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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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Robinson Crusoe"Och sålunda lämnade jag ön, enligt loggboken den 19 december år 1686, sedan jag hade vistas där i tjugosju år, två månader och nitton dagar. Jag befriades ur denna andra fångenskap samma dag i månaden som jag flydde i storbåten från morerna i Salé....
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Monet. Le Triomphe de l'ImpressionnismeÀ part Turner, aucun artiste n'a comme Claude Monet (1840-1926) travaillé autant à capturer la lumière sur la toile. De tous les impressionnistes, celui dont Cézanne disait qu'il n'était qu'un oeil, mais bon Dieu, quel oeil! est le seul à ne jamais s'être écarté...
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Charles Huber: France's Greatest Arabian ExplorerThe French-Alsatian geographer Charles Huber (1847-84) achieved fame as one of the 19th century's great Arabian explorers. On his two heroic journeys between 1880 and 1884, he pioneered the scientific mapping of inland Arabia and made some of the earliest records of ancient North...
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Images of the Civil War In West VirginiaThis amazing book has over 475 photographs, images, and drawings - all made during the Civil War or very soon thereafter, and all related to West Virginia. This is the largest collection of images ever put together on West Virginia during the war. In...
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Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917)Through extensive archival research in eight different languages, Revolutionary Social Democracy introduces readers to the politics and practices of socialists in Tsarist Russia's imperial borderlands. These parties fought for democracy and workers' power across the entire span of the Russian Empire--from the factories of...
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Generation Revolution: On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle EastA New York Times Notable Book of the Year "An excellent social history of Egypt's persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes." --New York Times Book Review Generation Revolution unravels the complex forces shaping...
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Creating the Boston Police: Francis Tukey and the Invention of Modern Crime FightingThe Boston Police Department was formed by a man who had twice failed in business, ran a bar in the poorest district of Boston, and was charged with two assaults. When Francis Tukey became City Marshal in 1846, he faced off against some of...
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The Key to the Shenandoah Valley: Geography and the Civil War Struggle for WinchesterDuring the Civil War, the Shenandoah Valley was the scene of 326 engagements, many taking place around Winchester. The city was occupied and evacuated 72 times and five major battles were fought in the vicinity, including First and Second Kernstown and Cedar Creek. Geography...
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A History of European Economic ThoughtA History of European Economic Thought grafts the history of economic thought onto Global History by showing how significant economic ideas have influenced the process of Europe's formation from the very beginning to the present day. This work combines two classical stories that until...
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Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone FictionPrecarious Passages unites literature written bymembers of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizingnovels as simply "African American," "Black Canadian,""Black British," or "postcolonial African Caribbean," thisbook takes an integrative approach: it argues that fiction creates and sustainsa sense of a wider African diasporic...
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Is Life Worth Living?: Finding Your Life's Purpose in Difficult TimesIs Life Worth Living? is a tiny book about some of life's big questions. How do you find meaning in your life? Why do people fall into despair and depression? And how can these feelings be overcome? Almost fifty years before Viktor Frankl's Man's...
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Greek Mythology: Discover the Fascinating World of Greek Gods, Heroes, Myths & FolkloreAre You Curious About How the Ancient Greeks Lived and What they Believed?Most of us have heard one way or another, a story of a Greek god. Greek mythology is not only for children, but even for adults who would like a respite from...
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Solzhenitsyn and the Right"During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be." -Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne of the most famous anti-Communist...
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La guerre des monnaies III: Les frontières de la haute financeLa monnaie, qui a été négligée par les historiens, est précisément la clé qui permet de résoudre de nombreuses énigmes historiques, la boussole qui permet de discerner le labyrinthe de la réalité d'aujourd'hui, et le télescope qui permet de découvrir la route vers l'avenir....
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The Song of Bertrand Du GuesclinBertrand du Guesclin was one of the main architects of the recovery of France. From humble beginnings he rose to become one of the great heroic figures of French history. This is the first English translation of Cuvelier's epic poem about him. Bertrand du...
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Creating a Chicana/o Red Road to Decolonization and Aztlan: a Roadmap towards a Native Identity & WorldviewThe book reveals the Universal and Cosmic Love of the Red Road. The Red Road is the philosophy/worldview/religion of the native Indian tribes/pueblos of North and South America. This worldview promotes integration with Mother Earth and the cosmos to achieve harmony within eternally evolving...
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Island FIshing: History and Seascape of Marine Harvesting in the San Juan Islands amid the Salish SeaThe San Juan Islands, in the heart of the Salish Sea, have been a fishing destination since time immemorial. From Coast Salish reef netting and tideland harvesting to the era of fish traps, purse seining, and gill netting, follow the many communities of fishers...
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Collecting in the Twenty-First Century: From Museums to the WebAn interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era. Seminal to the rise of human cultures, the practice of collecting is an expression...
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Pre-Sargonic Period: (2700-2350 Bc)The book Pre-Sargonic Period (2700-2350 BC) provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of kings who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia down to the advent of King Sargon of Akkad. Most of the inscriptions come from the city states of Lagsh and Umma; inscriptions from...
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Santa Fe's Fonda: The Story of the Old Inn at the End of the TrailFor the first two centuries of Santa Fe's history, weary wayfarers were out of luck. Not only did the Spanish authorities enforce a strict travel ban on foreign visitors, but there was also no place to stay in the territorial capital. That all changed...
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