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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Greetings from RichmondStep back in time to enjoy nearly 250 color postcard views of Virginia's capital city and its architecture as it looked during the first half of the 20th century. Explore eleven distinct areas of the city including its oldest sections, Shockoe Valley, Church Hill,...
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Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge ProductionNever has the world been as rich in scientific knowledge as it is today. But what are its main sources? In accessible and engaging fashion, Global Mega-Science examines the origins of this unprecedented growth of knowledge production over the past hundred and twenty years....
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German Life in WWII and Beyond: How Civilians Survived and RebuiltThis book is not your typical history book! No! In a novelistic style, Dr. Warg shows through a fictional group of men-the "Stammtisch"-how the lower and higher middle class civilians mull over the historical events during the political and economical unstable years after WWI,...
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Gerhard Richter: Foricano: 26 DrawingsGerhard Richter's newest facsimile-like artist's book is focused on a single work comprising twenty-six drawings in graphite and pencil "[Richter's drawings] are of stringent individuality and recognizably by Richter's hand, not based on their signature style but rather because they make their theme the...
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George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety: Nudging Towards GodContemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of similar circumstances, where there is reliable, substantial, and relevant information about the situation, and where they will get prompt feedback about the effect of their...
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Frommer's New York City Day by DayFully re-researched and updated, Frommer's New York City Day By Day allows users to map their own adventure with a variety of suggested daily itineraries, vibrant photos, and multiple maps.This portable, up-to-date guide is all about maximizing the time you have to spend in...
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From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in ArkansasOn the morning of Election Day 2010, Democrats occupied three of the four Arkansas seats in the US House of Representatives, both US Senate seats, all state constitutional offices, and decisive majorities in both chambers of the Arkansas General Assembly. By the time votes...
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Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless SaintAn award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the myths One of the most famous figures in Christian history, Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) was revered as a miracle worker during his life and quickly canonized after his death....
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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American PoliticsFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had...
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Forrest's Fighting Preacher:: David Campbell Kelley of TennesseeEvery leader needs a trusted confidant. For Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the Civil War's greatest military minds, that man was David Campbell Kelley. Kelley began adulthood in the clergy, serving for two years as a missionary in China and returning homeAuthor: Michael R....
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Folklife and Superstition: The Luck, Lore and Worldviews of Prairie HomesteadersThe homesteading era on the Canadian Prairies (1867-1914) was a dynamic period of history, when hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children, migrating primarily from northwestern and eastern Europe, descended nascent provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Some were lured by the promise...
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Focal Points: Bruce NaumanBruce Nauman's work surveyed by the former Museum of Modern Art curator who organized his major 1995 retrospectiveAmerican artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) has worked across a wide range of mediums including neon, sculpture, video, installation, performance and drawing to pursue his question of...
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F?lix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentation in ConcreteThis book is a collection of essays centers on Félix Candela's departure from Mexico City and arrival in Chicago during the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. Felix Candela, one of the most important and iconic architects of the 20th century,...
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Fixing the Liturgy: Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516A new history of the medieval Dominican liturgy, from the perspective of women's communities In Fixing the Liturgy, Claire Taylor Jones opens a window into the daily practice of medieval liturgy, uncovering the astounding breadth of knowledge, the deep expertise, and the critical thinking...
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Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain: Defining a Democracy, 1960-PresentThis book explores the evolution of Spanish feminism in the context of European feminisms and institutions from the 1960s to recent times. Beginning with Secci?n Femenina, the official Francoist women's organization, Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain traces the interplay between...
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Family Portraits: Children in Impressionist ArtThe impressionist artists accorded great importance to family life, often portraying their own mothers, wives, and offspring in scenes of maternity and childhood. The impressionist masters were known for their close relationships; peers, family, art dealers, and patrons all featured regularly in their artworks,...
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Faith, Freedom, and the First ThanksgivingEmbark on a journey with the Pilgrims during their perilous first years in the New World. In this captivating bedtime story, you will learn of the providential encounter with the Native American Tisquantum (Squanto) and the pivotal social transformation that saved Plymouth Colony from...
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Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta: Vyāsatīrtha's Defence of Realism in the Nyāyāmr̥taThis book focuses on discussions of metaphysics and epistemology in early modern India found in the works of the South Indian philosopher Vyāsatīrtha (1460-1539). Vyāsatīrtha was pivotal to the ascendancy of the Mādhva tradition to intellectual and political influence in the Vijayanagara Empire. This...
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Environmental Thought in the Graeco-Roman World: 'Ecological' Sensitivity, 'Sustainable' Behaviour and 'Biodiversity'. a Historical PerspectiveThe debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book. It investigates certain forms of environmental interrelation and 'ecological' sensitivity in the Graeco-Roman world. The notions of environmental depletion, exploitation and loss of plant species, and the...
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Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's ĀmuktamālyadaExamining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem Āmuktamālyada, Ilanit Loewy Shacham showcases the groundbreaking worldview that this often-overlooked poem embodies. Krsnadevaraya (r.1509-1529) ruled over the Vijayanagara Empire during its heyday, and his monumental...
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