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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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Reporters on 9/11Showcases stories of the reporters who faced the horrifying aftermath of the attacks in order to keep the public informed. This book describes the ways journalists rose to the challenge of reporting on the events of 9/11 in real time. Additional features include a...
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Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern FrontAn ordinary German soldier's letters home from Poland and Russia during World War II Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army...
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Reclaiming the Oral Tradition of the African Baptist ChurchIn a narrative built on groundbreaking research, David W. Sparks traces the history of African Baptists in North America, particularly Nova Scotia, in Reclaiming the Oral Tradition of the African Baptist Church. His goal is to recapture and reclaim the oral tradition that once...
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Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819Fantasies of white slavery and the narratives of victimhood they spawn form the foundation of racist ideology. They also obscure the lived experience of trafficked servants and sailors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gunther Peck moves deftly between the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds...
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Queens of Blowing Rock: Eight women who shaped Blowing Rock's destinyBlowing Rock is a mountainous resort town steeped in history. Discover the monumental accomplishments and objectives of eight incredible women who shaped the destiny of Blowing Rock, North Carolina. The village of Blowing Rock, nestled on the crest of the Blue Ridge, has a...
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Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by ComputingWhen electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines' use. Ever since, diverse...
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Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and InterpretationsNow in its fifth edition, this leading reader has been updated to make it even more relevant to the study of contemporary Latin America. With its innovative combination of primary and secondary sources and editorial analysis, this text is designed to stimulate critical thinking...
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Prisoners of Class: A Historical Memoir of the Khmer Rouge RevolutionThe remarkable early account of life in Pol Pot's Cambodia, now available in English translation for the first time"...among the earliest, most detailed, and most vividly rendered accounts of the Khmer Rouge revolution...The book, available to English readers for the first time in Matthew...
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Pride and Fall: The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014A detailed new account of the British military campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, based on the experiences of those who served. On 11 September 2001 19 al-Qaeda-inspired jihadists hijacked four aircraft and mounted the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The outrage triggered...
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Pre-Columbian Contact Between the Americas and OceaniaThis book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, trans-Pacific contact theories between the Americas and Oceania have been discussed in various forms since the sixteenth...
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Pragmatic Vision: Obama and the Enactment of the Affordable Care ACTOn March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, providing every American with the opportunity to have guaranteed health care coverage. The Affordable Care Act--frequently referred to as Obamacare--is almost synonymous with Obama's presidential legacy and...
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PortlandA pictoral history and moving tribute to the people of Portland's spirit, drive and ability to overcome adversity from the last 130 years.Portland is often associated with the mythological phoenix, the animal that rises out of the ashes of its apparent death. Life here...
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Pop's WarMy father, Major Cyrus E. Manierre Jr., a West Point graduate, was selected to be one of the "Jeds" to parachute into Occupied France, train and assist the local Resistance forces (The Maquis).Operation Jedburgh was a clandestine operation during World War II in which...
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Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in ItalyMore than just the beloved base ingredient of so many of our favorite dishes, the tomato has generated both profound riches and controversy in its farming, processing, exchange, and consumption. It is a crop infused with national pride and passion for those who grow...
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Playing with the Best: One Man's Journey Through the Golden Age of SportsA biography of Walter French, a man who played for both a World Series winner and NFL Championship team.Before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, there were only nineteen men, throughout history, who played in the Major Leagues of baseball and in the National Football...
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Piss and Light: Critical Essays of Baruch D. KirschenbaumThis book reprints the critical essays of esteemed art historian Baruch D. Kirschenbaum (1931-2024), who taught art history at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1962 to 2001, including terms as head of the Art History department and chair/dean of the Liberal Arts...
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Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's SeatA fascinating history of how the automotive industry and consumers battled to define what women wanted in a car.Since the commercial introduction of the automobile, US automakers have always sought women as customers and advertised accordingly. How, then, did car culture become so masculine?...
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Pies Descalzos: Una Historia de Hiroshima / Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of HiroshimaMiedo, muerte y destrucci?n: regresa en una nueva edici?n el cl?sico de culto Pies descalzos, una oda a todos los supervivientes del bombardeo de Hiroshima. La historia de Gen es la de un superviviente que nos muestra, a trav?s de su mirada, c?mo su...
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Pharaoh's BoatWith poetic language and striking illustrations, Weitzman tells the story of how one of the greatest boats of ancient Egypt came to be built-and built again.In the shadow of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the most skilled shipwrights in all of Egypt are building...
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Peripatos: A History of Ancient AristotelianismWith the exception of Paul Moraux's Die Aristotelismus bei den Griechen (in German), the most recent books on the history of ancient Aristotelianism are H. Balthussen 2016 (The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs) and A. Falcon 2018 (Aristotelismo). Both works do not follow the chronological order...
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