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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WorkWork's meaning both within art and in its wider economic and social context: the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy.Warhol's Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism's assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers' conditions in the 1970s--these are among the...
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Great Tales from English History: The Truth about King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and MoreWith insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in...
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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the RevolutionWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives...
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Nacidos Para Correr / Born to Run: Superatletas, Una Tribu Oculta Y La Carrera Más Grande Que El Mundo Nunca Ha VistoUna historia tremendamente entretenida que cambi por completo la forma en que corremos.Una aventura pica que comenz con una simple pregunta: Por qu me duele el pie? Aislados por las peligrosas Barrancas de Cobre en M xico, los apacibles indios Tarahumara han perfeccionado durante...
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Two Lives of CharlemagneTwo revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and...
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Two Lives of CharlemagneTwo revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and...
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Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related SpectaclesTracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making.Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but...
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The Vikings: Third EditionThoroughly updated and with a new foreword The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces...
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Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American ContinentThis is the biggest, grandest, most sprawling epic ever told, filled with battles and hardship, courage, determination, daring voyages into the unknown, and eye-opening discoveries. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling, roughhouse...
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I Rode with Jeb Stuart: The Life and Campaigns of Major General J. E. B. StuartThis book, which is both biography and memoir, is the richest source on the Civil War career of the plumed knight of the Army of Northern Virginia, Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart. . . . It is by all odds the most reliable...
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Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control MiamiThe wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday--and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface... In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted...
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The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan FrontierThe true story of the Taliban's remarkable resurgence in Pakistan and war-torn Afghanistan more than a decade after the U.S. military's post-9/11 incursion In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had...
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The Supreme CourtThe sixteenth Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Rehnquist's engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall's dominance of the Court during...
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The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian WarThe globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this "rich, cautionary tale" (The New York Times Book Review) The French and Indian War -the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years' War-remains one of the most important,...
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California BanditThe first novel to feature a Mexican American hero: an adventure tale about Mexicans rising up against U.S. rule in California, based on the real-life bandit who inspired the creation of Zorro, the Lone Ranger, and Batman With a new foreword by Diana Gabaldon,...
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Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and RulersThe first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, particularly from the understudied Mamluk era. In...
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A History of the Middle East: Fifth EditionThe definitive history of the Middle East that provides the historical context to today's headlines The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab World. -The Washington Post One of the most crucial, volatile, and complex regions of...
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Napoleon: A LifeThe definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as magnificent by The Economist. What a novel my life has been! Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman,...
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The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict WomenThe convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery...
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Home Fires: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World WarThe basis for the PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford) Away from the frontlines of World War II, in towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their country's war effort. As...
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