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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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The Gentleman from OhioLouis Stokes was a giant in Ohio politics and one of the most significant figures in the U.S. Congress in recent times. When he arrived in the House of Representatives as a freshman in 1969, there were only six African Americans serving. By the...
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The French Revolution & Napoleonic Era for Kids through the lives of royalty, rebels, and thinkersThe late 18th century brought the Age of Revolutions in both Europe and the New World. The American Revolution was followed by the French Revolution and a number of other uprisings on both sides of the Atlantic. This turbulent era lasted until the late...
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The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust SurvivorThe unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth.Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade...
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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil WarHow partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and...
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-BurglarArsène Lupin is an audacious crook who, using his powers of deduction, commits untraceable crimes. Witty, cunning and endlessly charming, follow Lupin's colourful adventures as he rights the rich's wrongs and gives back to the poor. In a charming combination of Sherlock Holmes and...
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The Ethiopian Bible: A journey through scriptures"The Ethiopian Bible: A Journey Through Scriptures" by Jonah Synder is a profound exploration of the rich tapestry of religious wisdom embedded in the ancient scriptures of Ethiopia. This meticulously researched and beautifully written book unveils a treasure trove of spiritual insights, providing readers...
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The Elements of Avicenna's PhysicsThis study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to understand his contribution against the developments within the preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate his philosophy as such by emphasising...
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The Eighties: A ReaderThe America of the 1980s is often caricatured as a time of yuppie greed and self-absorption. But what was driving that decades rampant pursuit of individual pleasure? What were the cultural forces behind Madonna's "Material Girl" and Oliver Stone's Wall Street? These fascinating essays,...
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The Effect of Tropical Light on White MenAn investigation of memory, both personal and national, that broadens the dialogue on colonialism, complicity, and cultural property. In March 2001, artist and writer Catherine Lord returned to the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island of middling size halfway along the Caribbean archipelago, one of...
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The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America ForeverIn 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already felt in England and elsewhere: beneath all the idealism and struggle for freedom was a growing disillusionment...
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The Dollar: How the Us Dollar Became a Popular Currency in ArgentinaOriginally published in Argentina in 2019 and now finally available in English, Luzzi and Wilkis's acclaimed book traces the history of the economic, social, and political relevance of the dollar in Argentina and its popularization over the years.How did the dollar come to play...
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The Darkest CornersThe Darkest Corners documents and explores sculptures by Lena Marie Emrich and an eponymous exhibition. Emrich's sculptures take inspiration from pissabraga or gobbe antibandito, architectural objects that dot Venice's alleyways and corridors. Texts by the curator of the exhibition, Marlene A. Schenk, as well...
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The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and DetectionTurn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. But the City of Light was also a violent place. Criminals eagerly took advantage of the inventive nature of the age--the first getaway car, increasingly dangerous weapons, more creative disguises. The police battled...
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The Cowboy Ike Rude: Riding Into the WindBorn in 1894 in Mangum, a community in what was at the time Oklahoma Territory, Ike Rude would go on to have one of the most remarkable rodeo careers ever recorded. His storied life would include a performance for the Queen of England; acquaintances...
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the HolocaustThe astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir.World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue,...
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The Confederate Secret Service: An Analysis of the Community of the Confederate States of America 1861-1865This booklet is a report on and an analysis of the Confederate Secret Service. Any errors or misinterpretations of referenced sources are strictly those of the author. The author is an experienced intelligence officer, but he also harbors the caution of a typical intelligence...
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The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II: Economic Writings 2Rosa Luxemburg's theoretical masterpiece The second volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism, one of the most important works ever composed on...
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The Changing World of Christianity: The Global History of a Borderless ReligionChristianity has changed. Formerly known as the religion of Europe and North America, it is now a religion of the Global South: Asia, Africa, and Latin America. However, Christianity has never been merely a Western phenomenon - it has always been a borderless religion....
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The Calkins memorial military rosterThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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The Brooklyn Heights PromenadeFeatured in films and on television and used as a backdrop to countless photos, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade offers the public a view that is usually reserved for the rich at the top of a tower. From this one-third-mile stretch, locals and tourists take...
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