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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Give Me Liberty!Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Seventh Edition, Eric Foner welcomes acclaimed scholars Kathleen DuVal and Lisa McGirr as co-authors. Together, they have enhanced coverage of Native American...
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German Battlecruisers of World War One: Their Design, Construction and OperationsThis is the most comprehensive study yet in the English language of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally 'armored cruiser', the eight ships of the class were to be involved in several early North...
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Gallant Ship, Brave MenA spellbinding war memoir of a torpedoing and the fight for survival of 24 men in a lifeboat. Hank Rosen, Cadet-Midshipman aboard a Liberty ship, tells the dramatic story of 30 days adrift in the Indian Ocean."Gallant Ship, Brave Men" is an epic tale...
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Franklin D. Israel: A Life in ArchitectureThis book examines the life and legacy of Franklin D. Israel, an influential member of the Los Angeles school of architects. Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel (1945-1996) created innovative residential projects and office interiors that made him one of the most talked-about...
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For My Children: A MemoirJohn P. Wald, Sr. was born Hans Boehmerwald in Vienna, Austria in 1927. During his early teen years, he and his parents were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps because they did not share the beliefs of Hitler's 3rd Reich. This is his amazing story...
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Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal LandscapesWhile surrealism's treatment of the body has been much researched, the role of landscape has rarely been examined. Published one hundred years after Andr? Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, Forbidden Territories reveals how surrealist ideas found their way into depictions of landscape as a...
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Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing: A ReassessmentFood and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing discusses the relevance of food imagery in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women's history and creativity. In...
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Florentine - Multi: Quicknotes- QuickNotes, 20 full color notecards, 5 each of 4 designs, 20 classic white envelopes in a keepsake box with magnetic closureHistorically, marbled paper has been used for decor projects from book-binding to wallpaper and everything in between. This Florentine collection is a mesmerizing...
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Federico Fellini: Centenary EssaysA complex and at times controversial film-maker whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century, Federico Fellini (1920-1993) remains central to the Italian cultural imagery and the object of ongoing debates and critical scrutiny at home and abroad. Images from his films...
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Featuring Florida: The Sunshine State in Fiction, Film & TVAuthor Caren Schnur Neile offers a whole new way to explore Florida. Dexter, Key Largo, The Yearling--all famous works of popular culture created by masters in their fields. What's more, all three take place in Florida. This plunge into Florida-based TV, movies and fiction...
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Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End SlaveryA dramatic history of how American Jews reckoned with slavery--and fought the Civil War. Since ancient times, the Jewish people have recalled the story of Exodus and reflected on the implications of having been slaves. Did the tradition teach that Jews should speak out...
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Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern ConservatismThe history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, and its influence on Republican Party politics Donald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative, anti-immigrant platform, but, despite the electoral surprise, Trump's far-right views were not an aberration,...
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Far More Than A Book: Destinations in Heavenly PlacesHave you ever wondered what it would be like to have an encounter with God? In Far More Than a Book, Haley details her encounter with God through visions and the interpretation of those visions through her writing. In each heavenly destination, she learned...
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Europe Without Borders: A HistoryThe contested creation of free movement--for people and goods--in the Schengen area of Europe Europe is a place of free movement among nations--or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross...
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Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland, MassachusettsColonial Sudbury, Massachusetts, was designated the Puritan Village by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the founding of this quintessential New England town in 1638. Yet this quiet rural village also had a darker history that is often overlooked....
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El Infinito En Un Junco (Edici?n Limitada, Cantos Pintados) / Papyrus: The Inven Tion of Books (Limited Edition, Sprayed Edges)Mejor Libro del Siglo XXI seg?n los libreros de Espa?a El ensayo revelaci?n de nuestro tiempoM?s de 500.000 ejemplares vendidosPublicado en m?s de 40 pa?ses PREMIO NACIONAL DE ENSAYO - PREMIO EL OJO CR?TICO - PREMIO DE LA ASOCIACI?N DE LAS LIBRER?AS DE MADRID...
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Eha's Great Escape (Eha suur p?genemine): Estonia (Eesti) 1944Eha's Great Escape (Eha suur p?genemine): Estonia (Eesti) 1944In 2024, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of the most dramatic and dangerous escapes in modern history-the 1944 flight of thousands of Estonians during World War II. This book captures that pivotal moment through...
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Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to the Muslim BrotherhoodA lively and informed account of Egypt's recent history and current situation In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the country in 1954. This new edition...
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Eaton Hall: Pride of King TownshipIn 1901, Florence McCrea Eaton married into one of the most prosperous families in the Dominion of Canada, becoming Lady Eaton fourteen years later when her husband, John Craig Eaton, was knighted. Not long after the death of her husband, Lady Eaton retired from...
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Easter: The Season of the Resurrection of Jesus"He is risen indeed!" Easter Sunday is the holiest day of the year, a day when even those who don't usually observe the Christian calendar or attend liturgical churches greet each other with the proclamation "Christ is risen!"But Easter is more than a day--it's...
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