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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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Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of IslamIn Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in tandem can breathe new life into the historical study of Muhammad and how his message transformed the world. By placing these sources within the...
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Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of JustinianBetween the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his conquests...
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Mekete: መኸተኣሕተምቲ ሕድሪ፡ ነቲ ካብ ግንቦት 1998 ክሳዕ ሰነ 2000፡ ናጻ ኤርትራ ገና እግራ ከይደልደለ፡ ብረዚን መስዋእቲ ዘረጋገጸቶ ሃገራዊ ልኡላውነት ትርጉም ኣልቦ ንምግባር ዝተፈተነ ሰለስተ ገዚፍ ወራራት ስርዓት ወያነን ነዚ ወራራት'ዚ ኣብ ምፍሻል ደጊሙ ዝተመስከረ ጅግንነታዊ መኸተ ህዝቢ ኤርትራን ሓይልታት ምክልኻሉን ንምንጽብራቕ፡ እዛ "መኸተ፡ ካልኣይ...
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A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DebakeyHe has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease,...
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335th Assault Helicopter Company: What We Did After The Vietnam WarVance Gammons was the Company Commander of the 335th Assault Helicopter Company in an era like no other: the Vietnam War. At the time, none of the Cowboys--as they were called then and today--knew what would become of their lives if they were lucky...
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The Victoria History of Shropshire: WemThe township of Wem lies on the North Shropshire Plain, about nine miles north of Shrewsbury. The centre of a much larger medieval manor and parish, the township consists of the small medieval market town and its immediate rural hinterland. Anglo-Saxon settlements existed in...
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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, Now a Major Motion PictureNow a major motion picture. This is the first time that those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan. They describe the experiences that brought them...
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Stories from a Rearview MirrorStories from a Rearview Mirror follows the life of a boy, raised at the bank of the Danube River after World War II. This covers seventy years of some of the most turbulent events in history: fascist and communist dictatorships, revolutions and wars, and...
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Gholson Brothers in The Thick of It: True Stories of Early Texas as Told by Two Who Lived ItGholson Brothers in The Thick of It: True Stories of Early Texas as Told by Two Who Lived It is Donna Gholson Cook's fourth book. Donna is a sixth-Generation Texan and Great-Granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin Gholson. Sam and Frank Gholson were born in the...
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To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy DaguerreotypesTo Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty--men and women of African descent who were enslaved in...
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A History of Christian-Muslim RelationsChristians and Muslims comprise the world's two largest religious communities. This book looks at the history of their relationship - part peaceful co-existence and part violent confrontation - from their first encounters in the medieval period up to the present. It emphasises the theological,...
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Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New YorkEarly twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the...
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Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing NationBetween the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" as a...
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Radical Black Theatre in the New DealBetween 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated "Negro Units" set up under the FTP, African American artists took...
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Strangers No More: Syrians in the United States, 1880-1900Syrian/Lebanese immigration to the United States began only in 1878, but by 1900, Syrian men and women had settled in every state and territory, from Alabama to Wyoming. First traveling 5,000 miles to reach New York, these wanderers peddled their way to the furthest...
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The Cat in Ancient EgyptA definitive and richly illustrated account of cats in Egyptian life, religion, and art True aristocrat of domestic animals, the cat has a distinguished ancestry. Most modern cats are thought to be descended from the cats of ancient Egypt, so these beautiful and engaging...
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Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of RagsThe history of modern-day old clothes recycling begins with a thing called shoddy. Starting in the early 1800s, shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool, and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling. Old rags and...
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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century EnglandIn October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the...
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Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain WorldA series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists' ongoing quest to understand the quantum world. The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that...
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Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at WarPatriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger's first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and imprisonment in Laos during the Vietnam War. CDR Bedinger recounts a tale of heroism, endurance, and the shared struggle in the...
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