Genre
History.
From the wisdom of The Souls of Black Folk to the intrigue of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, our History collection spans continents and centuries. Each book is a carefully preserved thread in the rich tapestry of human experience, ready to be explored. Step into the past with dot books, and discover how yesterday’s voices continue to shape today.
History
Famous Affinities of History
A collection of the great love stories of history, retelling the famous romances and attachments of kings, queens, and celebrated figures.
$8.00
Children
Folklore as an Historical Science
A pioneering argument that folklore, the tales, customs, and beliefs of a people, can be read as genuine historical evidence.
$7.50
Biography & Memoir
A Daughter of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland's Pulitzer-winning memoir of prairie life, family, and hard-won artistic ambition, a warm, clear-eyed portrait of the American Midwest and the people who shaped it.
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$8.00
Art & Design
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.
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$8.00
Essays
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
A landmark anthology of speeches and orations by Black Americans, gathering the great voices of abolition, uplift, and civil rights in a testament to African American eloquence and
$7.00
Biography & Memoir
Richard the Lion Heart
A retelling of the crusading English king, his wars in the Holy Land and his legend of chivalry, aimed at readers who love medieval history and heroic biography.
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$8.00
History
Pagan and Christian Rome
A vivid archaeological journey through the Eternal City as it passed from pagan antiquity to Christianity, tracing the temples, tombs, and monuments where two worlds met and merged
$8.00
Crime
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Jo
The trial record of the notorious 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, in which Lord Cochrane and others stood accused of spreading false news to manipulate the markets: a landmark case of f
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History
The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremon
William Hone's beloved Every-Day Book, an almanac of British customs, festivals, folklore and popular amusements arranged through the calendar year, this first volume brimming with
$8.00
Adventure
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
The firsthand record of one of history's great expeditions, as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cross the North American continent, charting rivers, peoples, wildlife and landsca
$7.50
History
A Class-Book of New Testament History
A Victorian teaching text by G.
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$8.00
History
The Johnstown Horror!!!
A vivid contemporary account of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, when a failed dam sent a wall of water through a Pennsylvania valley and killed thousands.
$8.00
History
Fishing from the Earliest Times
A scholarly and affectionate history of angling in the ancient world, tracing how the peoples of antiquity fished the rivers and seas.
$8.00
History
On War
On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.
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Biography & Memoir
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
Sir Walter Scott's private journal, printed from the manuscript at Abbotsford, is one of the great diaries in English, candid, courageous and moving as the celebrated novelist face
$8.50
Essays
Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures delivered at Columbia University
Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner
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$7.00
History
A History of Roman Classical Literature
A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.
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$8.00
History
From Chaucer to Tennyson
A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.
$8.00
History
Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.
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$8.00
Biography & Memoir
The Life of King Edward VII
A biography of Edward VII, the long-waiting heir who became king and gave his name to an age.
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Biography & Memoir
Fifty Years In The Northwest
William H.
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$9.00
History
The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
A history of the Choctaw Freedmen, formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation, and the founding of Oak Hill Industrial Academy to educate their children.
$9.00
History
The Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner's landmark essays advancing the frontier thesis, arguing that the moving edge of settlement shaped American democracy and character.
$9.00
Children
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.
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History
Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites
Alexander van Millingen's classic survey walks the great land walls of Constantinople stone by stone, tracing the defences that guarded the Byzantine capital for a thousand years a
$9.00
History
The Story of Paris
A narrative history of Paris, tracing the city's growth from its origins through the centuries of its splendour.
$9.00
History
The Pantropheon
A grand nineteenth-century history of food and its preparation in the ancient world, roaming across the tables of Greece, Rome, and beyond.
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
The Bābur-nāma in English
The candid memoirs of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire, in English translation.
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$9.00
History
The history of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward III
A narrative history of medieval England spanning the reigns from Henry III to Edward III, a formative age of parliaments, wars and the making of the nation's institutions.
$9.00
History
History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4): Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government
The opening volume of the official British history of the South African War of 1899 to 1902, compiled by government direction: the origins, opening moves, and early campaigns of th
$9.00
Art & Design
A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Clara Erskine Clement Waters's accessible survey of the great arts — painting, sculpture and architecture — written to guide beginners through the story of human creativity.
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History
An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church
Henry Charles Lea's landmark history of clerical celibacy, tracing the long and contested development of the Church's discipline of the unmarried priesthood.
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History
Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant; Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
John Foxe's famous Book of Martyrs recounts the lives, sufferings and deaths of Christian martyrs, above all the Protestants of the Reformation, a work that shaped English religiou
$9.00
History
The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic
A meticulous study of how the Roman Republic actually voted.
$9.00
Adventure
Anabasis
Xenophon’s classic march narrative follows a stranded Greek army through retreat, leadership crisis, and survival.
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History
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
The second volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan continues his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their ruling houses, chivalry and antiquities
$9.00
Business
A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day
A classic survey of economic thought, tracing the development of theory from the Physiocrats through the great schools of political economy to the modern era.
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
A Boer general's firsthand account of the South African War, written by a commander who fought the British in the field and lived to set the campaign down in his own plain, unflinc
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History
The Sovereignty of the Sea
A historical study of the long contest over control of the seas, tracing the claims, disputes, and legal battles by which nations asserted dominion over the waters around their coa
$9.00
History
A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day
Douglas Hyde's landmark survey of Irish literature from ancient bardic tradition to modern times.
$9.00
Art & Design
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
An illustrated tour of the great royal palaces and gardens of France, from Versailles and Fontainebleau to the châteaux of the Loire.
$9.00
Crime
Celebrated Crimes
A vivid collection of true and legendary crimes from European history, retold with a novelist's flair for drama and character.
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History
Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus's monumental history of the Jewish people, from the creation of the world through the biblical narrative to the eve of revolt against Rome.
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$9.00
Art & Design
The Handbook to English Heraldry
A clear, systematic guide to the language and design of English coats of arms.
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$9.00
History
Shakespearean Playhouses
A pioneering history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres, reconstructing the playhouses where Shakespeare's dramas first came alive, from the Globe to the Fortune and beyond.
$9.00
History
Poine
A short literary work whose title carries the old Greek weight of penalty and requital.
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Biography & Memoir
A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography
A biographical reference gathering the lives of notable Canadians.
$9.00
History
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation': From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to t
William Bradford's own history of the Plymouth Colony, printed from his original manuscript, is the foundational eyewitness chronicle of the Pilgrims, their voyage, their first har
$9.00