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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Potato: A Global HistoryFrom obscure Pre-Columbian beginnings in the Andes Mountains to global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to riches. In Potato, esteemed culinary historian Andrew F. Smith reveals the captivating story of a once lowly vegetable that has changed--and continues...
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Postwar South Korea and Japanese Popular CultureAfter World War II, Japanese popular culture was "banned" in Korea. However, despite the official ban, Japanese popular culture was introduced and circulated through hidden or unofficial channels. In fact, the author, born in Seoul in 1976, grew up watching the animated TV series...
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Populism and FascismAuthor: Carlos de la TorrePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/27/2025Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16dISBN: 9781009528986
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Politics and Society in Mid Thirteenth-Century England: The Troubled RealmDespite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a traditional framework bequeathed by the mid-twentieth-century historian, R. F. Treharne, and embellished by the emphases and accentuations of his present-day successors. Characterised by...
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Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 37: Jews in Polish and German Lands: Encounters, Interactions, InspirationsHistorians have largely tended to regard Polish Jewish history and German Jewish history, from the Middle Ages to the present, as playing out solely within national boundaries, thereby ignoring the interactions that have in practice shaped Jewish cultural life. Geographical proximity has meant that...
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Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204): New Texts, New ApproachesThe twelfth century was one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history and this volume is the first to focus exclusively on its abundant poetic production. It explores the broader sociocultural tendencies that shaped twelfth-century literature in both prose and verse by...
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Piracy on the Great Lakes: True Tales of Freshwater PiratesWaiting in the night, hidden behind a remote island, no lights showing, pirates would lure unsuspecting ships into unknown waters. Then they would silently slide up to them and board the ship. The crew would be killed and the bodies thrown over the side,...
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Physicians for the People: Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870-1970Author: Jack D. EllisPublisher: University Alabama PressPublished: 02/15/2025Pages: 244Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.10dISBN: 9780817322236This title is only available via back order
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Philadelphia Graveyards and CemeteriesPhiladelphia, the birthplace of America, is the final resting place of some of the nation's greatest citizens. The burial grounds of Christ Church hold the remains of Benjamin Franklin and six other signers of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia pioneered the development of the...
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Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British ArtistsPeter Gregory (1887-1959), Director and then Chairman of Lund Humphries, was at the heart of the avant-garde British art world for nearly thirty years of major change in society, politics, and culture. A pioneering art publisher who produced scholarly and richly illustrated monographs on...
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Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain FutureAuthor: Thane GustafsonPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 03/03/2025Pages: 328Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.42h x 6.47w x 1.20dISBN: 9780197795682About the AuthorThane Gustafson is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of many books, including Klimat (2021), The Bridge (2020), and Wheel of Fortune...
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Pentecostal Preacher Woman: The Faith and Feminism of Bernice GerardFollows the life of a Canadian Evangelical pastor who blurred the lines between conservative and progressive values. Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, and politician--Reverend Bernice Gerard (1923-2008) was all of this and more. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores Gerard's life as one of the most influential...
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Peasantry in the Cheb City-State in the Late Middle Ages: Socioeconomic Mobility and MigrationA reassessment of fundamental scholarship on the Middle Ages, based on previously unknown medieval written source material. The medieval peasantry represents a particularly compelling unknown for historians, as it holds the key to understanding both later economic growth and the surprising stagnation experienced in...
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Paramilitarism and European Society in the 1940s: Regimes of ViolenceThis book explores the social roots, character, and consequences of paramilitary violence in Europe in the 1940s. Paramilitarism had an impact on the lives of millions of Europeans, yet knowledge about this important topic is partial and fragmented. The general perception of European paramilitary...
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Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State RealityThe two-state solution is doomed; the one-state reality is here to stay Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years...
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Pan-Judah!: Volume ThreeBeginning in the 1920s, a man named Julius Streicher published a small weekly German newspaper called Der St?rmer. Its mission was straightforward: to warn the German people about the threats posed by foreign and domestic Jews. The dangers were very real, and Streicher's stories...
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Palimpsests and Related Phenomena Across Languages and CulturesIn the traditional view of European scholarship, palimpsests are parchment manuscripts from Antiquity or the Middle Ages whose original content has been erased, scraped away, or washed off and later overwritten with new content. This removed content is usually the focus of research. The...
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Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy: Innovation and Persuasion at the Intersection of Artistic and Architectural PracticeWhy did artists include prominent architectural settings in their narrative paintings? Why did they labour over specific, highly innovative structural solutions? Why did they endeavour to design original ornamental motifs which brought together sculptural, painterly and architectural approaches, as well as showcasing their understanding...
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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We AreLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our history, and awesome in the original sense of the word."--Ed Yong, New York...
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Our Contentious Universities: A Personal HistoryHow universities have become increasingly contentious since the Sixties, from the viewpoint of a former Princeton provost and Harvard president From his days at Princeton University as a member of the faculty, dean, and provost, and his time as a faculty member and president...
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