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Akhenaten
Dominic Montserrat
Paperback , Dec '02
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$77.99
$77.21
Agrippina
Anthony A. Barrett
Paperback , Aug '99
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$79.99
$79.19
Lenin
Beryl Williams
Paperback , Aug '00
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$112.00
$110.88
Diocletian and the Roman Recovery
Stephen Williams
Paperback , Dec '96
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$96.99
$96.02
Brick by Brick: Building...
Karen Sherman
Paperback , Apr '24
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$40.99
$39.35
Meriwether Lewis
Thomas C. Danisi
Paperback , Apr '24
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$50.99
$48.95
Titanic Survivor
Violet Jessop
Paperback , Apr '12
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$36.99
$35.51
Commanding Old Ironsides:...
William M. Fowler Jr.
Paperback , May '24
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$50.99
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The Old West's Infamous Train...
W.C. Jameson
Paperback , Sep '23
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Marie Antoinette's World:...
Will Bashor
Paperback , Apr '24
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$40.99
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Go West Mr. President: Theodore...
Michael F. Blake
Paperback , Oct '23
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$47.99
$46.07
A Lamp for the Dark World:...
Parvati Sharma
Hardback , May '23
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$63.99
$61.43
Empire: The Pioneer Legacy...
Jefferson Glass
Paperback , Oct '23
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$47.99
$46.07
Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash:...
Rusty Williams
Paperback , Oct '23
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$51.99
$49.91
Tigers in the Mud: The Combat...
Otto Carius
Paperback , Jan '20
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$86.99
$83.51
A View from Abroad: The Story...
Jeanne E. Abrams
Paperback , Feb '24
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$45.99
$44.15
Hitler's Priestess
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Paperback , Oct '00
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$62.99
$60.47
A Political Family: The Kuczynskis,...
John Green
Hardback , Mar '17
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$252.00
$249.48
A Political Biography of Richard Steele
Charles A Knight
Hardback , Sep '09
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$305.00
$301.95
A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
David Oakleaf
Hardback , May '08
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$294.00
$291.06
Between Empire and Revolution
Allison Drew
Hardback , Jan '07
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$294.00
$291.06
Claudius
Barbara Levick
Paperback , Jun '20
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$83.99
$83.15
The Radical Soldier's Tale
Carolyn Steedman
Hardback , Jun '16
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$305.00
$301.95
Gladstone
Michael Partridge
Hardback , Apr '03
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$210.00
$207.90
For God, Mammon, And Country
Shireen Mahdavi
Paperback , Dec '00
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$103.00
$101.97
Criminology on Trump
Gregg Barak
Hardback , May '22
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$284.00
$281.16
The Reforms of Peter the Great
Evgenii V. Anisimov
Paperback , May '93
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$114.00
$112.86
Clara Collet, 1860-1948
Deborah Mcdonald
Paperback , Feb '04
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$41.99
$41.57
Psychotherapy After Kohut
Ronald R. Lee
Paperback , Jun '15
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$94.99
$94.04
A Country in the Mind
John L. Thomas
Paperback , Feb '02
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$52.99
$52.46
Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence
Reinhard R. Doerries
Paperback , May '07
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$110.00
$108.90
The Life of George Ranken Askwith, 1861-1942
Alison Heath
Hardback , Feb '13
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$189.00
$187.11
The Politics of Penal Reform
Anne Logan
Hardback , Oct '17
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$273.00
$270.27
Between Empire and Revolution
Allison Drew
Paperback , Jan '16
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$98.99
$98.00
Two-Way Knowledge Transfer...
Ian Gow
Hardback , Nov '22
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$263.00
$260.37
Malthus and His Work
James Bonar
Paperback , May '14
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$103.00
$101.97
The Reforms of Peter the Great
Evgenii V. Anisimov
Hardback , May '93
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$347.00
$343.53
Transoceanic Radical: William Duane
Nigel Little
Paperback , Jan '16
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$98.99
$98.00
Lloyd George
Martin Pugh
Hardback , Apr '15
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$273.00
$270.27
China in My Life
C.Martin Wilbur
Hardback , Apr '96
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$179.00
$177.21
Acid Rain and the Rise of...
Peter Reed
Hardback , Mar '14
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$294.00
$291.06
Hrant Dink
Tuba Candar
Paperback , Dec '15
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$90.99
$90.08
Saigo Takamori - The Man Behind the Myth
Charles L. Yates
Paperback , Feb '16
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$90.99
$90.08
Chicago’s Modern Mayors:...
Dick Simpson
Paperback , Feb '24
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$56.99
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A Life of Sir John Eldon Gorst
Archie Hunter
Hardback , Sep '01
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$273.00
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Bismarck
Edgar Feuchtwanger
Paperback , Apr '14
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$39.99
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Against The Age
Peter Faulkner
Hardback , Jun '11
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$294.00
$291.06
Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy
Sophie Scott-Brown
Paperback , Jul '22
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$77.99
$77.21
Saigo Takamori
Charles L. Yates
Hardback , Jan '95
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$368.00
$331.20
Julia Lathrop
Miriam Cohen
Paperback , Mar '17
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$77.99
$77.21
The Art of the Possible
Kevern J. Verney
Hardback , Oct '01
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$378.00
$374.22
Anne Komnene and Her Times
Thalia Gouma-Peterson
Paperback , May '00
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$83.99
$83.15
John Thelwall: Radical Romantic...
Steve Poole
Paperback , Jan '16
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$110.00
$108.90
Keir Hardie: The Making of a Socialist
Fred Reid
Hardback , Nov '18
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$231.00
$228.69
Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Donald Thomas
Hardback , Sep '15
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$242.00
$239.58
Marcus Aurelius
Anthony R Birley
Hardback , Feb '16
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$326.00
$322.74
Robespierre
Otto Scott
Paperback , Sep '11
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$94.99
$94.04
Ida B. Wells
Kristina DuRocher
Paperback , Sep '16
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$75.99
$75.23
René and Postcolonial Seychelles:...
Ashton Robinson
Hardback , Aug '22
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$284.00
$281.16
Parallel Lives, Congenial...
Leopold Leeb
Hardback , Mar '24
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$273.00
$270.27
Stalin
Christopher Read
Paperback , Dec '16
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$39.99
$39.59
The Fog of War
James G. Blight
Paperback , Mar '05
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$63.99
$61.43
Claudius
Barbara Levick
Hardback , May '15
RRP:
$315.00
$311.85
Caligula
Anthony A. Barrett
Hardback , Mar '15
RRP:
$368.00
$364.32
Nero
Miriam Griffin
Hardback , Feb '16
RRP:
$284.00
$281.16
Stalin
Christopher Read
Hardback , Dec '16
RRP:
$284.00
$281.16
Thatcher
Graham Goodlad
Hardback , Dec '15
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$284.00
$281.16
M. N. Roy
Kris Manjapra
Paperback , Feb '10
RRP:
$77.99
$77.21
V.S. Srinivasa Sastri: A Liberal Life
Vineet Thakur
Hardback , Jun '23
RRP:
$284.00
$281.16
Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman
Philip Nash
Paperback , Mar '22
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$77.99
$77.21
The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders
Mary Dockray-Miller
Hardback , Feb '15
RRP:
$273.00
$270.27
The Conscience of Lebanon
Mordechai Nisan
Hardback , Apr '03
RRP:
$284.00
$281.16
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