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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Mightier Than the Sword: Civilian Control of the Military and the Revitalization of DemocracyThe civilian role in managing the military has never been more important. Today, civilian leadership of defense policy is challenged by the blurring line between war and competition and the speed of machine decision-making on the battlefield. Moreover, the legitimacy of political leaders and...
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Michigan Railway Company: The Northern and Southern DivisionsMichigan Railway Company: The Northern and Southern Divisions, the first comprehensive history of the Michigan United Railway Company, traces the rise and fall of Michigan's most significant electric railway. This volume covers the company's founding in local rail-based public transportation systems in Lansing, Jackson,...
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MG: A Century On The Road"MG: A Century on the Road" is a captivating journey through the illustrious history of one of Britain's most iconic automobile brands, MG. From its humble beginnings in the early 1920s, under the visionary leadership of Cecil Kimber, to its resurgence in the modern...
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MemoriasPorfirio Díaz escribió estas Memorias, contando su vida entera desde su nacimiento hasta julio de 1867. En ellas reserva el primer capítulo a sus antepasados. Se incluyen, además, trece años de sus aventuras militares, hasta el momento en que fue candidato a las elecciones...
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Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet UkraineMikhail Goldis (1926-2020) worked as a detective and district attorney for 30 years in Soviet Ukraine and wrote his memoirs after immigrating to the US in 1993. Translated by Marat Grinberg, the memoirs tell the fascinating story of what it took for a Jew...
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Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding SchoolsA sweeping and trenchant exploration of the history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S., and the legacy of abuse wrought by systemic attempts to use education as a tool through which to destroy Native culture. From the mid-19th century to the late...
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America#1 New York Times Bestseller"Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in...
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Marcello Gandini: Maestro of Design: RevisitedA thorough look at the pioneering work of a world-renowned designer of supercars. Today, Marcello Gandini's global status as one of the most exceptional automobile designers in history is undisputed. He has wielded significant influence on automobile design throughout the latter half of the...
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Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in EuropeA lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries--and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a...
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Malabar Costumes: Growing Up With Canada's Most Famous Costume CompanyFor many, costumes represent only one day a year-Halloween. But not for anyone born into the Malabar family! Being a Malabar meant you were an active participant in forming the history of Canada's premier theatrical supplier, one costume at a time. From its humble...
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Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle EastThe Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those...
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Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to TodayAn incisive and illuminating history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life In recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, Americans have...
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Magnum America: The United StatesWhat is "America"? What does it look like? Where can it be found? What does "America" mean and for whom? This ambitious publication does not attempt to present a comprehensive photographic history of the United States but uses the stories and photographs in the...
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Lost Grand Resorts of Old Lake TahoeTravel to the past and enjoy a string quartet and an eight-course dinner in an elegant wilderness. Beginning in the 1880s, the beauty of Lake Tahoe enticed entrepreneurs to build the most opulent resort hotels in America catering to the wealthiest from California and...
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Los Rangers de Texas: Una guía fascinante sobre la historia de un organismo policial que ayudó a detener a los criminales más infames de EstSi desea descubrir la fascinante historia de los Texas Rangers, siga leyendo...Antes de que Texas se convirtiera en un estado de los Estados Unidos de América, se formaría la que sería la primera agencia estatal encargada de hacer cumplir la ley. Durante unos 150...
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Long Before the Pilgrims/Anos Antes de Los Peregrinos: The First Thanksgiving, El Paso del Norte, 1598/El Primer Dia de Accion de Gracias, El Paso delLong before the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621, a similar feast of thanks was shared in the New World. In the 1500s, Mexican conquistador Juan de O ate led an expedition north of the Rio Grande into an area now known as...
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Living on MemoriesLynne Oakes's book Living on Memories tells the moving story of her parents Robert and Frances Brown Oakes: it is both a love story and a World War II memoir. For decades World War II scholarship focused mainly on military campaigns, commanders and political...
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Live. Fight. Survive.: A Former British Soldier's Harrowing Account of Front-Line War in Ukraine and Russian TortureFormer British Army soldier Shaun Pinner's extraordinary first-hand account of the war in Ukraine. --------During nine years in the British Army, Shaun Pinner deployed on operations around the world, and trained in Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape. He never imagined that he would be...
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Life Below Stairs: In the Victorian & Country HouseFrom the cook, butler, and housekeeper to the footman, lady's maid and nanny, this is a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of some of Britain's grandest houses. An entertaining social history, steering the reader through the minefield of etiquette and hierarchy that kept Britain's...
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Leonardo Da Vinci: An Untraceable LifeHow our image of the Renaissance's most famous artist is a modern myth Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed next to nothing about his life in his...
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