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  • The Slaves' Gamble

    Choosing Sides in the War of 1812

    by Gene Allen Smith ...
    An "impressively researched," sweeping and original look at American slavery in the early nineteenth century that reveals the gamble slaves had to take to survive ( The Christian Science Monitor ).Images of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • A Double-Edged Sword

    The Biography of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott, 1782–1845

    by David F. Long ...
    Series series Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
    An overdue reassessment of one of the US Navy’s most decorated—and divisive—early commanders, whose legacy remains teetering between heroism and scandalous.A Double-Edged Sword: The Biography of Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott, 1782–1845 is a comprehensive and long-overdue portrait of one of the most polarizing figures in early US naval history. Written over the course of a decade and completed ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Fortified Sea

    The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

    by Pedro Cruz Freire, María Mercedes Fernández Martín, Manuel Gámez Casado, Aaron Graham, Francisco Javier Herrera García, Nuria Hinarejos Martín, Ignacio J. López-Hernández, Pedro Luengo, Alfredo J. Morales, José Miguel Morales Folguera, Juan Miguel Muñoz Corbalán0, Gene Allen Smith Jr.2, Jesús María Ruiz Carrasco Jr.4, Germán Segura García Jr.5, Mónica Cejudo Collera Jr.6, Christopher K. Waters Jr.7 ...
    Series series Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology
    WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S 2025 DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARDA multinational, interdisciplinary study illuminating how fortifications reshaped the Caribbean as a contested imperial borderland in the eighteenth century.A Fortified Sea illuminates the key role of military forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century. The historical Caribbean, with its multiple ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Filibusters and Expansionists

    Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821

    by Frank L. Owsley Jr., Gene Allen Smith Jr. ...
    Uncover the untold story of America’s 19th-century adventurers and their quest for empire.The first two decades of the 19th century found many Americans eager to move away from the crowded eastern seaboard and into new areas where their goals of landownership might be realized. Such movement was encouraged by Presidents Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe—collectively known as the Jeffersonians—who ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • America, U.S.A.

    How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

    by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.“A thoughtful, insightful, beautifully written book that is timely and welcomed in these perilous times.”—Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy**“Eddie S. Glaude Jr. opens a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Chain of Ideas

    The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age.“Kendi argues brilliantly that we must work across race and class lines to eradicate social ills and eliminate fascism.”—Los Angeles ... Read more

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  • The Matter of Black Lives

    Writing from The New Yorker

    Edited by Jelani Cobb, David Remnick ...
    A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision ... Read more

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  • Hitler's First Hundred Days

    When Germans Embraced the Third Reich

    by Peter Fritzsche ...
    The history of Germany’s fractured republic and how it gave way to the Third Reich, from the breakthrough of the Nazi party to the rise of Hitler.**"Elegant and sobering." —**New York TimesAmid the ravages of economic depression, Germans in the early 1930s were pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, Germany turned itself inside out, from a deeply divided ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Home Ec for Everyone: Practical Life Skills in 118 Projects

    Cooking · Sewing · Laundry & Clothing · Domestic Arts · Life Skills

    by Sharon Bowers, David Bowers ...
    Did you remember your scissors?Discover the tremendous pleasure of learning how to do it yourself how to cook, sew, clean, and more, the way it used to be taught in Home Ec class. With illustrated step by step instructions, plus relevant charts, lists, and handy graphics, Home Ec for everyone offers a crash course in learning 118 practical life skills-everything from frosting the perfect birthday ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Gangsters of Capitalism

    Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

    by Jonathan M. Katz ...
    **A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shape our world today―told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine."Far more extraordinary than even the life of Smedley Butler."―The Washington Post**Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever ... Read more

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  • Marvelous Possessions

    The Wonder of the New World

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "A marvelous book . . . a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'the wonder of the New World.'" —Anthony Pagden, Times Literary SupplementPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorA masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery ... Read more

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  • Redeem a Nation

    The Century-Long Battle to Restore the Soul of America

    by Damario Solomon-Simmons ...
    **“Solomon-Simmons’s extraordinary lawyering, activism, and engagement on how we repair harms long unaddressed are at the forefront of urgent and critical issues in this country. Redeem a Nation tells an American story we cannot ignore.”—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just MercyWe all feel it, the teetering toward a place in America from which there is no return. The battle ... Read more

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