History
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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Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One DirectionThe collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes...
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Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One DirectionThe collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes...
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Event-Cities 5: PoeticsAn essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways. Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting recent built and...
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Euripides and Quotation CulturePresenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture.Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a selective survey of ways in which Euripidean tragedy was quoted within antiquity, both in social...
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Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/PalestineTraces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and Palestinians For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. It is neither democratic nor authoritarian, with rights and...
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En el Principio: El Origen De Religi?nTodas las creencias religiosas tuvieron un comienzo. Alguien, en alg?n momento, en alg?n lugar, surgi? la idea. Puede haber sido una epifan?a, una invenci?n de necesidad, o simplemente una idea descabellada. Independientemente de la fuente de inspiraci?n, una persona o un peque?o grupo de...
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Encinitas: Our History and PeopleAn illustrated history of Encinitas, California, from prehistory to the modern day. The publication features numerous historical and contemporary photographs and images, by authors Carolyn Roy Cope, Ray Filanc and Garth Murphy.Author: Carolyn Roy Cope, Ray Filanc, Garth MurphyPublisher: Ledge MediaPublished: 07/26/2024Pages: 112Binding Type:...
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Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian WorldExplores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century IndiaEmpire of Contingency explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India--a period during which Portuguese imperial ambitions were struggling for survival, while...
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Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist PilgrimXuanzang (600/602-664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his transmission and translation of hundreds of Buddhist texts, and his training of a generation of masters...
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Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian SerfdomIn this sequel to his landmark study, historian Peter Kolchin compares the transition to freedom after American emancipation with the Russian Great Reforms "An enlightening comparative history. . . . Often revelatory for those who may think of the emancipation of enslaved Americans as...
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El rastro del jud?o a trav?s de los tiemposUno de los signos m?s caracter?sticos y significativos de la hostilidad de los jud?os hacia los europeos es su odio al cristianismo. Rosenberg da muestras de este odio a partir del Talmud, as? como de la obra llamada Toledot Yeshu, que pretende dar cuenta...
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Electric OpAn English/French bilingual volume that traces the enduring legacy of geometric abstraction through the last six decades of electronic art and culture.One of the most popular artistic styles of the twentieth century, Op art transformed European geometric abstraction into a global phenomenon in the...
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El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval MercenaryExploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the layers of myth to reveal the real-life historical figure. El Cid was perhaps the most famous warrior involved in the indiscriminate fighting--irrespective of religion--on the...
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Education's Not the PointEducation's Not the Point: Why Schools Fail to Train Children's Minds and Nurture Their CharactersThese essays are a "must read" for parents concerned about their children's education. John Taylor Gatto gives some insights into the "dumbed-down" nature of modern schools, the men behind modern...
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Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and OurselvesWhat we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what is good. Eating...
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Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today"An extensive overview of the drug trade in the Americas and its impact on politics, economics, and society throughout the region. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "A first-rate update on the state of the long-fought hemispheric 'war on drugs.' It is particularly timely, as...
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DronesThis book describes the history, features, and uses of drones. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, sidebars, comprehension questions, a glossary, an...
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Dreaming as One: Poetry, Poets, and Community in Bolinas, California, 1967-1980Bolinas, a small coastal town north of San Francisco, became a haven for poets and writers seeking an alternative lifestyle and creative environment away from the urban centers of the late 20th Century. Kevin Opstedal delves into the lives and works of this unique...
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Dr. Beare's Daughter: Growing Up Adopted, Adored, and Afraid"As if You Were Our Own"It was 1947 in Celina, Ohio, when Dr. Ralph Beare and his wife, Lou, childless and in their early forties, adopted a four-and-a-half-month-old orphan from a Home in nearby Dayton. They named her "Janice Lucinda." "Janice" because it couldn't...
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Dirt, Shame, Status: Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Bible and the Ancient WorldA scholarly examination of same-sex sexuality in the Bible in the context of the ancient world Scriptural prohibitions of same-sex sexual acts (so-called "clobber passages") are often used as prooftexts to support the oppression of LGBT communities in the West today. However, such interpretation...
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