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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Forza Sankt Pauli: FC St. Pauli: Supporting a radical football club in a polarised political ageIn Forza Sankt Pauli author Nick Davidson documents how Hamburg's radical football club, FC. St Pauli, continues to be a rallying point for left-wing activists in both Germany and around the world. The book which focuses on the club's activities in the 21st Century,...
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Fort Selden, 1865-1891: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Frontier Fort in New MexicoFort Selden was a small frontier fort built in 1865 with the mission of protecting the citizens of the Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico. This book tells the story of Fort Selden's beginning, its years of service, and its eventual abandonment. Throughout Fort...
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Formula One Record Book 2024: Every Race Result, Team & Driver Stats, All-Time RecordsWith more than a thousand sets of complete Grand Prix results, this is the ultimate reference book for Formula One fans.Author: Bruce JonesPublisher: Welbeck PublishingPublished: 04/16/2024Pages: 1120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.90lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.59w x 2.44dISBN: 9781802790900
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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes ItThe fizzy, "marvelously entertaining" (Los Angeles Times) story of the world's favorite beverage For God, Country & Coca-Cola is the definitive history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins as a patent medicine in Reconstruction Atlanta through...
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Ford Mustang Shelby Gt500Start your engine! The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is a powerful muscle car ready to race. In this hi/lo title, leveled text shares the history of the car and the Ford and Shelby American partnership. It then dives into the latest run of this...
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Florida's Space Coast: The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State"An important, interesting study of the relations between the Kennedy Space Center and the communities of Brevard County, Florida."--Roger D. Launius, chief historian, NASA, Washington, D.C."This outstanding book provides readers of Florida history our first insight into the impact that high technology has had...
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Finis Britanniae: A Military History of Roman Britain and the Saxon ConquestA new analysis of the evidence shows that the end of the Roman era and birth of Anglo-Saxon rule in Britain was a long, drawn out process and that much of the nuances have been lost over time. This fascinating insight into an often...
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Finding the First Greeks of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1914-1955: A Walking Tour of DowntownFrom 1914 to 1955 there were at least forty-eight Greek immigrant-owned businesses located in and around downtown Santa Fe. These businesses were mainly restaurants and caf?s, but they also included candy shops, pool halls, grocery stores, cigar stores, bars, and a bakery. This book...
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Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in AmericaOur era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a "tradwife" is gaining adherents on the right while polyamory wins converts...
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Fieldcraft and Stealth: The Training of the Soldier in Stalking, Crawling, PatrollingThe art of fieldcraft explained by an expert Royal Marine sniper. Illustrated with practical demonstrations and commentary, this excellent Gale & Polden manual dated 1942 has good black & white illustrative photographs to accompany the authoritative text.Good fieldcraft is especially important for the effectiveness...
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Ferrari RomaTake a drive in style in the Ferrari Roma. This hi/lo book explores the design and performance of this luxury sports car. Readers will learn about the car's parts, modes, and interior through leveled text. Special features like a map and size chart engage...
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Fearless Firsts: Women Who Leaped, Jumped, and FlewThrill seekers have jumped, flown, and soared in search of excitement! Historically, men have set the records and earned the fame. But women haven't let that stop them. Who was the first woman to live underwater or in outer space? How did a female...
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Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race, and Nation, C. 1850-1970Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a formative platform for imagining a host of Irish pasts,...
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Exceptions to Their Rule: Basques and Wabanaki in an Age of AutocratsIn "Exceptions to Their Rule," Rick Sloan invites readers to embark on a journey back to a world dominated by the iron grip of autocrats. From 1420 to 1620, monarchs, popes, and cardinals, driven by greed and lust for power, left a trail of...
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Energy, the Subtle Concept: The Discovery of Feynman's Blocks from Leibniz to EinsteinEnergy is at the heart of physics and of huge importance to society and yet no book exists specifically to explain it, and in simple terms. In tracking the history of energy, this book is filled with the thrill of the chase, the mystery...
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Empires on the PacificBy moving China to center stage, Robert Smith Thompson expands the traditional boundaries of the Pacific Theater of World War II and casts the conflict in an entirely new light. What is commonly viewed as a discrete military conflict between an aggressive Japan with...
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Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative EconomyShows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.Author: Waiyee LohPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 06/01/2024Pages: 220Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781438498270This title is not returnable
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El Continente Olvidado: Una Historia de la Nueva América LatinaPocos libros pueden catalogarse realmente como "fundamentales" o "imprescindibles". Este es uno de ellos. El continente olvidado es una gran cr nica pol tica y econ mica de Am rica Latina, desde M xico hasta Argentina, que con maestr a narrativa e informaci n...
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Echoes of the Lost Boys of SudanWe were young boys when war broke out in our country. We had been living peacefully with our families in different villages. Then the armies from the north attacked, and we ran for our lives. We escaped with hundreds of other young boys, running...
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Eating in the Side Room: Food, Archaeology, and African American IdentityAn archaeological study of African American foodways in nineteenth-century Annapolis In Eating in the Side Room, Mark Warner uses the archaeological data of food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Chesapeake to show how African Americans established identity in the face...
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