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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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Hell's BelleIt was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany. Sergeant William Rasmussen was the ball turret gunner on the Hell's Belle, a B-17 heavy bomber. During one of its missions, the Belle was shot down and the captured American...
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Southwestern Ornamentation & Design: The Architecture of John Gaw MeemJohn Gaw Meem was one of New Mexico's most renowned architects and his legacy is in part his contribution to the preservation and renewal of historic American Southwestern architecture. Because of his interest in the preservation, restoration and revival of this architecture, one of...
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History of African Americans in North CarolinaOriginally published in 1992, A History of African Americans in North Carolina was the first one-volume survey of black history in the state. It traced the story of black North Carolinians from the colonial period into the 1990s. A revised edition was issued in...
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Guide to North Carolina Highway Historical MarkersThis tenth revised edition of the popular marker guide contains inscriptions on 1,513 markers erected across the state between 1935 and 2007. The markers are conveniently grouped by county, and the counties are arranged alphabetically. Included are separate maps for each of the 100...
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The Textile Industry in North Carolina: A HistoryAuthor Brent D. Glass examines North Carolina's textile industry from its roots in the spinning wheels and handlooms of the colonial and antebellum periods through the massive buy-outs, consolidations, and plant closings of the 1980s. Contains more than 50 black-and-white illustrations and a selected...
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Black Britain: A Photographic HistoryPeople of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited the British Isles for centuries. Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions of black Britishness, has assembled a living history of black people in the British Isles. Spanning two hundred years,...
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The New Ireland: A Vision for the FuturePublished on the centenary of the founding of Sinn Fein, this books marks a significant point in the development in the political life in Ireland. Gerry Adams has been a principal architect of the political growth of republicanism during the last thirty years and...
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Argyll: The Making of a Spiritual LandscapeArgyll is the beautiful, wild and inspirational home of Celtic Christianity. It is the spiritual heartland of Scotland and, some would say, of the whole United Kingdom.Until now, no-one has sought to uncover the reasons why the spiritual landscape of Argyll is so distinctively...
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The Holy Wells of IrelandHoly wells have been a feature of the religion of the Irish people for longer than records have existed, and while pilgrimages to them are not as common as in the last centuries, many wells are still visited, particularly on the Saints' or 'Pattern'...
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The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century BritainThe first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes. This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and...
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Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Selections from Cause Et CureMedieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise. Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical...
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The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era: Primitive Accumulation and the PeasantryA compelling and critical destruction of both the English agricultural revolution and the theory of comparative advantage, upon which unequal trade has been justified for three centuries, this account argues that these ideas have been used to disguise the fact that the Northfrom the...
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Gwr/Br (Wr) Castle Class Manual: A Guide to the History and Operation of One of Britain's Most Successful Express Passenger Steam Locomotive TypesThe Great Western Railway 4073 Class, or Castle Class locomotives were the pride of the GWR when introduced in the mid-1920s, and were heralded as Britain's most-powerful express passenger locomotives. 171 Castles were built or converted between 1923 and 1950, and eight preserved examples...
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Gerhard Richter: Atlas: The ReaderGerhard Richter's ongoing, encyclopedic Atlas project began in 1964, and now comprises more than 5,000 gridded photographs, diagrams, drawings and sketches. As an image archive, work tool and artist's book, Atlas sits at the very heart of Richter's practice, offering a massive summation of...
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Anarchism: From Theory to PracticeAuthor: Daniel GuerinPublisher: Monthly Review PressPublished: 01/01/1970Pages: 166Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.50dISBN: 9780853451754
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A Catholic Eton?When in 1858 Newman was retiring from the Catholic University in Dublin, friends approached him when confronted with the problem of where to educate their sons and he became the central figure in the establishment of the Oratory School. Newmand and his co-founders -...
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History of the Reformation in ScotlandThese pages breathe the spirit of excitement and expectation of an eyewitness and participant in the unfolding drama of the work of God in 16th century Scotland.Author: John KnoxPublisher: Banner of Truth TrustPublished: 09/01/1991Pages: 392Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.47w x 0.96dISBN: 9780851513584This...
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Sermons on the Epistle to the EphesiansOne of the rarest of all the Reformer's works, C.H. Spurgeon commented 'The sermons are priceless.'Author: John CalvinPublisher: Banner of Truth TrustPublished: 08/01/1981Pages: 705Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.24lbsSize: 8.86h x 5.86w x 1.83dISBN: 9780851511702This title is only available via back order
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Hell's Highway: Operation Market GardenHell's Highway is the dramatic name given to the vital stretch of road that the British 3rd Guards Armoured Division had to advance down rapidly on their route to relieve the American Paras (82d Airborne) at Nijmegen and the British I st Airborne Division...
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Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of AmericaThis controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.Author: Thomas G. WestPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublished: 11/28/2000Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.01w x 0.60dISBN: 9780847685172
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