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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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Mormon Envoy: The Diplomatic Legacy of Dr. John Milton BernhiselFor more than twenty years, John Milton Bernhisel negotiated with the federal government on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bruce W. Worthen illuminates the life and work of the man whose diplomacy steered the Church's relationship with Washington, D.C....
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Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the OceanA vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science. What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they...
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The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of HappinessAn ambitious history of desire in Anglo-American religion across three centuries. The pursuit of happiness weaves disparate strands of Anglo-American religious history together. In The Delight Makers, Catherine L. Albanese unravels a theology of desire tying Jonathan Edwards to Ralph Waldo Emerson to the...
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What Is African Art?: A Short HistoryA history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By confronting the historically...
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Purple Gang in the North: How Club Manitou was Planned, Built, Operated, and TransmogrifiedDetroit's notorious Purple Gang had expansion plans: the northern woods of Michigan and its summer resorts. By 1929, Club Manitou was in operation, with a maze of escape tunnels surrounding its basement speakeasy. Here is the history of the club and its owner, with...
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The Great Wall in 50 ObjectsThe culmination of a lifetime's field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the Great Wall from the 2nd century BC to the late-20th century. Abraham Ortelius' pioneering world atlas, the unexpected origins of...
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People in Spite of History: Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat RegionThree generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg monarchy, then Hungary, then Yugoslavia, then for a while under German occupation, then again...
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Matthew and the Roman Military: How the Gospel Portrays and Negotiates Imperial PowerThis book addresses the ways in which the Gospel of Matthew portrays and negotiates Roman military power. John E. Christianson argues that Matthew, writing in the years following the Jewish War, offers strategies such as avoidance, accommodation, non-violent resistance, mimicry, and dreams of divine...
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The Unknown Imams: The Life and Thought of Their Eminences, the Imams Musa Ibn Ja'far Al-Kadhim, Muhammad Ibn Ali Al-Jawad, Ali Ibn MuhamThe Unknown Imams provides for the first time in English an accessible historical record of the life and thought of the Four Unknown Imams. It is a sad reality that no historical record of their lives and thoughts has been readily accessible to the...
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British Interwar AircraftWhen the RAF was formed in 1918, Great Britain boasted the largest air force in the world, but it was not to last. As soon as the armistice was declared, a rapid disarmament began. After a period of austerity, the surplus military aircraft formed...
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The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey: The Arms and Armour of DeathGround-breaking new studies of Henry V's chapel, tomb and funeral service have new revelations and insights into the time. Before Henry V set out in 1415 on the campaign which culminated in victory at Agincourt, he made a will laying down precise instructions for...
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A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New TestamentThe classic Greek lexicon which has proved invaluable to generations of Greek Testament students and scholars. It provides for each New Testament word its derivation, the Hebrew it represents if found in the Septuagint, its original and derived meanings with illustrations from biblical, classical...
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Walking The Razor's Edge: The Dutchman and The BaronWho was George de Morhenschildt, and what was his connection to Lee Harvey Oswald the accused assassin of President John F Kennedy? This book tells the amazing true story of Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans, his ten-year investigation into the assassination of President John F....
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Women in Song and Yuan ChinaThis deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960-1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in this era―political power, family, work, inheritance, religious roles, and emotions―and considers why the status...
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Mexico Unmanned: The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican CinemaIconic images of machismo in Mexico's classic cinema affirm the national film industry's historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state's political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of mexicanidad, but has the underlying gender paradigm been similarly...
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Art and the Global City: Public Space, Transformative Media, and the Politics of Urban RhetoricArt and the Global City brings together a host of academics (communication specialists, sociologists, historians and cultural theorists) who seek to expand the notion of a "communicative city" by looking at the role that art and public culture play in the rapidly expanding global...
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Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and HanshuWhile cultural literacy in early China was grounded in learning the Classics, basic competence in official life was generally predicated on acquiring several forms of technical knowledge. Recent archaeological finds have brought renewed attention to the use of technical manuals and mantic techniques within...
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Japanese Submarines in World War Two: Hirohito's Silent Hunters in ActionThe Imperial Japanese Navy developed the submarine faster than any other country in the world. But because of rivalries between the two military hierarchies, the Army and the Navy, they never utilized the submarine to its full extent. Nevertheless, during World War II, Japan...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of EmpiresIn the competition for remarkable queens, Eleanor of Aquitaine tends to win. In fact her story sometimes seems so extreme it ought to be made up. The headlines: orphaned as a child, Duchess in her own right, Queen of France, crusader, survivor of a...
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The Flower of All Cities: The History of London from Earliest Times to the Great FireNew in paperback - A unique account of old London with all its energy, filth and splendor before the city's destruction by the Great Fire in 1666. The history of London up to 1666 is a story of Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Plantagenets, Tudors...
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