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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A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their UniversityShortly before David Lowry Swain's thirty-second birthday, the North Carolina General Assembly elected him the state's twenty-sixth governor. He remains its youngest. In the context of his time he was an activist executive, prodding the state to develop its infrastructure, thereby promoting economic development,...
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Haiti Between Pestilence and Hope: The Progressive Ideals from the Revolution of 1804 Set the PaceHaiti Between Pestilence and Hope: The Progressive Ideals from the Revolution of 1804 Set the Pace brilliantly presents Haiti's entire socio-political and economic history with poignant analysis into a mere eight chapters.From the relatively peaceful and stable pre-colonial period, to the illustrious independence victory,...
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The Oldest Art of Siberia: Technologies, Forms, SymbolsPrimitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient society.Author: Liudmila V. Lbova, Pavel V. VolkovPublisher: Academica PressPublished: 12/28/2022Pages:...
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New York in Pictures - an illustrated tour of NYC & facts about its famous sites: Learn about the Big Apple while looking at colorful engaging artworkHello and welcome to this marvelous collection of detailed colorful illustrations, along with useful facts of New York City's famous sites. You will feel like you are going on a tour of New York City and its surroundings.Here you will find artistic pictures and...
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Common Sense for the 21st Century: A Call to Reinvest in American DemocracyThe state of affairs for America in 1776 was a divided public regarding how to move forward with respect to Great Britain. Many colonists wanted to stay loyal to King George and work things out, even though they had experienced many insults to their...
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The Sumerian Civilization: An Enthralling Overview of Sumer and the Ancient SumeriansHow much do you know about the "cradle of civilization?" Come explore the legacy of the brilliant ancient Mesopotamians who transformed the world. Ancient Mesopotamia's legacy was truly revolutionary. Childlike pictures scratched into wet clay evolved into the first written language. The Mesopotamians wrote...
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The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century VirginiaThe Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia changes the narrative about the origins of race and Whiteness in America. With an exhaustive array of archival documents, Carmen P. Thompson demonstrates not only that Whiteness predates European expansion to the...
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The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume IV: Reactions to ColonialismThe collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or...
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A Life in Another TimeA Life in Another Time is a true story of growing up in Mississippi, mainly during the nineteen-fifties and -sixties. The narrative is fast paced with a sense of humor and gives a rare insight into the thinking and feelings of a Southern teenager...
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Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of EmpireA profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. Traditional interpretations of the British Empire's emerging success and expansion have long overshadowed the deep uncertainty that...
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The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War--An Oral HistoryThe first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians...
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ChinaWelcome to China--home of the Great Wall of China, the terracotta warriors of Xi'an, and giant pandas! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about China's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps,...
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Blackholes: Every Thing You Need to Know About It for Space Agencies (The Key to Understanding the Universe): The Key to UnderstanBlack hole are the most fascinating object of this universe.there were always thousands of question revolving around my mind about black holes when i was a teenager. To find answer to those questions i read a lot of books.i tried to put all those...
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My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer WarNew edition with an eight-page biography of the author, and more than 60 footnotes explaining events, personalities and phrases to the present-day reader. General Ben Viljoen was one of the most important figures of the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, but because of his...
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Spare Parts: A Rollicking Ride through the Late 60s and 70sLacey Pierce, recently returned from the Peace Corps in Africa, falls in love with a young lawyer and peace activist, Doug Pierce. Doug has been sentenced to prison for resisting the local draft during the Vietnam War. While waiting for the appeal on the...
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Bird GodsBird Gods is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on...
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Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses Around the World. Vol. 2Climate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time series documents this housing revolution. What role do homes play in our endangered world? How can they innovate?In Sri Lanka, Palinda Kannangara created the Frame Holiday...
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Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century: Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of PowerThis book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities...
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Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First CenturyModern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives - sometimes controversial - about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time,...
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Midnimo, Maandeeq, iyo Muraayaddii Jabtay"Halgankiyo midnimadiyoRaggii calanka soo mudeyAn baroorannee maye?Mataaneynti QarankiyoHaddii magicii naga lumayMaxay noloshu noo tahayKolley mowdku waa gareNafta maysku aasnaa?!Haddaan weynay maan iyoAqli noo maqooradaMa inaan gob nahay baanMartidiyo shisheeyaha'Masawira' niraahnaa?!Nin waliba muraad leheInuu qoys maciin bidoMajarihii XorriyaddunaKa habaabo marrinkiiMaangaabnimaa leheMarna mays tiraahdeen'Hanta labada kii...
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