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The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
PaperbackOriginal price $7.00 - Original price $7.00Original price $7.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /The first of these two highly influential documents refutes the concept of monarchy's divine right. The second argues for a broad acceptance of a...
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijin...
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The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness...
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian“[A] wonderfully en...
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Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Based upon extensive research, Russia's First Civil War is a masterful mix of social and military history, firmly placing the Time of Troubles in...
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Daily Life in Stuart England (Daily Life Through History Series)
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /England witnessed an overall rising standard of living in the seventeenth century. Still very much an agrarian society, approximately 80% of the ...
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and establ...
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of 2023 by Time and a Best Book of 2023 So Far by The New Yorker and the Financial Times New York Times bestselling...
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spa...
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Scottish Presbyterianism Re-Established: The Case of Stirling and Dunblane, 1687-1710
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A local history of Presbyterianism as the new governance of the Church of Scotland In 1690, the Church of Scotland rejected episcopal authority and...
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Politisches Scheitern
HardcoverOriginal price $68.99 - Original price $68.99Original price $68.99$88.99$88.99 - $88.99Current price $88.99| /Das politische Scheitern im Europa der Vormoderne ist bis heute von der Geschichtswissenschaft mit wenigen Ausnahmen nicht als eigenes Themenfeld b...
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Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England Volume 4
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In Handmaid to Divinity, Desiree Hellegers establishes seventeenth-century poetry as a critical resource for understanding the debates about natu...
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The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance in the 17th Century
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This book traces how Armenian migrants changed the demographic and cultural landscape of Istanbul and Western Anatolia in the course of the sevente...
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Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Incomplete Conquests, Stephanie Joy Mawson uncovers the limitations of Spanish empire in the Philippines, unearthing histories of resistance, fl...
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Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /In Incomplete Conquests, Stephanie Joy Mawson uncovers the limitations of Spanish empire in the Philippines, unearthing histories of resistance, fl...
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Slaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /China's last imperial dynasty governed a vast and culturally diverse territory, encompassing a wide range of local political systems and regional e...
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.“For ev...
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On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China During the Ming-Qing Transition
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in C...
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After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524-1730
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 left the capital city, Tenochtitlan, in ruins. Conquistador Hern n Cort s, following the city's surrender in...
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The Stations of the Cross in Colonial Mexico: The Via Crucis En Mexicano by Fray Agustin de Vetancurt and the Spread of a Devotion
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Walking the Stations of the Cross, the Christian faithful re-create the Passion, following the sorrowful path of Jesus Christ from condemnation to ...
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Breath of the Song: New and Selected Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A long-awaited compendium of selections from Green's previous books as well as many new poems, including her response to 9-11-01.Product DetailsISB...
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African Voices from the Inquisition, Vol. 1: The Trial of Crispina Peres of Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau (1646-1668)
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /This book contains some of the richest written material in existence for precolonial West Africa with unique insights into daily life in an Afro-At...
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden...
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Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientifi...
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