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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Una Historia Develada. Juan Masó Parra Y Las Luchas Por La Independencia de CubaThis book is the product of an investigation that, with greater or lesser intensity, lasted over twenty-five years and extended to a dozen countries. Juan Mas Parra is perhaps the most controversial figure produced during the nineteenth-century Cuban fight for independence and, at the...
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Ultimate Sticker Book: Washington, D.C.: More Than 60 Reusable Full-Color Stickers [With Stickers]Featuring Washington's most spectacular sights, this colorful sticker book is perfect as a child's travel guide, a souvenir for family trips, or an opportunity to learn more about our nation's capital. Also features a map of the National Mall and a game of DC...
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Twas the Night Before Solstice: A story about the natural origins of Western Holiday TraditionsDo YOU know why Santa comes down a chimney? Or what red spotted psychedelic amanita mushrooms have to do with Christmas? We borrowed the cadence from the beloved holiday poem- one certainly written by someone else than the author who gets all the credit-...
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Truth's Victory Over Error: A Commentary on the Westminster Confession of FaithNot just a history book, these lectures, delivered soon after the Westminster confession was written in 1647, reveal the issues of that day with relevant application to today's errors, because many of the errors refuted within its pages have surfaced again in the 21st...
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Truth, Art and Reconciliation: the Winds of Change projectThe "Winds of Change" series of watercolour paintings by Daniel Elliott - a Stz'uminus Elder who is a healer and teacher in First Nations communities. The paintings depict the beauty and power of Indigenous culture and community, along with the ongoing trauma of colonization....
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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the Cia, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic AgeThe author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs. Berlin 1945. Following...
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To Ride the WindMany years ago, a small aircraft was attempting to fly from North America to Italy. It got into difficulty and had to crash land in Co. Clare, Ireland. This is the story of how two young brothers saw the crash and got to meet...
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Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American WestThe explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas...
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The World's Largest Prison: The Story of Camp LawtonWhen it opened in October 1864, Camp Lawton was called "the world's largest prison." Operational only six weeks, this stockade near Millen, Georgia, was evacuated in the face of advancing Federal troops under General Sherman. In that brief span of time, the prison served...
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James CookFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July...
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The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War VirginiaWith The Weaker Sex in War, Kristen Brill shows how white women's wartime experiences shaped Confederate political culture--and the ways in which Confederate political culture shaped their wartime experiences. These white women had become passionate supporters of independence to advance the cause of Southern...
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The Trouble with Kenya: McKenzian BlueprintThe McKenzian Blueprint.Some lines are short; some lines are long. All lines are variable. Some appear parallel but connect in latency. Some appear linear. When held against the light they reveal dependence or independence; Freedom or constraints; Empowerment or strife; Subjugation or Justice.The Trouble...
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The Top Ten Diseases of All TimeInfectious diseases have been with us for millennia and continue to pose a threat, from the irritation of flu season to the potential extinction of our species. We instinctively fear them and alter our behaviour as a result. The reason we bury bodies six...
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The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century AndesThis new book tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his travels through the northern Andes in the 1860s and 1870s evoked both enormous hostility and widespread adulation. A combination of narrative and analysis, the book documents Perdomo's...
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The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave TradeJoining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors--the last...
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The Struggle for Sea Power (Yesterday's Classics)Book IV in The Story of the World series, by M. B. Synge, "The Struggle for Sea Power" focuses on the age of empire and world colonization. The histories of European colonies in America, Australia, South Africa, and India are related. Also covered are...
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The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social DemocracyIn The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking...
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The Stars Shone on Philadelphia: The 1934 Negro National League ChampionsIn 1934, Ed Bolden's Philadelphia Stars joined the new Negro National League II (NNL2), which had been founded one year earlier. After fending off their intrastate-rivals, the Pittsburgh Crawfords, the Stars claimed the NNL2's second-half championship and faced the first-half champions for the title....
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The Star, The Saint And The City: How Sam Brannan's Newspaper Heralded The Gold Rush and Created San FranciscoSan Francisco has always been a magnet. From Gold Seekers to Flower Children to Tech Wizards, The City has attracted dreamers and doers. Less well known in The City's colorful history: How San Francisco began as a colony of religious pilgrims. How the first...
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The Spirit of Methodism: From the Wesleys to a Global Communion"I felt my heart strangely warmed." That was how John Wesley described his transformational experience of God's grace at Aldersgate Street on May 24, 1738, an event that some mark as the beginning of the Methodist Church. Yet the story of Methodism, while clearly...
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