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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFKThe origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century "Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through several iterations and shows the impact of religion on each."--Terry Golway, Wall Street Journal...
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Becoming FLO...A Mostly True StoryIt's Baltimore, 1920. You're 16. You have four adoring sisters and four disapproving brothers. You are the son of devout Orthodox Jewish immigrant parents who escaped Russian pogroms. Your murderously abusive father is repulsed by your artful interests. You're harboring a big secret. And...
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Baroque Sculpture in Germany and Central Europe (1600-1770)Around 1600, a new style of sculpture started to evolve and flourish in the German-speaking lands. Dramatic wood and stone figures peopled the palaces, gardens and churches of Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Vienna and Prague. These great works of art are little known outside...
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Ballpark: The Story of America's Baseball FieldsA vibrant visual history of America's most famous ballparks from award-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee--now with a new look! If you love baseball, chances are you love one particular ballpark. Boston fans wax poetic about Fenway Park, Cubs fans are adamant that Wrigley Field is...
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Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American IndiansIn Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing,...
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Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American IndiansIn Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing,...
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Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious RightWhat really gave rise to the Religious Right? There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight...
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Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525-1675Bad Christians and Hanging Toads tells riveting stories of witchcraft in everyday life in early modern Navarra. Belief in witchcraft not only emerged in moments of mass panic but was woven into the fabric of village life. Some villagers believed witches sickened crops and...
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Baby Sees Things That Go: A High-Contrast Board Book for BabiesA high-contrast board book full of vehicles, designed for babies' developing eyes by artist Janna Steagall Baby sees motorcycles. Baby sees cars. Baby sees trucks. Created for the youngest readers and their developing eyes, this high-contrast board book introduces all your favorite vehicles, including...
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A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of AmericaIn A Wilderness so Immense, historian Jon Kukla recounts the fascinating tale of the personal maneuverings, political posturing, and international intrigue that culminated in the greatest land deal in history. Spanning nearly two decades, Kukla's book brings to life a pageant of characters from...
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A Thomistic Christocentrism Recovering the Carmelites of Salamanca on the Logic of the IncarnationSaint Thomas Aquinas famously held the opinion that, in God's actual plan for the world, the Word would not have become flesh except to redeem us from sin. Conversely, Blessed John Duns Scotus argued that God intended Christ first, such that Christ would have...
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A Sword for Peace and Liberty: Volume 1: Force de Frappe - The French Nuclear Strike Force and the First Cold War 1945-1990An illustrated history of France's nuclear strategy during the Cold War.This book reconstructs the solid continuity of the nuclear strategy of the Republic of France, one of five permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations. Over the last 60 years France...
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A Story about a Real Man (Hardback)Author: Boris PolevoiPublisher: Benediction BooksPublished: 01/08/2010Pages: 344Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781849028622This title is not returnable
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A Stellar Key to the Summer LandThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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A Song for BohemiaPrague in the 1990s, an extraordinary place and time. The Cold War had ended. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Soviet-bloc countries like Czechoslovakia had just liberated themselves. The atmosphere was intoxicating, the future unmapped. And Anne Marie Kenny was there-a singer-turned-entrepreneur. Her true-life story...
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As Empires Fell: The Life and Times of Lee Hau-Shik, the First Finance Minister of MalayaTo understand how independence was gained for a politically complex country such as Malaysia, and how its structure took form requires familiarity with the key players involved. More importantly, only by locating these actors within the changing socio-political context in which they specifically lived...
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A Sense of Place and Belonging: The Chiang Tung Borderland of Northern Southeast AsiaA Sense of Place and Belonging examines a marginalized society, Chiang Tung (Keng Tung) in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar, between the dominant cultures of the Burmese, Chinese, and Siamese/Thai. Chiang Tung sits at the historic borderland known as the Golden Triangle, an...
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Art, Travel, and Exchange Between Iberia and Global Geographies, C. 1400-1550Traditional narratives hold that the art and architecture of the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century were transformed by the arrival of artists, objects, and ideas from northern Europe. The year 1492 has been interpreted as a radical rupture, marking the end of...
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A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, LouisianaA Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. Author Evelyn L. Wilson documents the presence, land ownership, business development, and...
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A Place in Common: Rethinking the History of Early DetroitAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Indigenous nations designated Detroit as a "common bowl" and a crucial nexus where they shared resources, made compromises, and coexisted. As the century unfolded, Detroit continued as a polyglot community in the face of expanding Euro-American settlement....
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