History
Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Manet: A Model FamilyA groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet's family to his art All families are complicated, but the family of ?douard Manet (1832-1883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for his wealthy parents. Her...
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Man and his Future; a Ciba Foundation VolumeThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Magical History Tour 3 in 1 Vol. 2Three educational adventures in one volume! Modern day siblings, Annie and Nico, explore time and history in this pocket-sized graphic novel. Learn about The Crusades, The Plague, and the 20th century famed physicist Albert Einstein, all with this brother-sister duo as your helpful guide!Author:...
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Macdonalds Of ClanranaldThis book is a detailed history of the MacDonalds of Clanranald, a Scottish clan who played a significant role in the country's political and social life during the Middle Ages. Alexander Mackenzie provides a comprehensive overview of the clan's origins, customs, and traditions, as...
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Louisa May Alcott: A BiographyMadeleine B. Stern, one of the world's leading Alcott scholars, shows how the breadth of Alcott's work, ranging from Little Women to sensational thrillers and war stories, serves as a reflection of a fascinating and complicated life dotted with poverty and riches alike, hard...
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L'otage: Drame En Trois ActesThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...
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Lo-Fi Photography: Art from Do-It-Yourself Chemistry and PhysicsOf all the arts, photography has perhaps the closest association with science and technology: the physics of light and colour combined with chemistry to capture images. Lo-Fi Photography is an ideal introduction to the science that lies behind photography and the array of simple...
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Little America: The War Within the War for AfghanistanA New York Times Notable BookThe author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, tells the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the US's political and military misadventure in Afghanistan. In this meticulously reported and illuminating book, Rajiv...
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Letters from the CBI: A Soldier's Journey through the Forgotten Theater of World War IIAn old shoebox sat near a pile of photos on the kitchen table. Inside, beneath a layer of dust, lay hundreds of letters lovingly tied up in bundles. Robert Forster and his siblings, tasked with cleaning our their parents' home after their passing, immediately...
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Lay of the Land: The History of Land Surveying in San Diego CountyAuthor: Michael J. PallamaryPublisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 11/11/2003Pages: 408Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 10.96h x 8.30w x 0.87dISBN: 9781410702845This title is not returnable
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Las grandes mentiras y fake news sobre Israel en la actualidadEl antisemitismo ha evolucionado de ser una persecuci?n religiosa a una discriminaci?n supuestamente racial, y actualmente se manifiesta como un ataque directo al jud?o del mundo, representado por Israel.Las mentiras, diatribas y noticias falsas sobre el Estado jud?o van desde lo absurdo hasta lo...
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King's Navy: Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and the Rise of American Sea Power, 1897-1947Between 1897 and 1945 the US Navy rose to lofty heights, with huge manpower, a lavish roster of ships, and a hard-earned reputation for professionalism and potency. By 1947, in the wake of the Second World War, the Navy, although still powerful, had been...
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King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)Hailed as "the most compelling account of [Martin Luther] King's life in a generation" by the Washington Post, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller is now adapted for young adults in this new standard biography of the most famous civil rights activist in American History. Often...
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Killing the Elites: Haiti, 1964In the summer and fall of 1964, a massacre took place in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti. After an ill-fated uprising, the brutal regime of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier ordered reprisals against the town that some of the insurgents were allegedly from. Entire...
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Kashi: The Valiant History of a Sacred GeographyKashi: The Valiant History of a Sacred Geography tells the story of the most sacred of all Hindu holy cities through the prism of sacred geography as is extensively documented in the Sthala Purana. The book features a summary of the Kashi Khanda from...
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Kansas and Kansans in World War I: Service at Home and AbroadWhen president Woodrow Wilson spoke in Topeka on February 2, 1916, in favor of a stronger military, he faced skepticism and outright opposition from many Kansas residents--including Governor Arthur Capper and University of Kansas chancellor Frank Strong. But when war against Germany was declared...
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Just Another Crisis?: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Southeast Asia's Rice Sector"This timely volume chronicles and analyses the intersection of rice policies and the pandemic through case studies of a diverse range of Southeast Asian countries: rice exporters, rice importers and city-states. There is no group of eminent researchers better suited to carrying out this...
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Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal CourtIn Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and...
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J.P. Bickell: The Life, the Leafs, and the LegacyHe stayed out of the spotlight, but Leafs fans know J.P. Bickell cast a long shadow. A self-made mining magnate and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P. Bickell lived an extraordinary and purposeful life. As...
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Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left, and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network inDive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremes In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of division and dissent in American...
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