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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Quien Fue Harriet Beecher Stowe?Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playwright. Slavery was a major industry in the American South, and Stowe worked with the Underground Railroad to help escaped slaves head north towards freedom. The publication of her book, Uncle...
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Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and Desire in the Anatomical Image, 1700-1900In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were un-men--tionables de-barred from polite conver-sa-tion and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline-ana-to-my-had license to rep-re-sent and nar-rate the in-timate details of the human body-anus and genitals in-clud-ed. Figured with-in the frame of an anatomical plate,...
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Promise: President Obama, Year OneBarack Obama's inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of "Change We Can Believe In" was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system...
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Prince Among SlavesThe extraordinary and consequential biography of Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a Muslim West African prince turned enslaved plantation worker, and his lifelong fight to be free and return home. In 1762, Prince Abdulrahman Sori was born in West Africa's prosperous kingdom of Futa Jallon....
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Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and BushSteven M. Gillon, New York Times bestselling author of America's Reluctant Prince, is back with the story of how WWII shaped the characters and politics of seven American presidents. World War II loomed over the twentieth century, transforming every level of American society and...
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Preparing a Nation?: The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New GuineaPreparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism in Papua New Guinea. To what extent did Australia prepare Papua New Guinea for independence? And what were the policies and the ideologies behind colonial development, implemented after World War...
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Posthumane M?nnlichkeiten: Maskuline Cyborgs Und Queere K?rper in Der Kunst Seit 1990The masculine machine-man, associated with notions of a virile, hyper-muscular male body since the 1980s, is a thing of the past in contemporary art; the author shows this on the basis of representations of male, masculine and queer bodies since the 1990s. While the...
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Politics and Government in Israel, Fourth EditionThis balanced and comprehensive text explores Israeli government and politics from both institutional and behavioral perspectives. After briefly discussing Israel's history, authors Gregory S. Mahler and Reuven Y. Hazan examine the social, religious, economic, cultural, and military contexts within which Israeli politics takes place....
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P?l Teleki (1874-1941): The Life of a Controversial Hungarian PoliticianThis is a revised second edition of the highly praised biography of P?l Teleki by Bal?zs Ablonczy originally released in 2006 in English. Revised and updated by the author this work remains the seminal historical work on the controversial career of the 20th Century...
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Plato The Man And His WorkThis 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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Platformland: An Anatomy of Next-Generation Public ServicesThe aim of most public sector digitization programmes is the status quo, delivered more cheaply. Rather than saving the public from bureaucracy, digital has created new administrative burdens. The public are engaged as consumers in a way that misunderstands the nature of what makes...
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Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1780-1865The standard history of Pittsburgh tells the city\u2019s story from its violent days as an eighteenth-century outpost of empire to the onset of its great age of industrial expansion.Author: Leland BaldwinPublisher: University of Pittsburgh PressPublished: 06/30/1970Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 8.12h x 5.46w x...
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Pinstripe Nation: The New York Yankees in American CultureWhether loved or reviled, the New York Yankees have had an impact on American culture that extends well beyond baseball. Since the early twentieth century, movies, novels, memoirs, pop songs, and even TV sitcoms have either dealt directly with the Bronx club and its...
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Pharaoh: Art and Power in Ancient EgyptCovers three thousand years of history and highlights key pieces from the British Museum's outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquities The rulers of ancient Egypt were not always male, nor always Egyptian. At times, Egypt was divided by civil war, conquered by foreign powers, or...
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Peace Be Upon You: Fourteen Centuries of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Conflict and CooperationIn a narrative that is at once thoughtful and passionate, an award-winning historian reveals the history of peaceful coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews over the course of fourteen centuries until the present day. The harsh reality of religious conflict is daily news, and...
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Patriots in Exile: Charleston Rebels in St. Augustine During the American RevolutionIn the months following the May 1780 capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by combined British and loyalist forces, British soldiers arrested sixty-three paroled American prisoners and transported them to the borderland town of St. Augustine, East Florida--territory under British control since the French and...
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Palestine 1492: A Report BackAuthor: Linda QuiquivixPublisher: Wild Ox BooksPublished: 10/03/2024Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94dISBN: 9781737190042This title is not returnable
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Paideia: The Associate Minister's Training ManualOverseer Dr. Joni Nicole McAllister was born in Brooklyn, New York, to the late John Allen McAllister Sr. and the late Virginia Scott-McAllister. She is the second of eight children who grew up in the South Bronx. The author currently holds both Associate and...
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Outhouse Stories of the Bradshaw Mtns.In Barb Myers latest book Outhouse Stories of the Bradshaw Mtns. Readers will discover some hidden gems that reveal secrets about the melting pot of inhabitants who lived in these mountains since the 1800s. Author: Barb MyersPublisher: Writers Publishing HousePublished: 04/30/2024Pages: 148Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection: Two Volumes Bound in One2924 Hardcover Reprint of 1911 Edition Originally Published in Two Volumes and Now Bound into One. New introduction by Jane Harrison. Two volumes bound in one. In this book E. A. Wallis Budge, one of the world's foremost Egyptologists, focuses on Osiris as the...
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