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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Old Vintage MelbourneAn enchanting collection of annotated historical images and contemporary photographs, revealing the change and development that Melbourne has experienced over the years. In 1835, as he walked the sacred grounds of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations, John Batman...
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Belfast Days: A 1972 Teenage DiaryBelfast 1972. It's the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish 'Troubles', and 16-year-old Eimear O'Callaghan, a Catholic schoolgirl in West Belfast, bears witness in her new diary. What follows is a unique and touching perspective into the daily life of an ordinary teenager coming...
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QuabbinComplete guide the quabbin and surrounding area with photos and maps. History, hiking, fishing, nature viewing and more. This is the definitive history and contemporary explorer's guide to the Quabbin Reservoir. Located in Central Massachusetts, the reservoir is an amazing wilderness with an equally...
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William Hunter - Finding Free Speech: A British Soldier's Son Who Became an Early AmericanIn June 1798, President John Adams signed the now infamous Alien & Sedition Acts to suppress political dissent. Facing imminent personal risks, a gutsy Kentucky newspaper editor ran the first editorial denouncing the law's attempt to stifle the freedom of the press. Almost immediately,...
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Essential Africa Inland Church History: Birth and Growth 1895 - 2015Steeped in rich, though often personally costly history, the Africa Inland Church has been spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ to the peoples of East Africa for more than a century. Join Dr Gehman as he details the birth and growth of the...
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Lacanian Fantasy: The Image, Language and UncertaintyLacanian Fantasy addresses the question of how fantasy developed as a psychological concept, particularly as influenced by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.Kirk Turner moves thematically, from childhood to adulthood, and chronologically, from Freud's earliest theories to Lacan's most complex statements on fantasy towards the...
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Bibliography on Soviet Intelligence and Security ServicesThis annotated bibliography is a valuable tool for research and teaching on Soviet intelligence and security services and its role in the country's domestic and international affairs. It categorizes nearly 500 books, articles, and government documents pertaining to Soviet intelligence.Author: Raymond G. RoccaPublisher: RoutledgePublished:...
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Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 (Web series tie-in)Now a major web series.The 26/11 attacks, as they are now known, is widely regarded as the world's first hybrid terrorist attack. The attackers achieved through this long-drawn siege what Al Qaeda did through the high-visibility mass-casualty attack of 11 September 2001. The response...
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Vespa 75 Years: The Complete History - Updated EditionApril 1946: the first 15 examples of the Vespa leave the Piaggio factory. This was the beginning of a unique and unrepeatable story, that of a revolutionary two-wheeled vehicle that as well as leaving an indelible trace in the history of transportation, has become...
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Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and CommunityThe term "Heartland" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in...
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Ukraine's Outpost: Dnipropetrovsk and the Russian-Ukrainian WarThis is the first book to analyse the Russian-Ukrainian war from a regional perspective considering the role played by the Dnipropetrovsk region as the country's forpost (outpost) in Russia's war against Ukraine. In the Soviet Union, Dnipropetrovsk was a closed city due to its...
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Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French CameroonFinalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions An innovative study of Christianity and society in Cameroon that illuminates the history of faith and cultural transformation among societies living under French rule 1914 to 1939. Between the two...
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What Have You Left Behind?Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, What Have You Left Behind? powerfully draws together civilian accounts of the Yemeni civil war and serves as a vital reminder of the scale of the human tragedy behind the headlines.In 2015, a year...
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Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval EnglandFrom the author of Twitter's Medieval Death Bot comes Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England, an illuminating collection of in-depth looks at the most interesting cases from medieval coroners' rollsThomas, son of Henry Robekyn, died 1286 after cutting off his left...
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The Coffin Roads: Journeys to the WestCoffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore the distinctive...
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William Hobson (1820-1891)William Hobson, a staunch nineteenth-century Quaker minister and determined follower of Jesus Christ, was shaped by revival, Quaker history, and his Friends upbringing. As a young adult he left his home state of North Carolina for the Iowa frontier where he honed his God-given...
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Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy: The Popes of Egypt, Volume 3An authoritative history of the Coptic Papacy from the Ottoman era to the present day, new in paperback This third and final volume of The Popes of Egypt series spans the five centuries from the arrival of the Ottomans in 1517 to the present...
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In Hospital and Camp in the American Civil WarUPDATE 2021: re-edited and additional annotations.Long before the end of the American Civil War, Sophronia Bucklin had seen it all: sickness, shattered bodies, amputations, death, and torrents of blood. In this 1869 book, she spares the reader no detail while humanizing what would otherwise...
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From The Ground To The AirIncidents that happened to the author during his 15 months in Combat Engineers and 11 months in Huey helicopters during the Vietnam War.The author was 19 when he went to Vietnam and served in Combat Engineers and Huey Helicopters for a total of 26...
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Women in Classical Video GamesDespite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video...
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