively history rich with commerce, cuisine,...  Read More >>

We Called Him Jeb: James Ewell Brown Stuart as He Was Seen by His Contemporaries

We Called Him Jeb: James Ewell Brown Stuart as He Was...

Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
ISBN: 9781955351430
Format: Hardback
$105.57

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Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic, 1908–1931

Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic,...

Author: Abdullah Simsek
ISBN: 9783031569272
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish...  Read More >>

Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY

Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery...

Author: Ilyon Woo
ISBN: 9781804184851
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually...  Read More >>

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before...

Author: Johannes Wankhammer
ISBN: 9781501775802
Format: Paperback
$86.99

"""The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus...  Read More >>

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