History
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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Chief Daniel Bread and the Oneida Nation of Indians of WisconsinChief Daniel Bread (1800-1873) played a key role in establishing the Oneida Indians' presence in Wisconsin after their removal from New York, yet no monument commemorates his deeds as the community's founder. Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester, III, redress that historical oversight,...
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Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars: IB History Course Book: Oxford IB Diploma ProgramDrive critical, engaged learning and advanced skills development. Enabling comprehensive, rounded understanding, the student-centred approach actively develops the sophisticated skills key to performance in Paper 2. Developed directly with the IB for the new 2015 syllabus, this Course Book fully supports the new comparative...
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Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American SouthwestCanyon Gardens is the long-awaited sequel to Anasazi Architecture and American Design (UNM Press). It takes a new look at ancient and modern Puebloan gardening and landscape design approaches.Part One examines early Puebloan landscapes in detail, including compact gardens and terraces, site planning, the...
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Calvin on Scripture and Divine SovereigntyThe three chapters of this book have their origin in a series of lectures on certain aspects of Calvin's theology, delivered by John Murray, professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. These lectures were given in the Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed Church...
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British Royal Weddings: From the Stuarts to the Early Twentieth CenturyThis generously illustrated volume is the first in-depth study of the history and ceremonial at British royal weddings from the late sixteenth century onwards. Focusing on the actual wedding service, it overall follows the three main aspects of the choice of venue, the structure...
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British Light Cruisers: Leander, Amphion and Arethusa ClassesThis is the first of two volumes covering Royal Navy 6-inch cruisers of the 1930s and later, this one devoted to three related designs armed with twin mountings.The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly...
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Britain: One Million Years of the Human StoryThe amazing story of human life in Britain during the last million years, told by two scientists at the forefront of research into ancient ancestorsWhen did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This...
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Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval MasterpieceA carefully-integrated group of studies begins with the so-called "Chertsey" ceramic tiles, depicting combat between King Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. Found at Chertsey Abbey not far outside London and admired since the nineteenth century, we present here a new reconstruction of both the...
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Breadcrumbs: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet PolandA moving graphic memoir in the vein of Almost All American Girl and Persepolis, Breadcrumbs is a coming-of-age story set in Poland as the country transitions from communism to capitalism. In the late 1980s, Poland faces debilitating food shortages, worker discontent, and astronomical inflation....
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Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American CuisineDiscover the sweeping story of how Indigenous, European, and African traditions intertwined to form an entirely new cuisine, with over 90 recipes for the modern home cook--from the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer and star of the Netflix docuseries High on the Hog....
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Boxing: A Cultural HistoryThroughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation...
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Boston MarathonSince 1897, Patriots Day in Massachusetts has been celebrated with the running of the world's most-honored road race, the Boston Marathon(r). The hilly course challenges runners with well-known landmarks such as "Heartbreak Hill" and the deceptively inviting downhill treks at both the start and...
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BMW M3 & M4: The Complete History of These Ultimate Driving MachinesThis new edition explores all aspects of the M3's history, including the race and rally successes worldwide, supported by full and detailed specifications for each generation of the model. It expands on the previous edition, to bring the story right up to the present...
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Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary ArtHow did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. . . . How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of 1917 explode to become today's global multibillion-dollar art world? Blow...
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Black Britain and Nelson Mandela: "Pulling the Branch of a Tree"In this open access book, Elizabeth Williams leads a cast of renowned scholars to explore the impact of Nelson Mandela's legacy on Black intellectual thought on race and social justice in Britain. This engaging book presents an original collection of chapters authored by leading...
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Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe"The best modern account" (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than...
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Bishop Jonathan H. Hale of Nauvoo, His Life and Ministry: Including Brief Biographies of Aroet L. Hale, Alma H. Hale, Rachel Hale Hoagland, Solomon H.This 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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Birth of the Star-Spangled Banner: A Fly on the Wall HistoryWith bombs bursting overhead, a tattered flag flying ... Joined by two cartoon flies and their factual narrative infused with kid-friendly fun, readers go above deck with Francis Scott Key and witness the birth of the U.S. national anthem during the War of 1812.Author:...
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Beyond Cort?s and Montezuma: The Conquest of Mexico RevisitedBeyond Cort?s and Montezuma examines both European and Nahuatl texts and images that shed light on the complex narrative of contact and the ensuing conflict, negotiation, and cooperation that continued well after the colonial period. A diverse group of scholars from Europe, Mexico, and...
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Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining: Northern Painting, Food, and Social Class in Early Modern ItalySixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presenting, and preparing a visually stunning array of foodstuffs for the viewer. These were new subjects in Antwerp and even newer in Italy, where elite merchants and...
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