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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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Circles"What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he...
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The AJK Anthology: A Collection of Biographical Memoirs and Short StoriesThe AJK Anthology: A Collection of Biographical Memoirs and Short StoriesBy: Artemios Korkidis and Dr. Katherine KorkidisDuring the Nazi occupation of the island of Crete in 1941, there lived a young man, Artemios Korkidis. In a series of biographical memoirs, short stories, and a...
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Taxation with Representation: A New Evil: The History of Dividing Our Nation through Class Warfare under the Guise of FairnessAs politicians from both sides of the political spectrum constantly deluge the citizenry with class warfare idioms and clichés, aided by the media, regarding tax policies, we, the people, continually are told the "rich need to pay their fair share." Or your favorite politician...
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The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden TriangleOpium Queen is the true story of the widely mythologized genderqueer Burmese opium-pioneer of noble Chinese descent, Olive Yang, who secretly ran an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. Olive Yang was a widely mythologized...
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Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation After the Freedmen's BureauThis book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process, transformed themselves from a stateless people into documented citizens. As claimants, Black southerners engaged an array...
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Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935Brian Behnken offers a sweeping examination of the interactions between Mexican-origin people and law enforcement--both legally codified police agencies and extralegal justice--across the U.S. Southwest (especially Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas) from the 1830s to the 1930s. Representing a broad, colonial regime, police...
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A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War EraMost mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment...
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Us Versus Them, Second Edition: The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of the Green ThreatAcclaimed historian of U.S.-Middle East foreign relations Douglas Little examines&8239;how American presidents, policy makers, and diplomats dealt with the rise of Islamic extremism in the modern era. Focusing on White House decision-making from George H. W. Bush to Barack Obama, Little traces the transformation...
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Exploring World History through Geography: From the Cradle of Civilization to A Globalized WorldFrom the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted--and still interact--with the environment around them, as well as the environment's role in not only shaping the society's world view but enabling the building of socially...
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Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912In this innovative analytical account of the place of emotion and embodiment in nineteenth-century British surgery, Michael Brown examines the changing emotional dynamics of surgical culture for both surgeons and patients from the pre-anaesthetic era through the introduction of anaesthesia and antisepsis techniques. Drawing...
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River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone's DrawingsA groundbreaking look at the drawings of Giuseppe Penone and how the medium of drawing articulates the artist's wide-ranging practice The youngest member of the Arte Povera movement, Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947) is well known for his sculptural works, yet he has maintained a...
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Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the AndesReading the Illegible examines the history of alphabetic writing in early colonial Peru, deconstructing the conventional notion of literacy as a weapon of the colonizer. This book develops the concept of legibility, which allows for an in-depth analysis of coexisting Andean and non-Native media....
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Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in TurkeyWith an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. Kurds constitute about 20 percent of Turkey, the largest Kurdish population in the region. The history of the Kurds in Turkey...
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Killing Contention: Demobilization in Morocco During the Arab SpringLike other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Moroccans were inspired by the events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011. Nine days after the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, thousands of Moroccans began protesting in the capital of Rabat on...
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Global Development: A Cold War HistoryIn the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds...
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Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of EnlightenmentA New York Times best art book of 2022 An A to Z exploration of the Enlightenment's quest for understanding and change, as revealed in the era's prints and drawings Are volcanoes punishment from God? What do a fly and a mulberry have in...
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The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' RevoltThe Jacquerie of 1358 is one of the most famous and mysterious peasant uprisings of the Middle Ages. Beginning in a small village but eventually overrunning most of northern France, the Jacquerie rebels destroyed noble castles and killed dozens of noblemen before being put...
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Distant Stage: Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada's Cultural DiplomacyIt is a little-known fact that the first cultural agreement Canada signed was with Brazil in 1944. The two countries' rapprochement launched a flurry of activity connecting Montreal to Rio de Janeiro amid the turbulence of war and its aftermath. Why Brazil? And what...
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Vintage Journal Alaskan Flag and PoemThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Alaskan Flag and Poem, features an illustration of Alaska's flag and a poem about Alaska by Marie Drake. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next...
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Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing CommunityIn Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert applies contemporary theories of community to works of fiction about the slave trade in order to both shed new light on slave trade studies and rethink the very notion of community.Author: Raphaël LambertPublisher: BrillPublished: 04/28/2022Pages:...
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