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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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Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of TrumpUSA Today BestsellerFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women--also a New York Times bestseller--comes a poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising...
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Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to PowerFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of...
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Supernatural EntertainmentsIn Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism's rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture...
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Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy SchoolThis introductory book by Charles Baudouin covers the psychological subjects of suggestion and autosuggestion in supreme depth. A subject of great interest to Baudouin, Suggestion is shown to compose of a variety of techniques, used in a variety of settings clinical and non-clinical. Baudouin's...
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Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern RichmondA Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond's racial politics since the civil rights era by...
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Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern RichmondA Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond's racial politics since the civil rights era by...
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Striving: Adventures of a Female Journalist in a Man's World, a True StoryReaders who loved the fictional Jo March in Little Women will love this thrilling memoir by New York Times journalist Jo Thomas, a real-life Jo March who refused to give up when men said journalism was not for a woman. Jo was a young...
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Staten IslandTake a virtual ride on the Staten Island Ferry, back when the fare was just 5 cents. With over 200 rare and historic images, the curious story of Staten Island comes to life, revealing a fascinating history.Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of...
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Spartan Negotiation: Sales Secrets from History's Most Epic NegotiationsWhat can we learn from history's most powerful negotiators? Patrick Henry Hansen's Spartan Negotiation draws on history's most compelling moments--Ho Chi Min's tactics at the Paris Peace Talks, Sir Francis Drake's countertactics against the Spanish Armada, Michelangelo's defiance of Pope Julius I, and more―to...
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South KoreaSouth Korea is a country where new and old exist side by side. From K-pop and K-dramas to the traditional customs and rituals that have shaped the country's history, this volume explores the unique and fascinating aspects of Korean society. Readers learn about the...
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Someone Else's Empire: British Illusions and American HegemonySomeone's Else's Empire coolly reassesses Britain's relationship with the United States. Elite descriptions of Britain's position in the world ('punching above our weight') are untenable, Tom Stevenson argues. Yet there is a refusal, in most parts of society, to examine the assumptions behind them....
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Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep SouthSlave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the same time, the...
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Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and InnovationsThis volume presents studies of the mobilisation of practices for health and spiritual well-being in various regions and times across Asia. The chapters use a common structure to situate these practices within their regions and times, demonstrating how they circulated across religious, medical and...
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Sipri Yearbook 2023: Armaments, Disarmament and International SecurityThe SIPRI Yearbook is an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, and armed conflicts and conflict...
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Shreveport Martyrs of 1873: The Surest Path to HeavenIn the autumn of 1873, one of the worst yellow fever epidemics in U.S. history swept through Shreveport. As the deadly scourge claimed a quarter of the town's population, the dedicated efforts of five missionary priests offered a call to hope, even as they...
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Shipwrecks of Massachusetts BayMassachusetts Bay stretches along the rocky coast and dangerously sandy shoals from Cape Ann to Cape Cod and gives the Bay State its distinctive shape and the Atlantic Ocean one of its largest graveyards. Author and longtime diver Thomas Hall guides us through the...
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Sherman's March Through the CarolinasIn retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever...
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Shanghai Demimondaine: From sex worker to society matronShanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine Murray was one of its stars - until her patron Edmund Toeg convinced her to leave the high class brothel where she...
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Settling Ohio: First Peoples and BeyondScholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. The Ohio Valley possesses some of the most resource-rich terrain in the world. Its settlement by...
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Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery: The African American History of America's Most Hallowed GroundFrom its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal...
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