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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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Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in ChinaQigong--a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercises--was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth-century urban China. The practice was promoted by senior Communist Party leaders as a uniquely Chinese healing tradition and as a harbinger of a new...
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Vichy France: Old Guard and New OrderRobert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. With a new introduction and updated bibliography, Vichy...
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The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped FabricMichel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France from the Holy Land, the...
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The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of CapitalismThe notion of ethnicity as it is currently used is theoretically ambivalent, confusing, indeed self-contradictory, according to Rey Chow. To radically reconceptualize the ways ethnicity functions in capitalist society, Chow proposes that it be analyzed in conjunction with Max Weber's famous theory about the...
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After the Last Sky: Palestinian LivesA searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's dislocated past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.Author: Edward SaidPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 07/14/1999Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.76h x 7.38w x...
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Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in IndiaThe role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help...
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Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Empire, Volume 2Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which takes into account recent work in the field. These volumes consist of selected primary documents from ancient Rome, covering...
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The Writing of HistoryFrom the seventeenth-century attempts to formulate a "history of man" to Freud's Moses and Monotheism, de Certeau examines the West's changing conceptions of the role and nature of history.Author: Michel De CerteauPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 10/29/1992Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x...
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Film and HistoryFilm is the pre-eminent mass medium of the modern age. It is a valuable source of evidence for the study of both the past and the contemporary world, and is a social practice that has affected the lives of millions. How can historians engage...
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Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western CivilizationFrom one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the...
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Medicine and Empire: 1600-1960The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history - spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America. Exploring the major developments in...
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For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike RoykoIn 1999, the University of Chicago Press published a collection of Mike Royko's columns, entitled One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko. The response was immediate and overwhelming--readers almost instantly began asking when the second volume of Royko columns would appear. With more...
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The Sarpedon Krater: The Life and Afterlife of a Greek VasePerhaps the most spectacular of all Greek vases, the Sarpedon krater depicts the body of Sarpedon, a hero of the Trojan War, being carried away to his homeland for burial. It was decorated some 2,500 years ago by Athenian artist Euphronios, and its subsequent...
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Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the WorldAuthor: Beatrice K. OttoPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 08/01/2007Pages: 444Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.93h x 6.41w x 0.99dISBN: 9780226640921About the AuthorBeatrice K. Ottolives and works in Geneva.
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Credulity: A Cultural History of Us MesmerismFrom the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced...
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The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for JusticeAmerican students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In The Color of Mind, Derrick Darby and John L....
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Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New WorldA masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, particularly in the New World. In a series of innovative...
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Desiring ArabsSexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became...
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Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air PollutionNothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly poisoning us. Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand...
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Islam in LiberalismIn the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, citizenship, and democracy. In the most alarmist views, the West's most cherished values--freedom, equality, and...
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