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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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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSRA poignant and deeply researched history of gay oppression in the USSR. In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Red closet recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were affected...
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Recreation Without Humiliation: Black Leisure in the Twentieth-Century SouthRecreation without Humiliation is the first comprehensive study of Black amusement venues established by Black Americans for Black Americans. Mary Stanton's extensive research on African American amusement parks in America explores not only segregation, class, and social barriers but also the notion of the...
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Reconciliation as a Controversial Symbol: An Analysis of a Theological Discourse in South AfricaReconciliation is never simple and straightforward; it is often tied to ideological conflict, resulting in very different understandings of what this noble Christian ideal is all about.In this important study, Dr. Demaine Solomons provides a thorough conceptual analysis of the term "reconciliation" within the...
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Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their ChallengesThe opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of reading in these archives. This transnational study...
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Radical: Why you shouldn't dismiss a RadicalUnveiling the Truth: The Misconception of Radicals - Fighting for Positive Change or Destroying America? A Deep Dive into Historical and Current Perspectives. This incisive book dissects the term radical and challenges the preconceived notions that often accompany it. The narrative delves into the...
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Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's IndependenceRadical Solidarity tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (1916-89), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of nationalist revolutionaries during Puerto Rico's long struggle for independence. Reynolds dedicated her life to ending US control of the archipelago. She testified...
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Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's IndependenceRadical Solidarity tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (1916-89), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of nationalist revolutionaries during Puerto Rico's long struggle for independence. Reynolds dedicated her life to ending US control of the archipelago. She testified...
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Radcliffe-Brown: Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1995) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker, and a sharp critic of...
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Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers"It's a girl!" the Ontario press announced, as Canada's first woman lawyer was called to the Ontario bar in February 1897. Quiet Rebels explores experiences of exclusion among the few women lawyers for the next six decades, and how their experiences continue to shape gender issues...
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Promised Land: How the Midwest Was WonAuthor: Peter BronsonPublisher: Chilidog Press LLCPublished: 10/28/2024Pages: 276Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58dISBN: 9798990985735
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Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish TownUsing a wide range of archival material and a microhistorical approach, Plagues of the heart explores the formation, practice and performance of protestant identity amid the interlocking crises of the seventeenth century. Taking the southwestern port city of Ayr as a remarkable but revealing...
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Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in BelorussiaThe Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of young Jews who survived the war. Thousands of young girls and boys were thus orphaned and struggled for survival on their own. This book is the first...
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Pioneering Spirit: Chronicles of Evangel College's First 25 Years 1955-1980Author: Hector CruzPublisher: Hector CruzPublished: 11/04/2024Pages: 274Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58dISBN: 9798991419604This title is not returnable
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Philippine Vol. 1: Children of the SunThis is not a historical novel. This is a docudrama in book form. Philippine traces the adventurous life of an 18th century free coloured family in Grenada, Carriacou and Trinidad-with excursions into France, England and, aboard a French corsair raider, all over the Atlantic...
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People's China at 75 - The Flag Stays RedWhen the People's Republic of China was proclaimed on 1 October 1949, China was one of the poorest and most wretched societies on earth. Illiteracy was as high as life expectancy was low but as Chinese leader Mao Zedong had remarked even before the...
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Past the End of the Road: A North Island BoyhoodPast the End of the Road recounts a free-range adolescence in mid-century Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island, at a time when, with no roads south, the town was only connected to the rest of the island by air and sea and the Union...
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Panini Legends: A Celebration of the World's Greatest Football StickersPANINI'S GREATEST FOOTBALL STICKER STARS IN ONE AMAZING BOOK 'Got, got, need', 'swapsies' and 'shinies'PANINI LEGENDS showcases in sticker form 85 of the most-celebrated players in men's and women's football. Icons like Pel?, Diego Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer and Bobby Moore are present, of course,...
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Palestine A - ZPalestine A - Z was produced in response to the often heard assertion that the Israel/Palestine issue is 'complicated'. Here is an explainer; a collection of short entries, in alphabetical order, covering the key parties, organisations and issues which are lost behind the headlines....
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Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia: 8th to 11th CenturiesGardens were both a setting and showcase for nearly every aspect of social and daily life at the royal court during the early Islamic period in Western Asia. Safa Mahmoudian uses a wide range of primary source materials including contemporary Arabic manuscripts, together with...
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Out of the Shadows: Women of the Restoration MovementAuthor: Angela MabePublisher: Cobb PublishingPublished: 11/10/2024Pages: 292Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61dISBN: 9781965789889
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