Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution
By: Richard S. Grayson
4.20
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British m…
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1. 1848: Year of Revolution
By: Mike Rapport
3.72
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the c… read more
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2. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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3. 1688: The First Modern Revolution
By: Steven C.A. Pincus
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-re… read more
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4. Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia
By: None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated with twins in a tavern in Northampto… read more
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5. The Zimmermann Telegram
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, andThe Zimmermann Telegramcomprise … read more
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6. Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
By: Peter McPhee
4.43
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a… read more
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7. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
By: Stéphane Courtois , Andrzej Paczkowski , None
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in … read more
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8. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
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"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
9. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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10. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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11. İran'da Devlet, Din ve Devrim: 1796'dan Bugüne
By: Behrooz Moazami
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
İran’ın son iki yüz yıllık siyasi tarihini analitik bir çerçeve içinde anlatan bir kitap. 18. yüzyı… read more
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12. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
By: Ranajit Guha
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Foreword by James Scott This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present… read more
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13. History's Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World
By: Martin Malia
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This masterful comparative history traces the West’s revolutionary tradition and its culmination in… read more
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14. A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
By: Laura Gotkowitz
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
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15. Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution
By: Richard S. Grayson
4.20
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British m… read more
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