Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World (Volume 27) (California World History Library)
By: Kris Lane
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. Th…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
By: Kathryn Burns
3.93
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
By: Martin Meredith
4.00
Format: 570 pages, Hardcover
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and Af… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
4. Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700
By: Richard von Glahn
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the d… read more
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- history
5. On Friendship
By: Alexander Nehamas
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Friends are a constant feature of our lives, yet friendship itself is difficult to define. Even Mic… read more
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- nonfiction
6. Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
By: James H. Sweet
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emph… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Breaking the Maya Code
By: Michael D. Coe
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Among the more exciting advances to be described are: the discovery of the specific Maya language a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. The Last Days of the Incas
By: Kim MacQuarrie
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of t… read more
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- historical
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10. Journey Without Maps
By: Paul Theroux , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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- school
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
12. The Soccer War
By: Ryszard Kapuściński , William Brand
4.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer Waris a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth… read more
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13. Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, a… read more
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14. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
By: Tony Horwitz
4.24
Format: 376 pages,
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of Ameri… read more
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15. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
16. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
By: Niall Ferguson
3.93
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, b… read more
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"The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism."-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"In the end, the British sacrificed her Empire to stop the Germans, Japanese and Italians from keeping theirs. Did not that sacrifice alone expunge all the Empire's other sins?"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close t…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
"Sir Richard Turnbull, the penultimate Governor of Aden, once told Labour politician Denis Healey that 'when the British Empire finally sank beneath the waves of history, it would leave behind it only…"-Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
17. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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18. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
By: Machado de Assis
4.25
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A publicação de 'Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas' não só inaugura o Realismo no Brasil, como inicia… read more
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"Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Diz que o homem tem “uma grande vantagem sobre o resto do universo: sabe que morre, ao passo que o universo ignora-o absolutamente"-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"هر دوره زندگی چاپ جدیدی است که چاپ قبلی را تصحیح میکند و خودش هم در چاپ بعدی تصحیح میشود، تا برسد به چاپ متن نهایی که ناشر به کرم ها تقدیم میکندش."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
19. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
By: Charles F. Walker
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
The largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire--a conflict greater in territory an… read more
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20. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
By: Timothy Brook
3.20
Format: 160 pages,
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21. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
22. Civilizations
By: Laurent Binet
3.67
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Vers l’an mille : la fille d’Erik le Rouge met cap au sud.1492 : Colomb ne découvre pas l’Amériqu… read more
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23. The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
By: Adam Goodheart
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated h… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
By: Henry Hemming
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. Venus in Two Acts
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.78
Format: 14 pages, ebook
This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestle… read more
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26. Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
By: Clive Oppenheimer
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Meeting with volcanoes around the world, a volcanologist interprets their messages for humankind. … read more
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- history
27. Potosi: The Silver City That Changed the World (Volume 27) (California World History Library)
By: Kris Lane
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. Th… read more
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- history
- school
- historical
- bolivia
- nonfiction
28. Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru
By: Kathryn Burns
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them cent… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. Alabi's World
By: Richard Price
3.21
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship from the Caribbean Studies A… read more
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30. Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain
By: Martin Austin Nesvig
3.75
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Honorable Mention, Bandelier/Lavrin Book Award in Colonial Latin America, Rocky Mountain Council on… read more
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31. A Global History of Money
By: Akinobu Kuroda
4.00
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
Looking from the 11th century to the 20th century, Kuroda explores how money was used and how curre… read more
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