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  • Newcomers

    The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    **“Newcomers illuminates a vibrant, teeming story of ambition, struggle, and hard-won success, unfolding in a world that the standard accounts banish to the footnotes.” —John MattesonOne of Lithub's "Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in May" and Book Culture's "Most-Anticipated New Books for May 2026"**A man thought to be a Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid fleeing poverty are hardly the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • God's Shadow

    Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    An “arresting” (New York Times Book Review) revisionist history demonstrating how Islam and the Ottoman Empire made our modern world.The history of the Ottoman Empire—once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power—has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this “original and wide-ranging” (Wall Street ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Under Osman's Tree

    The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Osman’s empire grew, it, too, covered the earth. This is the most widely accepted foundation myth of the longest-lasting empire in the history of Islam, and offers a telling clue to its unique legacy. Underlying every aspect of the Ottoman Empire’s epic ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • My Egypt Archive

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt“A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy.”—Publishers WeeklyAn unmatched contemporary history of authoritarian politics and an unflinching examination of the politics of historical authority, My Egypt Archive is at once a chronicle of Egypt in the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt

    An Environmental History

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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    Newcomers

    The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    Narrated by Gabriel Vaughan ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    The exceptional tale of an unorthodox, seventeenth–century married couple whose rags-to-riches story fundamentally rewrites our knowledge of American history at its very beginnings.A man thought to be Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid are hardly the image we have of America's founders. In Newcomers, Alan Mikhail upends the traditional story of American beginnings through the tale of Anthony ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's most important ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Water on Sand

    Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Alan Mikhail ...
    From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic environmental history of the region, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how these relationships shaped political, economic, and social history in startling and unforeseen ways ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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    Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

    by John Guy, Julia Fox ...
    “A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne’s triumph and tragedy." —Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review“A sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue, and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics.”—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of DevonshireA groundbreaking, freshly-researched ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Man from the Future

    The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

    by Ananyo Bhattacharya ...
    **A Scientific American 2023 Staff RecommendationAn electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.**The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Insect Crisis

    The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

    by Oliver Milman ...
    A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate.From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet’s known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent ... Read more

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  • Ravenna

    Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

    by Judith Herrin ...
    A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman EmpireAt the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For ... Read more

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