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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A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone AgeWho invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until...
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Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic MalayaSevea reveals a universe of miracle-workers in Islamic Malaya, connecting the supernatural to material life, socioeconomic activities and production.Author: Teren SeveaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 10/20/2022Pages: 294Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62dISBN: 9781108702126About the AuthorSevea, Teren: - Teren Sevea is a historian...
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Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao ChinaAuthor: Martin T. FrommPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 10/20/2022Pages: 308Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65dISBN: 9781108469289
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A Historical View 1905 - 1999: Church of God (Full Gospel Hall) Bay Islands, Cayman Islands, Isle of PinesA HISTORICAL VIEW discovers the spiritual bloodlines of the Church of God (Full Gospel Hall) and offers an account of the early day leaders of this church. It retraces the steps of the church's founder, Richard Russell and other church ministers in their Caribbean...
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La segunda Guerra Mundial: Una guía fascinante de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el día D2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro Segunda Guerra Mundial: Una gu a fascinante de principio a fin (Libro en Espa ol/World War 2 Spanish Book Version) D a D: Una Gu a Fascinante de la Batalla de Normand a (Libro en Espa ol/D Day...
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Vintage Journal Group of Indigenous AlaskansThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Group of Indigenous Alaskans, features a hand-tinted photo of a group of Indigenous men, women, and children in native dress in Alaska. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect...
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The Mycenaeans: A Captivating Guide to the First Advanced Civilization in Ancient GreeceIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Mycenaeans, then keep reading... The Mycenaeans were the first advanced civilization to develop on mainland Greece and were responsible for much of the urban organization and cultural development seen in the early ancient Greeks....
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History for kids: Ming Dynasty: A captivating guide to the ancient history of Ming Dynasty (Ancient China)If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Ming Dynasty, China, then keep reading..China is one of the longest settled areas of the world; therefore, inventions, art, culture, and society have changed multiple times and in many ways from the beginning of...
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Los Indígenas en el Socialismo del Siglo XXIEl Capítulo VIII de la Constitución, constante de ocho artículos que van del 119 al 126, garantiza el derecho de nuestros indígenas a existir como pueblos y comunidades, organización social y económica, cultura, usos y costumbres, así como idiomas y religiones.Además, el 8 de...
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Vintage Journal Dividing Line, White Pass, SummitThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Dividing Line, White Pass, Summit, features a hand-tinted photo of the British Flag and the American Flag and a crowd of people at the dividing line between British Columbia and the U.S. Territory of Alaska on White...
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History for kids: Roman EmpireThrough innovations in everything from military tactics to daily life to politics, ancient Rome undoubtedly belongs to that special club of civilizations that have left an irreversible mark on our world. Indeed, the legacy of Rome is so deeply engraved into the foundations of...
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Pagan Portals - The Norns: Weavers of Fate and MagickIn The Norns: Weavers of Fate and Magick, we meet the ones who weave, measure, and cut at the base of the World Tree. With Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld we travel across time and meet ourselves as part of fate. In this meeting, we...
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Vintage Journal Park Hotel, Hot SpringsThe Vintage Pocket Journal Park Hotel, Hot Springs features an illustration of the Park Hotel in Hot Springs, with some people on the roof. At the bottom, ""The Park; Hot Springs National Park; Arkansas"" is written. This journal has full color decorative vintage art...
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History of the French RevolutionThe Revolution, according to Jules Michelet (1798-1874), is the "tardy advent of Eternal Justice" against the tyranny of the monarchy. It is personified by the People, whose joy and misery Michelet evokes in every page of this "romantic history" of unprecedented social upheaval.Charles Cocks'...
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Destruction of Paradise: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Sack of the Summer PalaceThe first work of its kind in the English language, Destruction of Paradise describes one of the most dramatic and far-reaching events in East-West relations---the sack and burning of the Chinese Emperor's Summer Palace by an Anglo-French army in October 1860. The Summer Palace...
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From Enemies to Partners: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent OrangeThe impact and tragedy of war do not end when the guns fall silent...Ten to fifteen percent of all Vietnamese with disabilities are probably Agent Orange victims...Agent Orange is a humanitarian concern we are doing something about.More than four decades after the Vietnam War,...
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One Friday in Jerusalem: Walking to Calvary- a Tour, a Faith, a LifeThe Via Dolorosa--Latin for "Way of Grief," "Way of Sorrows," or "Painful Way"--is a street in the Old City of Jerusalem, held to be the route that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion. It is a distance of about six hundred meters...
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The Gun Club: U.S.S. Duncan at Cape EsperanceThe U.S. Navy's first planned battle of WWII is told through the extraordinary, little-known story of USS DUNCAN, the first Allied warship to penetrate a Japanese battle-line. From their first encounter with their celebrated captain and tyrannical executive officer to a deadly night afloat...
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The Psychic Highway: How the Erie Canal Changed AmericaThe Erie Canal delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Susan Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to Seneca Falls for history's first women's convention, to Rochester to meet and support abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, to witness the Fox Sisters summon...
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The Great Leopard HuntIn 1950 a wild leopard from India nearly escaped from his grotto in the Oklahoma City Zoo. The zoo placed him in one deeper. Still longing for freedom with heart-driven resolve, he did the impossible. Thus began his three-day reign of terror. Not only...
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