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Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Prince Albert Victor, known to his family as 'Eddy', was the eldest child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. This is the story of Prince Eddy'...
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Samurai: A Concise History
HardcoverOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of th...
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A remarkable account of Britain's last stand in Kenya. This is imperial history at its very best."—John Hope Franklin In "a gripping narrative t...
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Insight Guides City Guide Barcelona (Travel Guide with Free eBook)
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Insight Guides City Guide BarcelonaTravel made easy. Ask local experts.Explore one of the most exciting cities in the world with this inspiration...
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The Discovery of Guiana
PaperbackOriginal price $6.35 - Original price $6.35Original price $6.35$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /The Discovery of Guiana is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to "Guiana", the Venezuelan regio...
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War and State Building in Medieval Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged i...
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Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race
HardcoverOriginal price $38.95Original price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land–and the sinister consequencesIt was an SS mission led by two complex individuals–one who was...
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Gallipoli
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this def...
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Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading Spaniards had not allied themselves with the indigenous population....
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn & Other Correspondence & Documents Concerning the King and His Wives
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The king and his wives-letters and documents History is full of notable figures, but far fewer in number are those who have become iconic. An ind...
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review ...
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated...
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Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /During the decades of empire (1870–1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. He...
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Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel ...
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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpos...
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodo...
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The Honourable Company
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into the grandest society of merchants in the univ...
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The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukr...
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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between B...
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The Discovery And Conquest Of Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Bernal DÃ- del Castillo(1495-1584) served under CortÃ(c)through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative, one of only four extant firsthand...
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The Crusades: An Epitome
PaperbackOriginal price $12.50 - Original price $12.50Original price $12.50$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This sweeping yet succinct new survey introduces readers to the history of the crusades from the eleventh to the twenty-first century. By synthes...
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of littl...
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Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the per...
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A Fez Of The Heart: Travels around Turkey in Search of a Hat
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents’ attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the qui...
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