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  • The Declaration of Independence

    by David Armitage ...
    Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world. ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Connor the Cornflake

    by David Armitage ...
    Now you may not think a cornflake can be special…… but you would be wrong. Connor is different, very different. He is strong, brave, fearless, a cereal version of James Bond and a really cool dude. But having been thrown in the rubbish, he soon realizes that he is special, but his first mission is to escape the jaws of a four-legged foe who thinks it's snack time. Join Connor the Cornflake and the ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Civil Wars

    A History in Ideas

    by David Armitage ...
    A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day.We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe to our present day. Defining ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

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  • The Adventures of Connor and Sparky

    by David Armitage ...
    Dreams can be anything you want them to be, but imagine flying through space doing cartwheels, flying past a giant floating doggy biscuit, or realizing that planet Mars, was in fact a giant chocolate bar. But this is just part of the story. Connor used to be such a happy little boy, but world events had made him sad and confused. Despite the best efforts of his mum and dad, and all the people who ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lighthouse Keeper's Breakfast

    by Ronda Armitage ...
    Illustrated by David Armitage ...
    Series series The Lighthouse Keeper
    From the best-selling creators of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch, rediscover the fantastically fun picture book of Mr and Mrs G's run-in with pirates!'Oh, yes!' exclaimed Mrs Grinling. 'We'd love to be pirates. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.'The lighthouse is 200 years old and to celebrate the town decides to throw a fancy-dress party! Mr and Mrs G dress-up as very scary pirates, but - oh no! - on ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

  • A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment

    Edited by Professor Stella Ghervas, Professor David Armitage ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Enlightenment, explores peace in the period from 1648 to 1815. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace ... Read more

    $92.59 USD

  • America on the World Stage

    A Global Approach to U.S. History

    by Organization of American Historians, Ted Dickson, David Armitage, Stephen Aron, Edward L. Ayers, Thomas Bender, Stuart M. Blumin, J. D. Bowers, Stuart M. Burton0, Charap1, Jonathan Chu2, Kathleen Dalton3, Betty A. Dessants4, Kevin Gaines5, Fred Jordan6, Melvyn P. Leffler7, Louisa B. Moffitt8, Philip D. Morgan9, Mark A. Noll0, Gary W. Reichard1, Daniel T. Rodgers2, Leila J. Rupp3, Brenda Santos4, Gloria Sesso5, Shammas Carole6, Suzanne M. Sinke7, Omar Valerio-Jimenez8, Penny M. Von Eschen9, Patrick Wolfe0, Pingchao Zhu1 ...
    Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Lighthouse Keeper's Rescue

    by Ronda Armitage ...
    Illustrated by David Armitage ...
    Series series The Lighthouse Keeper
    A brilliantly funny and heart-warming picture book about adventure and kindness - the second in the Lighthouse Keeper series.Together they ran down the steep, winding path to the beach below.And then they stopped. There it lay on the sand, a great, black, shiny whale.Looking out of the window one evening Mrs Grinling spots a whale on the beach and - oh no - it's stuck! Mr and Mrs Grinling realise ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Lighthouse Keeper's Catastrophe

    by Ronda Armitage ...
    Illustrated by David Armitage ...
    Series series The Lighthouse Keeper
    A modern-day classic, this picture book is loved by thousands of children around the world.'You must be brave, Mr Grinling, think of your poor little Hamish all alone in the dark. Think of all the ships that might be lost because your light isn't shining.'There's a lighthouse emergency! Hamish the cat is locked inside the lighthouse!And not just that - if Mr and Mrs Grinling can't get the door ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

  • The Age of the Democratic Revolution

    A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition

    by R. R. Palmer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Secession as an International Phenomenon

    From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

    by Alan M. Wachman, Aleksandar Pavkovic, Andrés Reséndez, Bruno Coppieters, Charles B. Dew, Christopher Wellman, David Armitage, Frank Towers, Margaret Moore, Paul Kubicek, Paul Quigley, Peter Radan, Peter Sluglett, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Robert Bonner, Stefan Zahlmann, Susan-Mary Grant, Terry Rugeley ...
    About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The History Manifesto

    by Jo Guldi, David Armitage ...
    How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history ... Read more

    $18.89 USD