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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Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of MimesisSince Plato's Republic, mimesis -- the artwork's tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life -- has faced a near-constant stream of assaults, being accused of naturalising a supposedly uncomplicated relationship between world and fiction. Lines of Mimesis offers a revisionary account of mimesis....
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Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective: The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine's Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the RenaThis book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine's foundation noted...
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Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into the Soul of America's SportsIn this alternately hilarious and insightful account, named Best Book of 1998 by "Publishers Weekly, Sports Illustrated" writer Rushin uses the lens of sports to come to a deeper understanding of America.Author: Steve RushinPublisher: Main Street BooksPublished: 09/14/1999Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.50h x...
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Revitalizing History: Recognizing the Struggles, Lives, and Achievements of African American and Women Art Educators (B&W Paperback Edition)Historical inquiry forms the foundation for much research undertaken in art education. While traversing paths of historical investigation in this field we may discover undocumented moments and overlooked or hidden individuals, as well as encounter challenging ideas in need of exploration and critique. In...
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Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray BradburyRay Bradbury, the iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, believed that a collection of his letters could someday illuminate the story of his life in new ways. That story emerges across time and memory in the...
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Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making WomenCognella Press is proud to announce the publication of Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women by Diana B. Carlin, Anita B. McBride, and Nancy Kegan Smith. Remember the First Ladies is a groundbreaking book showing the evolutionary role of first...
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Remembering Nicaea: The Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous CyzicenusRemembering Nicaea presents the first complete English translation of Anonymous Cyzicenus's Ecclesiastical History, the fullest surviving account of the Council of Nicaea (325 CE). The introduction features new arguments for the dating of the text, a discussion of Anonymous Cyzicenus's sources and their modification,...
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated SouthThis "viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era" won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher's Weekly, starred review). Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University's Center...
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Rembrandt. the Complete Self-PortraitsFew devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the conventions enshrined by his predecessors, Rembrandt transformed the art into a fully realized medium capable of communicating emotional depth rather than favorably immortalizing one's likeness in the...
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Reflecting on History: How the Industrial Revolution Created Our Way of LifeThe Industrial Revolution, with origins in England 300 ywars ago, set the world on a course that led to the comfortable style of living now being enjoyed by many of its citizens. This was a transformation that is well documented and presents a fascinating...
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Recollections of a Forest Life: The Life and Travels of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-BowhThe first book published by and Indigenous author in Canada is George Copway's Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847), in which he offers an autobiographical account of his life and experiences, details the changing landscape of his homeland, recounts Ojibwe customs, traditions, and...
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Reading MapsA map is an easy way to discover where things are, no matter where somebody may be in the world! A map is a drawing of all or part of Earth's surface, and it may show visible features, such as rivers, forests, buildings, and...
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Reading Charts and GraphsMany people believe "a picture is worth a thousand words," which is why charts and graphs can be very helpful when gathering information! A chart shows information, usually in rows and columns, and a graph shows how one type of information relates to another....
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Psychological DNA: A Cold Case Analysis of Who Killed Robert F. KennedyIt has been more than fifty years since presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, RFK, was murdered at the fashionable Ambassador Hotel in L.A. only five years after his brother John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged shooter who gunned down RFK, the...
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Positive Patriotism: Reigniting Our Love of CountryAuthor: J. David PinkstonPublisher: Liberty Hill PublishingPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 302Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781662892646This title is not returnable
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Positive Patriotism: Reigniting Our Love of CountryAuthor: J. David PinkstonPublisher: Liberty Hill PublishingPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 302Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781662892639This title is not returnable
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Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century AmericaRural cemeteries--named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location--were established during the middle decades of the nineteenth century in the United States. An instant cultural phenomenon, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation's first such burial ground to combine the...
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Pirates Own Book: Or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the Most Celebrated Sea RobbersComposed of material gathered from a variety of historical sources dating back to the mid-1700s, this extended account of piracy in ancient and modern times, and in all parts of the world, saw its first edition published in Boston in 1837. At least eight...
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Performing the Greek Crisis: Navigating National Identity in the Age of AusterityPerforming the Greek Crisis explores the impact of the Greek financial crisis (2009-19) on the performing arts sector in Greece, and especially on contemporary concert dance. When Greece became the first European Union member to be threatened with default, the resulting budget cuts pushed...
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Performing the Greek Crisis: Navigating National Identity in the Age of AusterityPerforming the Greek Crisis explores the impact of the Greek financial crisis (2009-19) on the performing arts sector in Greece, and especially on contemporary concert dance. When Greece became the first European Union member to be threatened with default, the resulting budget cuts pushed...
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