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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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Presbyterians and American CultureThis book provides a history of Presbyterians in American culture from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century. Longfield assesses both the theological and cultural development of American Presbyterianism, with particular focus on the mainline tradition that is expressed most prominently in the...
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Heraclius, Emperor of ByzantiumThis book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial Byzantine emperor Heraclius (ad. 610-641), a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad. His stormy war-torn reign is critical for understanding the background to fundamental changes in the Balkans and the Middle East, including...
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The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern EuropeThis book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early modern Europe. It examines the rise of a virulent form of Renaissance scholarship, art, and architecture that had as its...
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French Art of the Eighteenth Century: The Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of ArtThis beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presented in lectures at...
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Women, Art, and SocietyThis acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who "transcended" their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture have often been neglected, Whitney Chadwick's survey reexamines the...
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Christian Art: A Very Short IntroductionThis Very Short Introduction decodes the key themes, signs, and symbols found in Christian art: the Eucharist, the image of the Crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, the Saints, Old and New Testament narrative imagery, and iconography. It also explores the theological and historical background of...
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Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial JusticeThey were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most...
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Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special ForcesThey are sent to the world's hot spots-on covert missions fraught with danger. They are called on to perform at the peak of their physical and mental capabilities, primed for combat and surveillance, yet ready to pitch in with disaster relief operations. They are...
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From the Mouth of Ma: A Search for Caroline Quiner IngallsThere's not a whole lot written about Caroline Quiner Ingalls, the mother of famed Little House on the Prairie author, Laura Ingalls Wilder. And I always wondered why. So I set about looking for her. . .in family letters, bits of biography and, mostly,...
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The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle AgesThere is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V, the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard...
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Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for ImagesThe Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art and a rise...
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Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. Unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep historical scars...
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The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and LostThe War in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called "the Soviet Union's Vietnam War," a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, elusive, and ultimately unbeatable Afghan guerrilla force (the mujahideen). The hit-and-run bloodletting across the war's decade tallied more than 25,000 dead Soviet...
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The Wanderings of an Elephant HunterThe Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter is the story of Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell, a famous big game hunter in East Africa. 'Karamojo Bell, ' as he was known, devised many original techniques to seek out and capture his quarry, including a difficult rifle...
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Vintage Journal Old Russian Block House, St. Michael's, AlaskaThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Old Russian Block House, St. Michael's, Alaska, features a hand-tinted illustration of two Indigenous Alaskans sitting in front of the old Russian Block House at St. Michael's, Alaska, built in 1833. An American Flag is drapped over...
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Vintage Journal Mining Camp in WinterThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Mining Camp in Winter, features a hand-tinted photograph of an isolated mining camp nearly covered in snow in the mountains of Alaska. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect...
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Vintage Journal Malamute on ChairThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Malamute on Chair, features a portrait of Malamute ""Bob"", Eskimo sled dog, posed on a chair. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing...
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Vintage Journal Art Deco Yukon CruiseThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Art Deco Yukon Cruise, features an Art Deco era illustration advertising a cruise on the Yukon in Alaska. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next...
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Japanese ArtThe uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted, and transformed diverse influences--whether from Korea, China, and the South Seas, or Europe and America--into distinct traditions of its own. This book, an authoritative and provocative...
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To Make Our World Anew: Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to...
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