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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Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab ThoughtHow to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around capitalism and democracy, considerations about women, gender, and childrearing emerged as essential...
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Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial PanjabOne of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward...
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King Leopold's Letter: Conquest Through Christ"Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering, and encouraging your followers to love poverty, like "Happier are the poor because they will inherit the heaven" and, "It's very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God." You...
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Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in MississippiAfter the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, no state fought longer or harder to preserve segregated schools than Mississippi. This massive resistance came to a crashing halt in October 1969 when the Supreme Court ruled in Alexander v. Holmes Board of Education...
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Journal De M. L'abbé Dorsanne, Docteur De Sorbonne ... Contenant Tout Ce Qui S'est Passé À Rome & En France, Dans L'affaire De La Constitution UnigeniThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Jewish Languages and Book CultureA fascinating collection examining the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters. From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers an extraordinary insight into the linguistic...
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Jewish Country HousesAn exploration of the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections, and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed, and shaped them. Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy....
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Italian Graphic Design: Culture and Practice in Milan, 1930s-60sThis book tells the story of graphic designers in Milan from the 1930s to the 1960s. Focusing on design education, everyday practice, organisational strategies, mediating channels and modernism, it contributes to our understanding of the role graphic design has played in the history of...
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Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and NevisA close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and Nevis, expresses a unique mode of relation in the postcolonial Caribbean. In Island Time, ethnomusicologist Jessica Swanston Baker examines wylers, a musical form from St. Kitts and...
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Irish and Scottish Art, C. 900-1900: Survivals and RevivalsAs evidenced by the famed Book of Kells and monumental high crosses, Scotland and Ireland have long shared a distinctive artistic tradition. The story of how this tradition developed and flourished for another millennium through survival, adaptation and revival is less well known. Some...
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Iraq and the Politics of Oil: An Insider's PerspectiveWas the Iraq war really about oil? As a senior oil advisor for the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and briefly as minister of oil, Gary Vogler thought he knew. But while doing research for a book about his experience in Iraq,...
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Iran's Ministry of Intelligence: A Concise HistoryThe first book about Iran's shadowy Ministry of IntelligenceSteven R. Ward provides an accessible overview of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and its focus on tracking and countering domestic dissent and perceived foreign-inspired sedition. The ministry's checkered record of effective intelligence operations includes a...
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Intra Muros: Within the Walls of HeavenRebecca Ruter Springer's 1898 vision of heaven was received as she lay unconscious suffering from a near-fatal illness. For well over a hundred years her inspiring descriptions of reunions with her family and friends on the other side have given hope to many who...
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Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim...
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In The Matter of Black Lives: Womanist ProseIn the Matter of Black Lives: Womanist Prose by Arica L. Coleman is a brilliant, energetic, and energizing meditation on Black history, American History, and the past decade of tumultuous, inspiring, radical and marginal change in this country we call America. Coleman is a...
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In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden FoodDeliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages--and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world. From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras, Stewart...
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Interior Sketches III: More ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sitesTake an artistic tour of -Eastern Interior Alaska -historic sites. In the third book of his Interior Sketches series, Fairbanks artist and writer, Ray Bonnell, explores even more historic sites. Join him as he journeys to locations like World War II-era Ladd Field in...
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In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875-1974In Search of Admiration and Respect examines the institutionalization of Chinese cultural diplomacy in the period between high imperialism and the international ascendance of the People's Republic of China. During these years, Chinese intellectuals and officials tried to promote the idea of China's cultural...
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Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the AndesFrom majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the...
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Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt's IncarceratedA groundbreaking collection of writings by political prisoners in Egypt, offering a unique lens on the global rise of authoritarianism during the last decade. This book contains letters, poetry, and art produced by Egypt's incarcerated from the eruption of the January 25, 2011, uprising....
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