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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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The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of HistoryTraces the history and purpose of the legendary trade route between China andByzantium during the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906).Author: John S. MajorPublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 03/08/1996Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.53w x 0.14dISBN: 9780064434683Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.7Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz...
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The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival InvestigationsA Penetrating Exploration of the Soviet Secret Police Apparatus Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society in communist USSR has been difficult to study, and defies our complete...
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The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero: Paperback EditionDelve into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication brought to you by Raeghan Buchanan and Silver Sprocket. The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero by Buchanan is an illustrated roll-call for...
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The Salem Clique: Oregon's Founding BrothersAuthor: Barbara S. MahoneyPublisher: Oregon State University PressPublished: 06/01/2017Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70dISBN: 9780870718915This title is only available via back order
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The Saga of Survival: Armenian Palestinians, the British Mandate and the NakbaThe book depicts the life of the Armenian community during the British Mandate in Palestine. It contributes to the overall narrative about the political and socioeconomic aspects prior to the Nakba and the fundamental changes which have occurred to the indigenous and the uninterrupted...
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The Rome Escape Line: The Story of the British Organization in Rome Assisting Escaped Prisoners-of-War in 1943-44"A brave man and a born story-teller, Sam Derry's account of how he set up the Rome Escape Line in WW2 (which smuggled thousands of Allied soldiers to safety) is a riveting read." Gavin Mortimer, author of David Stirling, The Phoney Major: The Life,...
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The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and CaesarAuthor: Katharina VolkPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00dISBN: 9780691253954
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The Red Vienna SourcebookAn encyclopedic selection of original documents from the Austrian capital's pathbreaking, progressive interwar period, translated and with contextualizing introductions and commentaries. Immediately after World War I, in 1919, the Austrian capital Vienna elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted until 1934. The city's leaders,...
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The Post OfficeThis vintage book contains Rabindranath Tagore's 1912 play, 'The Post Office'. The play revolves around Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle's house by an incurable disease who, inspired by the construction of a local post office, fantasizes about receiving a letter from...
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The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to OkinawaOn December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor and fundamentally changed the course of history; with this one surprise attack, the previously isolationist America was irrevocably thrown into the fray and World War II had begun in earnest....
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern SportsThe story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same...
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The Origins of the Cuban Revolution ReconsideredAnalyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as having merely reacted to U.S. policies or...
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The Origins of European Integration: The Pre-History of Today's European Union, 1937-1951Bringing together political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and contemporary history, this book explores why and how European integration came to pass. It tells a fascinating story of ideals and realpolitik, political dreams and geographical realities, and planning and chaos. Mathieu Segers reveals that the roots...
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The Note-Books of Captain Coignet: the Recollections of a Soldier of the Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard During the Campaigns of the Napoleonic Era--The famous recollections of a soldier of Napoleon's Imperial GuardSeveral English language translations of recollections written by the soldiers of Napoleon's Grande Armee have become famous as they bring the exuberant days of the First Empire of the French vividly back to life. Infantryman...
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The North Carolina Symphony: A HistoryFrom its beginnings during the Great Depression, the North Carolina Symphony has touched the lives of countless Tar Heels. One of the state's premier cultural organizations and the oldest continuously state-supported orchestra in the nation, the ""Suitcase Symphony"" grew from a small group of...
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The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History: Revised EditionThis is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".Author: Colin McEvedyPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 11/03/1992Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.11h x 8.77w x 0.28dISBN: 9780140512496Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorColin McEvedy is the author of The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History; The New...
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The Monster Leviathan: AnarchitectureVisionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture--or anarchitecture--through which we can imagine other and better worlds. Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture--or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts...
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The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on AmericaLas Vegas--the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Power is the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas...
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The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information AgePlacing Alexander the Great's leadership, command skills, and grand strategy within the context of twenty-first century military challenges, and thus showing continuities in leadership and warfare since his time, this volume demonstrates how and why Alexander is relevant to the modern world by emphasizing...
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The Materials of Medieval Painting: The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting2019 Reprint of 1936 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Professor Thompson has written an extremely interesting and valuable book on a subject very rarely dealt with, the materials used by medieval painters, or as he...
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