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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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Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz CommonsA new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musiciansBrassroots Democracy recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of...
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BOXING (V-Five) The Aviation Training Office of the Chief of Naval OperationsThe V-Five programme of the 1940s represented a comprehensive overhaul and alignment of US Naval Aviation Physical Training. The programme covered combat sports like Boxing and Wrestling, alongside Swimming, American Football, Track & Field, Swimming and more. The Boxing edition of the V-Five programme...
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Bounded Wilderness: Land and Reform at the Hermitage of Fonte Avellana, Ca. 1035-1072In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways...
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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find ThemA lavishly illustrated look at some of Boston's most historic buildings, now available in a new, updated edition. Winner of the Historic New England Book Prize and a Boston Preservation Alliance Annual Achievement Award. As Boston fast approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, the city's architecture...
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Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano"At least as good as Mario Puzo, with shades of David Mamet or even Arthur Miller."--New York Daily News Paul Castellano headed New York's immensely powerful Gambino crime family for more than ten years. On December 16, 1985, he was gunned down in a...
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Boom: Bubbles and the End of StagnationA timely investigation of the causes of technological and scientific stagnation, and a radical blueprint for accelerating innovation. "Read this book for the alternative history of our age." --Peter Thiel, investor and author of Zero to One "A must-read for those who seek to...
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Book of Giants"Book Of Giants: A to Z" is not just a compendium of over 1000 mythological and folkloric tales, but a daring exploration into the tantalizing question: Could giants have truly walked the Earth? This book takes readers on a captivating journey from A to...
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BombersThis book describes the history, features, and uses of bombers. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, sidebars, comprehension questions, a glossary, an...
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Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from...
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Blood River 1838: The Zulu-Boer War and the Great TrekA myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike. By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-east, but was under...
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Black Robes Enter Coyote's World: Chief Charlo and Father de Smet in the Rocky MountainsBlack Robes Enter Coyote's World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana's Native peoples--a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformative decades of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Sally Thompson tells the story of how Jesuit values played out...
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Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniatures and Britain, 1600 to NowA richly illustrated exploration of the impact of South Asian Miniature painting on contemporary art. This book tells the dynamic story of contemporary art's engagement with the miniature painting traditions of South Asia from the sixteenth century onwards, and the role of Britain in...
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Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green BeretAs a child, Robert Howard was taught by his Granny Callie to always face his threats head-on. Some thirty years later, he emerged from the Vietnam War as America's most decorated Green Beret. For the first time, Robert Howard's story is being told in...
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Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China RelationsQuestions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a declining hegemon and a rising rival is based exclusively on European examples, such as the Peloponnesian...
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Beothuk: How Story Made a People (Almost) DisappearThe well-known story of the Beothuk is that they were an isolated people who, through conflict with Newfoundland settlers and Mi'kmaq, were made extinct in 1829. Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk and the reasons for their supposed extinction soon became entrenched in...
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Baptists in America: A HistoryThe Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built strong institutions, from megachurches...
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Babies Made Us ModernPlacing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies during the twentieth century. She examines how babies shaped American society and culture and led their families into the modern world to...
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A Walk Through Ancient Rome: A Guide to the Landmarks That Shaped the City's HistoryIn this expert guide to the ancient city, Dr. Philip Matyszak takes us on a tour of ancient Rome's most fascinating and important sites and locations, revealing the secrets of the beating heart of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire....
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Authoritarianism in the American South: Beliefs That Led to Slavery and Civil War, 1606-1861The evidence is overwhelming that the protection and expansion of slavery was a primary reason for the secession of the Confederate states and the Civil War that followed. While slavery undoubtedly was important, a more fundamental cause was a belief system held in common...
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Asylum on the Hill: History of a Healing LandscapeAsylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Built in southeast Ohio after the Civil War, the asylum embodied...
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