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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Mustang vs. Camaro: The Pony Car WarsFor over half a century, two American legends have battled wheel-to-wheel, engine to engine, defining the very essence of muscle car rivalry. Mustang vs. Camaro: The Pony Car Wars takes you on an exhilarating journey through the storied competition between Ford's iconic Mustang and...
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Murder of the Jujube Candy Heiress: A Coronado Cold CaseOne candy heiress, two bullets and three suspects. The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian Ruth Quinn was murdered, execution-style, in her cottage. Her death...
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More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Continuing the StruggleThelegal struggle for civil rights throughout the Southeast and into the 1980s In this book, twenty-threelawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civilrights in the United States South. While the lives of civil rights lawyers areoften unknown or forgotten, this...
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MonticelloCarved out of timber and prairie and surrounded by fields of soybeans and corn, Monticello was founded in 1822 and named after Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate. Monticello, a National Main Street Community, boasts an intriguing history as one of the "patent medicine capitals of...
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Monet: The Bigger PictureMonet's breathtaking artistry comes fully alive in this luxurious volume that features dozens of exquisite reproductions; forty- eight extra pages on six fold-out spreads; colored edges; and a printed canvas binding. From early works depicting the forests at Fontainebleau and the beach at Sainte-Adresse,...
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Modernist HellenismModernist Hellenism argues that engagement with Greek was central to the evolution of modernist poetics throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It shows that Eliot, Pound, and H.D. all turn to Greek literature, and increasingly Greek tragedy, as they attempt to grapple...
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Modern Algeria, Second Edition: The Origins and Development of a NationPraise for the first edition: "[E]ssential reading for Maghreb specialists as well as for anyone interested in issues of nation-building and political culture in Africa." --Africa Today"[T]he best and most comprehensive history of modern Algeria in English." --Digest of Middle East Studies"[A] thoughtful and...
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Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648: Aspects of Institutional Change and DeclineMilitary Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 investigates change and decline in military institutions during a period of protracted and destructive European warfare. Conceptual background is provided by the Military Revolution thesis, which argues that changes in military technology and tactics drove revolutionary...
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Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of LifeA Best Book of the YearSeed Magazine - Granta Magazine - The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. coli's pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. He reveals...
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Metaphors: Understanding Philosophy Through ImagesA visually stunning journey through some key philosophical concepts, presented through simple metaphors and captivating artwork. The perfect book for a budding philosopher or anyone interested in in exploring profound ideas through art. The word metaphor comes to us from Ancient Greek, in which...
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Merchant Saint: The Church, the Market, and the First Lay CanonizationPaul Voss and Donald Prudlo trace Western attitudes to money, merchants, and the market through 3,000 years of history. They focus their attention on one person in particular, Omobono of Cremona (1117-1197), as an axial figure in the wholesale reappraisal of the value of...
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Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200What does it mean to be a man? What makes one effeminate or manly? What renders a man 'Byzantine'? Drawing from theories of gender, posthumanism and disability, this book explores the role of learning, violence and animals in the construction of Byzantine masculinities. It...
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March oninspired by recent women's marches, sisters Lucy and Grace Lang's book for very young children honors the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which secured women's right to vote in the United States. As the world churns, all parents are striving to...
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Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity Since the Irish Civil WarFrom the dark shadow of civil war to the pastel-painted towns of today, Making Ireland Irish provides a sweeping account of the evolution of the Irish tourist industry over the twentieth century. Drawing on an extensive array of previously untapped or underused sources, Eric...
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Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked SexWe take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel so natural for us to link food and sexual pleasure? Rachel...
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Lucianity: The Perverse Religion of ChristiansLucianity, the Perverse Religion of Christians is a book about the hidden history of the New Testament -- where it not only reveals the scripture's mysterious origin ... but also its very unique and clandestine creation. In this book, the reader will learn that...
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Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950sThis sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as Pete...
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Local Baby Rehoboth BeachBursting with delightful colors and bright illustrations, Local Baby Rehoboth Beach engages babies' attention and encourages families to explore what makes their city so great.Families can walk along Rehoboth Beach's historic boardwalk, ride the Sea Dragon and play skeeball at Funland, and pick their...
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LiverpoolThis action-packed book gives young readers a full history of Liverpool, from the club's founding to the present day. The book features a table of contents, informative sidebars, a Superstar Profile special feature, a Quick Stats page, a glossary, links to additional resources, and...
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Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern TaiwanIn Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent family Buddhism in Taiwan that fashions children as religious subjects through shared attention...
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