Category - History
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My Sixty Years on the Plains
PaperbackOriginal price $8.49 - Original price $8.49Original price $8.49$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /My Sixty Years on the Plains contains the adventures of "Bill" Hamilton, an American frontiersman who lived during the 19th century. Product Deta...
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In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through ...
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Narrative Of My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $12.77 - Original price $12.77Original price $12.77$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Narrative Of My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature....
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Welsh Traditions and Superstitions - A Historical Article on the Mythology of Wales
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A classic volume of ancient Welsh myths and folk tales. First published in 1893, this collection of traditional Welsh folklore and mythology illu...
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Satanism and Witchcraft: The Classic Study of Medieval Superstition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Long out of print, Jules Michelet's classic study of medieval superstition has been reprinted in this edition to bring the general public's atten...
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The Invention of Tradition / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were ...
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The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780195029901 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 09-17-1981 Pages: 320 Product Dime...
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Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Connections between what people eat and who they are—between cuisine and identity—reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian i...
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Foxfire 12: War Stories, Cherokee Traditions, Summer Camps, Square Dancing, Crafts, and More Affairs of Plain Living
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /For more than thirty years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative-sel...
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The Chrysanthemum And The Sword
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork explores the political, religious, and economic life of ...
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Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The Renaissance Faire—a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring—receives its first sustained historical ...
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. Tho...
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Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In this sweeping history of food and eating in modern America, Harvey Levenstein explores the social, economic, and political factors that have s...
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Tea: The Drink That Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book is a fascinating history of tea and the spreading of tea throughout the world. Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea, is grown in tea ...
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At the Table: Food and Family around the World
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /What's for dinner? Not just in America, but around the world? And how is it cooked, what's the historical significance of that food, how is it se...
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The Little Book of Floriography: The Secret Language of Flowers
HardcoverOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal. Floriography - the language of flowers - is the ancient art of encoding hid...
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Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This in-depth historical analysis highlights the enormous contributions of Chinese Americans to the professions, politics, and popular culture of A...
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The War on the West
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate...
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Worn: A People's History of Clothing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of--an unparalleled deep-dive i...
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, wher...
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Platicas: Conversations About and Among Friends and Neighbors in Cuba, New Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The community of Cuba, New Mexico, its institutions and economy are changing rapidly and radically. Our town is losing its former identity and its ...
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History of the Indian tribes of North America [Single-Volume Facsimile Edition]: with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs
HardcoverOriginal price $129.00Original price $129.00 - Original price $129.00Original price $129.00Current price $127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /This is the only single-volume hardcover edition of this classic work, originally published in three volumes from 1836 to 1844. More than 80 full-c...
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A Voice from the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A Voice from the Congo is British adventurer Herbert Ward's equally sensational follow-up to his earlier Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. It is...
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Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
HardcoverOriginal price $74.00Original price $74.00 - Original price $74.00Original price $74.00Current price $68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social ...
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