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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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Dialogues Concerning Two New SciencesThis title includes an introduction by Antonio Favaro. Italian astronomer and philosopher GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) is unquestionably one of the most influential forces upon the modern understanding of the physical world. But even few armchair scientists have discovered his writing in his own words....
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Destruction Of Black Civilization: A Comprehensive Journey through Black History and StrugglesEmbark on a captivating journey through the corridors of time with "Destruction of Black Civilization." From the awe-inspiring birth of ancient African societies to the revolutionary spirit of the 1970s and the challenges and triumphs of the 21st century, each chapter unfolds like a...
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Destination MacaoFor the third in his acclaimed Destination series, Paul French journeys to the former Portuguese enclave of Macao, for him as much a place of the imagination as of reality. Constantly portrayed as the louche, sinful sister of Hong Kong, it was also a...
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Demos Rising: Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800-1850A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In...
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Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United StatesPrivate money, public good, and the original fight for control of America's energy industry. Until the 1930s, financial interests dominated electrical power in the United States. That changed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal which restructured the industry. The government expanded public ownership,...
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Democracy: From Ancient Greece to the American DreamA democracy is a form of government in which ordinary people take part in running their country and is the bedrock of many Western governments. But how does this idea work in action? This fascinating title looks at democracy, its history, and its place...
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Delacroix's Moroccans: Art and MasculinityThe Women of Algiers in Their Apartment is arguably Eug?ne Delacroix's best-known work from his trip to Morocco in 1832, and the attention scholars have paid to it has obscured a crucial fact about Delacroix's Moroccan subjects: most of his paintings of North Africa...
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Dehydrating Foods, Fruits, Vegetables, Fish and Meats: The New Easy, Economical and Superior Method of Preserving All Kinds of Food Materials, With aThis 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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Decoding the Osirian Myth: A Transcultural Reading of Plutarch's NarrativeThe earliest written references to the Osirian myth-complex appeared already in the Pyramid Text spells (c. 2400-2300 BCE). The most complete exposition of this ancient Egyptian myth is, however, found in the Greek treatise On Isis and Osiris, in which the 2nd-century CE Platonist...
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Decisions at Forts Henry and Donelson: The Twenty One Critical Decisions That Defined the BattlesThe Battles of Forts Henry and Donelson took place in February of 1862 and were early indicators of the success the US would have in the Civil War's Western Theater. Due to Kentucky's neutrality at the time, Brig. Gen. Daniel S. Donelson was instructed...
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David HammonsThe first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons. David Hammons is a collection of essays on the one of the most important living Black artists of our time, David Hammons (b. 1943). Documenting five decades of visual practice from 1982...
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Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in CanadaCulinary Claims explores the complex relationships between wild plants and introduced animals, Indigenous foodways, and Canadian regulations. Blending food studies with environmental history, the book examines how cuisines reflect social and political issues related to cultural representation, restaurants, and food sovereignty.L. Sasha Gora chronicles...
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Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of ScienceIn his lifetime, John Herschel was Britain's best-known natural philosopher, a world celebrity, and arguably the first modern scientist of the generation in which the term itself was invented. The polymath son of William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus and constructor of the world's largest...
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Congo Square: African Roots in New OrleansCongo Square: African Roots in New Orleans comprises the first comprehensive study of one of the New World's most sacred sites of African American memory and community. Beginning in the eighteenth century, enslaved Africans and free people of color gathered in Congo Square on...
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Confessions of a Thug'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential novel of early...
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Codex Sinaiticus: DESCUBRE EL MANUSCRITO B?BLICO M?S ANTIGUO DEL MUNDO: Una gu?a completa de escrituras antiguas y res?menes hist?ricosDescripci?n: Explora el mundo antiguo de los manuscritos b?blicos a trav?s de 'Codex Sinaiticus: Descubriendo el Manuscrito B?blico M?s Antiguo del Mundo.' Esta gu?a revela el viaje de Codex Sinaiticus, un tesoro de textos cristianos primitivos que datan del siglo IV d.C. Aprende sobre...
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Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's NazisFor readers of The MAGA Diaries and Hate in the Homeland, an eye-opening and crucial true story of one man risking his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States.When Scott Payne was growing up, he never envisioned a future...
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Classical Mythology: Captivating Stories of Greek and Roman Gods, Heroes, and Mythological CreaturesExplore Captivating Stories of Greek and Roman Gods, Goddesses and Monsters in this Ultimate Guide to Classical MythologyThis book includes two captivating manuscripts: Greek Mythology: Captivating Greek Myths of Greek Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and Heroes Roman Mythology: A Captivating Guide to Roman Gods, Goddesses,...
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Chrysler's Classic WoodieChrysler's Classic Woodie covers the Town & Country sedans, hardtops and wagons. From the real woodies to the plastic woodies. it is filled with interesting facts, photos and nostalgia. An in dept, close-up look at a very special car. A must for the restorer,...
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Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian CountryWhen the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people-the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation...
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