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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The Dutch East India Company: A Captivating Guide to the First True Multinational Corporation and Its Impact on the Dutch War of Independence from SIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Dutch East India Company, then keep reading..Huge international companies and corporations are a normal part of our everyday lives today. For most, their unimaginable wealth and power, which are rivaling even some of the...
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The Diez Albums: Contexts and ContentsThe five Diez albums in Berlin, acquired by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez in Constantinople around 1789, contain more than 400 figurative paintings, drawings, fragments, and calligraphic works originating for the most part from Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, and Timurid workshops. Gonnella, Weis and Rauch unite in...
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The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq"Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . A substantial contribution to history."--Los Angeles Times Now in paperback, The Deserter's Tale is the first memoir from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid...
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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack and the Fight for Survival in Early AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV+ series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes "a vivid account" (The Wall Street Journal) of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives...
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The Dark Side of Jane Austen's WorldUncovers the darker societal issues in Jane Austen's novels, challenging their light-hearted perceptions.Jane Austen's novels are read all over the globe, and adaptations of her works have graced both film and TV screens. Although sometimes criticised for being detached from the real world, providing...
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The Crime of the Democrats: Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and the Destruction of the Founding Fathers' Dream"The Crime of the Democrats: Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and the Destruction of the Founding Fathers' Dream" studies the activities of the opponents of the United States Constitution from its creation in 1787 through the presidencies of Barack Obama and...
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The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: The Book Designed to Save the WorldThe Book of Mormon has been a source of controversy since its publication and the history behind its coming forth is shrouded in mystery. By researching the historical background of the time period I have reconstructed a narrative for its coming forth to the...
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The Communist Manifesto / Маніфест Комуністи
From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rentЗ того моменту, коли праця вже не може бути перетворена ні в капітал, ні в гроші, ні в рентуwhen labour can no longer be converted into a social power capable...
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The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern IsfahanHousehold anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial...
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The Case for the National Slavery Memorial and Aid to our HBCUsIt is fitting and proper that the United States dedicate, solemnize, and erect a memorial on our nation's most precious ground, the Washington Mall in Washington, District of Columbia, to commemorate the slavery and human bondage that existed on these shores before and after...
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The Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand: Art, Script, and Liturgical Creativity in an Early Medieval MonasteryThe series of beautiful sacramentaries made at Saint-Amand in the later ninth century offer us unique insight into an early medieval scriptorium at work. These manuscripts contain principally the prayer texts for the celebration of the Mass, a ceremony which stood at the centre...
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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 2, Affairs of the StateThis volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Millions of Americans lived outside the major campaign zones so they experienced secondary exposure to military events through newspaper reporting and letters home from soldiers. Governors...
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The Brazil ChroniclesAs a young journalist at the Brazil Herald from 1979-81, Stephen G. Bloom spent his early professional years working in Rio's seedy Lapa district, surrounded by fugitives, drug runners, pornographers, and stealth CIA agents. Bloom shares the wild story of this English-language newspaper in...
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The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & HideoutsThe capture of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history. Yet the city's criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Boston journalists Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow...
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The Border and the Buffalo: the Recollections of a Buffalo Hunter & Indian Fighter on the American West FrontierHunting the buffalo and fighting Indians on the western frontier For millennia the great herds of North American bison (or buffalo as they were popularly known) had roamed the continental heartland followed by the indigenous Indian tribes whose own existence in every sense depended...
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The Border and the Buffalo: the Recollections of a Buffalo Hunter & Indian Fighter on the American West FrontierHunting the buffalo and fighting Indians on the western frontier For millennia the great herds of North American bison (or buffalo as they were popularly known) had roamed the continental heartland followed by the indigenous Indian tribes whose own existence in every sense depended...
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The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North KoreaNorth Korea is commonly thought of as the most mysterious place in the world. The country is marked by its opacity and inaccessibility, its inner workings seen as impossible for outsiders to grasp. In this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D....
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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market"An immense scholarly feat."-New Yorker * "[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it's too late."-Esquire With a New Afterword by the Authors. The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history...
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The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our StoriesAlthough humble in their function, these carefully crafted barns have shaped the landscape of Maine for centuries.Built long before the days of plastic and plywood, the barns have survived for generations, each with a story to tell. In Bridgton, one barn offered comfort to...
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The Backslider: His Nature, Symptoms and Recovery"ANDREW FULLER was, in my opinion, one of the greatest theologians, which modern times, or any times have produced, and his writings are an almost inexhaustible mine of doctrinal, practical, and experimental truth, which every Christian and especially every minister, would do well to...
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