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The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern TimesThe Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization from before the birth of...
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Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives"If you do not know where you come from, you will always be a child." Cicero wasn't talking about being a child in the sense of enjoying life in a state of ignorant bliss. He was, rather, adamant that those who don't understand their...
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Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten FoodsEach week during the growing season, farmers' markets offer up such delicious treasures as brandywine tomatoes, cosmic purple carrots, pink pearl apples, and chioggia beets--varieties of fruits and vegetables that are prized by home chefs and carefully stewarded by farmers from year to year....
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The Discovery of InsulinWhen insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to life. In the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of a classic, Michael Bliss unearths scientists' memoirs and confidential appraisals of insulin by members of the...
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White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity NarrativesSome of the most popular stories in nineteenth-century America were sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa. White Slaves, African Masters for the first time gathers together a selection of these Barbary captivity narratives, which significantly influenced early American attitudes toward...
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African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural HistoryAfrican-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History offers a current and comprehensive history that contextualizes black artists within the framework of American art as a whole. The first chronological survey covering all art forms from colonial times to the present to publish in over...
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Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of EuropeSeventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to...
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Eisenhower's Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of FranceThe challenges facing General Dwight Eisenhower before the Invasion of Normandy were not merely military but political as well. He knew that to liberate France, and to hold it, the Allies needed local help, which would necessitate coordinating with the highly independent French resistance...
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Doing History: An Introduction to the Historian's Craft, with Workbook ActivitiesIn this era of Twitter and text-messaging, which calls into question previously accepted notions of literacy, today's students need a new and more pragmatic approach to developing writing and research skills. While a number of guides to historical research and writing and several historical...
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Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture Between the World WarsAmericans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals...
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Walter Camp: Football and the Modern ManAmericans are obsessed with football, yet they know little about the man who shaped the game to make it uniquely technical, physical, and 'man-making' at once. Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football," was the foremost authority on American athletics and arguably the greatest...
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Russia's EmpiresRussia's Empires explores the long history of Russia, the Soviet Union, and the present Russian Federation through the lens of empire, analyzing how and why Russia expanded to become the largest country on the globe and how it repeatedly fell under the sway of...
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Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian ReconstructionFor the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction. The proponents of this movement embrace a radical position: that all of life should be brought under the authority of biblical law...
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From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical TraditionFor several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and...
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Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat HitlerThe Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration. In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation,...
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The Beats: A Very Short IntroductionIn the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and...
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Eyes on Labor: News Photograpy and America's Working ClassIn the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how news photography brought workers into the nation's...
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War, Peace, and All That Jazz Middle/High School Teaching Guide, a History of Us: Teaching Guide Pairs with a History of Us: Book NineDeveloped to complement the Middle/High School teaching guide, this student study guide was created as reproducible support for extension and self-directed study of A History of US: War, Peace, and all the Jazz . Every chapter is covered by a lesson, which includes activities...
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Migration: A World HistoryMigration began with our origin as the human species and continues today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe. Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies evolved in different material environments,...
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Constantine the EmperorNo Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography...
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