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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Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient GreeceA major contribution to the debate over ancient Greek warfare by some of the world's leading scholars Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what...
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No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United NationsA groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United Nations No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces...
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They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian GenocideA definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversary Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the...
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Mysteries of the Mall and Other EssaysA deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How Architecture Works, casts a seasoned critical eye on the modern scene. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting...
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The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple BelieversA bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered...
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern IndiaA Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017 Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set...
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Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian LifeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side...
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Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American RevolutionThe intriguing life story of an unsung hero of the American Revolution from award-winning author Gerald M. Carbone. When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation...
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The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force That Defended the VaticanCharles A. Coulombe's The Pope's Legion tells the amazing adventures of the remarkable multinational force that rallied in defense of the Vatican during the ten-year war of Italian reunification. With Arthurian grandeur the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by...
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A Short History of the Civil War"Stokesbury's rare combination of scholarship and readability merits the highest recommendation."--Booklist In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of America's bloody War Between the States, Harper Paperbacks is republishing A Short History of the Civil War by noted historian James L. Stokesbury with a new...
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African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts . . . It undoubtedly will become the definitive work on African American women's involvement in the mainstream...
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The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia"Meticulously researched, impressively documented, and engrossingly written, . . . [it] contributes to a long-overdue reconception of the New Economic Policy (NEP). . . ." --Choice" . . . a well-organized, sophisticated analysis of the difficulties involved in attempting to reconcile ideology with political,...
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Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade"If you remember the Sixties," quipped Robin Williams, "you weren't there." That was, of course, an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perception--yet time has proven an equally effective hallucinogen. This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness....
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The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition"I have tried to describe a Christianity which is fully compatible with everything we now know, and to indicate why Christians feel privileged to give their lives to it."--Huston SmithIn his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, renowned author, scholar, and...
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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan"Fascinating....A highly readable history of the conflict." --New York Times Book Review In The Great Gamble, a groundbreaking account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the war that contributed greatly to the demise of the USSR,...
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Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest"Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that flourished...
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Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands"Are you an American, or are you not?" This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question at...
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The Emerging Midwest: Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1787-1861". . . agile, ambitious, and complex . . ." --The Journal of Southern History"Etcheson adds a fresh dimension to the history of the Old Northwest by examining the way in which Upland Southerners' regional heritage affected the evolution of political culture in Ohio,...
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The Making of the President 1972" White] revolutionized the art of political reporting." --William F. BuckleyThe Making of the President 1972 is the fourth book in Theodore H. White's landmark series, a riveting account of the 1972 presidential campaign and Richard M. Nixon's precedent-shattering landslide victory. White had made...
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Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies" . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an excellent example of its type."--Discourse & Society"I believe that Rey Chow has written...
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