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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 Moors; a comprehensive descriptionThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century AmericaThe Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed that we had discovered intelligent life on Mars. The Martians--a truly bizarre tale reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, letters, and photographs by bestselling science writer David Baron--begins in the 1890s...
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The Man in the Arena: The Story of an Aviator's Roller-Coaster Ride to the Clouds and BackFly with Captain Tom Cooper on this most incredible roller coaster ride from a rural, Mayberry-ish community in the foothills of North Carolina to the apex of the scheduled airline world.A superb story teller, Captain Cooper takes you on a breathtaking trip with intermediate...
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The Magnificent Bastards: The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marines' Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as "the Magnificent Bastards," struggles to eject NVA...
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a PresidentAn "elegant and illuminating" (Jon Meacham) family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that...
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The Lost Golden City of LuxorWorking near Luxor, Egypt, in 2020, archaeologists made a stunning discovery--the remains of a well-preserved city! Details uncovered within this remarkable find allowed experts to figure out how old the city likely was and who was pharaoh when it was built, among other important...
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The Longest Boundary: Volume 1 - Coast to CoastThis is the only book to tell, in a way that should appeal to both specialised historians and the general reader, the story of how the course of what became the US-Canadian border was agreed, step by step, between 1763 and 1910, and to...
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The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of LivingWe tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up...
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The Light That Is Given: Prophetic Quaker FaithSpeaking from the traditional Quaker claim of inward knowledge of Christ the Light, the author shows her accord with early Friends' writings and the Scriptures they affirmed. Promptings arising from daily readings and personal interactions provide the starting point for many of the book's...
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The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil WarThree major sections of a great historian's last work: I. The Evangelical Basis; II. The Legal Mentality; III. Science-Theoretical and Applied. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History.Author: Perry MillerPublisher: Houghton MifflinPublished: 03/19/1970Pages: 300Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.62w x 0.96dISBN: 9780156519908
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The Lewis ChessmenMade from walrus ivory some time between AD 1150 and 1200, the Lewis Chessmen are iconic artefacts from the early medieval period. This concise book provides a guide to the history of these chess pieces including the story of their discovery in 1831, followed...
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The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield: Hannah's Granddaughter Volume 3'As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of history in the region, just as women today are building their own futures in communities around the world.' - Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Second...
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The Last Man To Die in the American Revolution: The Triumph and Tragedy of John LaurensWashington loved him as a son; Hamilton and Lafayette loved him as a brother. His troops loved him as a daring, caring commanding officer."He had not a fault that I ever could discover said Washington. Clearly John Laurens should not have died. He was...
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The Last Empress of France: The Rebellious Life of Eug?nie de MontijoThe dramatic, untold story of Eug?nie de Montijo, the woman who created haute couture, fought for women's rights, opened France's schools to girls and ruled the country as its last empress, yet today remains almost unknown.Although a nineteenth-century woman, her almost twenty-first century outlook...
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The Kenneth Anderson Omnibus - Vol. 1Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and...
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The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy: Power Sharing, Regionalism, and AuthoritarianismUkraine and Russia are today at opposite points of the political spectrum: Despite 300 years of contact with Russian authoritarian politics, Ukraine's post-independence period has been characterised by pluralism. To explain why and how Ukraine's and Russia's paths diverged, this monograph investigates the century-long...
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The Industrial RevolutionThe Industrial Revolution was a time of great technological progress in Europe and the United States. The scientific developments of the 18th century helped to shape our modern world. These innovations include textile factories, iron smelting, agricultural machinery, canals, and railroads. The lives and...
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The Impact of IslamWhen Islam comes to a land, what happens? In this sweeping and thorough historical overview, Emmet Scott answers that question definitively, illuminating the shockingly devastating effects of Islamic encroachment upon Europe during the Middle Ages. This is history with all the timeliness of today's...
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The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific LowlandsAn exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada. During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Chocó, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here was central to New Granada's economy yet this Pacific frontier in today's...
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The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use ItA vivid account of one of history's most significant events: the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb--based on new research and interviews, timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack. At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945,...
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