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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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Roads to AntietamThe creaking of the wheels, the smell of sweaty leather harnesses, the rumble of horse drawn vehicles, and the tramp, tramp, tramp of perspiring men through clouds of dust comprised some of the sights and sounds of September 1862. The month brought the first...
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Revolutionary DissentWhen members of the founding generation protested against British authority, debated separation, and then ratified the Constitution, they formed the American political character we know today-raucous, intemperate, and often mean-spirited. Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies,...
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Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam: Dynamics of Change in Muslim Societies. in Honour of Roman LoimeierThe contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various disciplinary approaches. Apart from methodological questions the authors investigate religious and social developments in Africa and the Near and Middle East while focusing e.g....
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Researches Into the Lost Histories of America; or, The Zodiac Shown to be an old Terrestrial map in Which the Atlantic Isle is Delineated; so That LigThis 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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Rembrandt. the Self-PortraitsFew devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's radical contributions to the art of the self-portrait. Challenging the conventions enshrined by his predecessors, Rembrandt transformed self portraiture into a fully realized medium capable of communicating emotional depth rather than favorably immortalizing...
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Relics, Dreams, Voyages: World BaroqueThis book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.Author: Peter DavidsonPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75dISBN: 9781526169341About the AuthorPeter Davidson is Senior Research Fellow in...
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Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and WalesChallenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought...
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Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern AmericaAs relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare--based in part on newly declassified sources--by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times reporter. The film Oppenheimer has awakened interest in this vital period of...
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Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic WestA history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which...
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Reconciling History: A Story of CanadaOne of the Toronto Star's 25 books to read this season From the #1 national bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet and True Reconciliation, a truly unique history of our land--powerful, devastating, remarkable--as told through the voices of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples....
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Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. Medieval and early modern recipes can be short and simple but sometimes are not - sometimes they work, and sometimes they do not. They...
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Raqib ShawThe first monograph on more than thirty years' work by the Indian-born British artist, whose opulent, brightly colored paintings have made him one of the most extraordinary and sought-after artists working today. Shaw's work is as vibrant and ornate in color and detail as...
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Rag Fair: A Different Migration History of London's East End, 1780-1850In the early Victorian age, the streets of East London were home to migrants from different regions and religions. In the midst of this area lay the famous Rag Fair street market, sustained by trade routes stretching across the globe. The market's history demonstrates...
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Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited: The Published Versus the Unpublished RecordChaco Canyon and Mesa Verde are arguably the two best-known archaeological areas in the American Southwest. Yet despite more than a century of archaeological research, many questions remain unanswered. From more than fifty years of research, archaeologist Jonathan E. Reyman has uncovered a wealth...
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Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance ItalyA thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyages--fruits of empire that...
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Prophetic Wisdom: Engaged Buddhism's Struggle for Social Justice and Complete LiberationClassical Buddhism lacked an understanding of systemic injustice and its contribution to collective suffering. Despite the teaching of impermanence, classical Buddhist schools viewed social institutions as given and offered no path to social transformation. Today, Buddhists are shaped by multiple religious and secular traditions,...
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSSThe incredible untold story of four women who spun the web of deception that helped win World War II.Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was...
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Projections of Dakar: (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal Through CinemaProjections of Dakar studies the audiovisual creations and practices of twenty-first-century Senegalese filmmakers living, working, and distributing their films in urban Senegal. Although some observers have described contemporary Senegalese cinema as a dying industry, this book shows that it retains great potential. Senegalese cinematic...
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Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW CampsA pathbreaking account of World War II POW camps, challenging the longstanding belief that the Japanese Empire systematically mistreated Allied prisoners. In only five months, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the fall of Corregidor in May 1942, the Japanese...
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Pre-Raphaelite SistersOverlooked stories of the female painters and subjects of Pre-Raphaelite artWhen the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood exhibited their first works in 1849, it heralded a revolution in British art. Think of the images created by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others...
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