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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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Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian EcuadorThe Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, they have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as...
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Travels on the St. Johns RiverIn 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the plants, animals, geography, ecology, and native cultures of an...
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Topgun: An American StoryNATIONAL BESTSELLERIf you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book. -- Fox & FriendsOn the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Topgun Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the remarkable inside story of how he and eight other...
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Tlacaelel Remembered: MasterMind of the Aztec Empire Volume 276The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398-1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was "the beginning and origin" of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica. Brother of the first Moteuczoma, Tlacaelel would become "the most powerful, feared, and esteemed man of all that the world had seen up...
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Three Ringling Circus: A History of Sarasota, Florida, and the Famous Ringling BrothersSarasota would not be what it is today without the influence of the Ringling family, particularly John and Mable Ringling and John's brother Charles. Unlike some other entertainers of the era, the Ringling family saw their enterprise as a business and as a way...
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The World War I BookDiscover the key battles, tactics, technologies, and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars." Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold explanatory graphics, The World War I Book explores the...
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The West Virginia Coal Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Mine Wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain, the Largest Labor Uprising in the History of thAuthor: Captivating HistoryPublisher: Captivating HistoryPublished: 10/26/2023Pages: 110Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31dISBN: 9781637169285
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The Vietnam War: A Documentary ReaderThe Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America's conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences. Includes substantial non-American content, including...
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The Twelfth-Century RenaissanceThis volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period c.1050-c.1250 An up-to-date survey of previous historical work in this field, the book provides a useful starting point for those new to this period.Author: R. N. SwansonPublisher:...
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The Things that Make for PeaceThis study offers fresh insight into the place of (non)violence within Jesus' ministry, by examining it in the context of the eschatologically-motivated revolutionary violence of Second Temple Judaism. The book first explores the connection between violence and eschatology in key literary and historical sources...
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The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil RightsThe Spirit and the Shotgun explores the role of armed self-defense in tandem with nonviolent protests in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Confronted with violent attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist terrorists, southern blacks adopted Martin...
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The Sonnets by William Shakespeare.The Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets accredited to William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman....
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The Routledge Atlas of Jewish HistoryThis 9th edition of Martin Gilbert's Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 196 maps, starting with the worldwide migration of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia and coming up into the first decades of the twenty-first century. It presents...
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The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to HebronThe Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as 'an earthquake, ' and its reverberations are still with us. How then did the Right rise to power? What are its origins? Colin Shindler traces this development...
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920We are told that the present moment bears a strong resemblance to Reconstruction, when freedpeople and the federal government attempted to create an interracial democracy in the south after the Civil War. That effort was overthrown and serves as a warning today about violent...
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The Rise and Fall of Jim CrowFrom Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans fought the status quo, acquiring education and land, and building businesses, churches and communities, despite laws designed to segregate, terrorize, and disenfranchise them. White supremacy prevailed, but did not destroy, the spirit of the black...
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The Renaissance: An Enthralling Guide to a Period of Rebirth in Arts, Science and CultureDo the names Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael ring a bell?If so, you are already somewhat familiar with the Renaissance, which saw a rebirth in the arts and science. Great strides were made in several fields, and many men made a name for...
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The Reclining Nude: Agnès Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Nan GoldinThe figure of a woman reclining, in repose, displayed, abandoned, fallen, asleep, or dreaming, returns in the work of women filmmakers and photographers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Filmmakers Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat, and American photographer working in Paris, Nan Goldin, return...
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The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial SocietyHow an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in...
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D.The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D. covers great swathes of time beginning with the earliest written records of the Hebrews, Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and the ancient East, through the rise of the Greeks...
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