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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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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth ...
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to ...
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The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As ...
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent ...
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The Middle Ages in 50 Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from t...
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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Nearly two-thirds of the New Testament—including all of the letters of Paul, most of the book of Acts, and the book of Revelation—is set outside ...
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For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she'd emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical chara...
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The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple, 1119-1312
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The warrior knights of the cross The Knights Templar were one of the most famous Christian military orders of the medieval period. Officially en...
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to mea...
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The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This is the first serious study of Tamerlane, the great nomad conqueror who rose to power in 1370 on the ruins of the Mongol Empire and led his a...
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The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climat...
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Musli...
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of ...
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""Riches of the ""East""
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together...
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The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Michael Haag, bestselling author of The Templars: The History and the Myth, comes The Tragedy of the Templars, an exciting new look at the r...
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The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la c...
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Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading th...
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In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonial...
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Napoleon in Egypt / Edition 250
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between a Western power with imperial goals and an ancient regime of an African societ...
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Lonely Planet Fast Talk Italian 5
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Although you can get by in Italy without speaking the language, knowing just a few essential phrases can help you make friends, enjoy service wit...
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