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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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Wisconsin: A HistoryA haven for summer tourists and winter sport enthusiasts, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. Richard Nelson Current's compact history reveals the colorful past of America's Dairyland, from early explorers and gangsters to latter-day...
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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle EastKingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of...
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Where Light and Shadow Meet: A MemoirIt soon became clear that her marriage would have both its passions and its betrayals. Yet Emilie stayed with Oskar through his growing involvement with the Nazis, working for counterintelligence with him. She first, then he later, came to realize the costs of the...
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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of EmpireIn Dark Ages America, the pundit Morris Berman argues that the nation has entered a dangerous phase in its historical development from which there is no return. As the corporate-consumerist juggernaut that now defines the nation rolls on, the very factors that once propelled...
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What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern HistoryThe Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions--a system of slavery flourishing in a land of freedom, secession and Civil War tearing at a federal Union, deep poverty persisting in a nation of fast-paced...
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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal FearReaders of Edgar Allan Poe's tales--just think of The Premature Burial--may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well...
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The Muslim Discovery of EuropeThe eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here...
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The Earth Encompassed: A History of the Environmental SciencesThis authoritative volume chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins. Peter J. Bowler brilliantly synthesizes discoveries in geography, geology, and evolutionary biology that have brought us to our current knowledge of the fragility and connectedness of life on earth and created the...
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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the penetrating...
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Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a DecadeAfter the death of John Kennedy, LBJ and RFK were the dominant political figures of the 1960s, each fighting for the spotlight, each struggling to emerge from the other's shadow. Their arguments echoed across the nation, as "Johnson men" and "Kennedy men" waged political...
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The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923The second volume discusses the regime's economic policies; the civil war and the subsequent series of radical measures known as "war communism"; the revolt of the peasants; and the catastrophic decline of industry that forced Lenin to institute the New Economic Policy (NEP). The...
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Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (Revised)Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited them to the task of invention but left them ill-prepared to face a world of skeptics, rivals, and officials. Using a treasure trove of...
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The Origins of Modern GermanyThe turbulent history of Germany up to World War II has its roots in a thousand years, from the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 A. D. to hegemony and subsequent foundation of medieval Germany, to the rise of Prussian power under Bismarck. Goeffrey Barraclough's...
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The Politics of NormalcyAuthor: Robert K. Murray, K. Murray RobertPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1973Pages: 180Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41dISBN: 9780393094220About the AuthorMurray, Robert K.: - Robert K. Murray is a professor of history at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his...
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The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy Volumes IV-VI: The Winds of Change: October 29, 1962 - February 7, 1963In the summer of 1962, President John F. Kennedy asked the Secret Service to install a hidden taping system in the White House Oval Office and Cabinet Room. Reel-to-reel tape recorders were placed in the basement, connected to concealed microphones, and operated at the...
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Parisians: An Adventure History of ParisThis is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten. A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through...
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century ParisIn the 1870s, three women--Blanch, Augustine, and Genevieve--found themselves in the hysteria ward of the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris under the direction of the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. Their illness came to define the era, and in turn they became medical celebrities: every week,...
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Bismarck and the German EmpireFor most people Bismarck is the man of blood and iron; he coined the phrase himself and he lived up to it. But he was much more; he had an itellectual ascendancy over all the politicians of his day, and his superiority was acknowledged...
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Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio BroadcastA picture-book account of one of the most famous pieces of radio history * "Sandwiched between a look at Depression-era radios and a set of fanciful period advertisements, McCarthy delivers a semi-serious account of the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, illustrating both passages...
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Asphalt Gods: An Oral History of the Rucker TournamentThe real basketball deal-the inside story of Harlem's legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous. Earl "The Goat" Manigault. Herman "Helicopter" Knowings. Joe "The Destroyer" Hammond. Richard "Pee Wee" Kirkland. These and dozens of other colorfully nicknamed...
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