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 Second World War's Military Legacy: The Atomic Bomb and Much MoreNecessity is the mother of invention and nothing is more necessary than victory in war. Driven by the need to defeat Hitler's Nazis and Japanese Imperial ambitions, the period 1939-1945 saw huge and unprecedented leaps in the invention and development of war winning weapons...
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Christ Groups and Associations: Foundational EssaysThe use of voluntary associations as a way to begin understanding Christ groups has become accepted practice in much of modern New Testament scholarship. This consensus has been decades in the making, building on work from the previous century. Easy access to influential works...
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Jazz À La Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of JazzDuring the formative years of jazz (1890-1917), the Creoles of Color--as they were then called--played a significant role in the development of jazz as teachers, bandleaders, instrumentalists, singers, and composers. Indeed, music penetrated all aspects of the life of this tight-knit community, proud of...
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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of AbolitionUndoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and...
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Encounters in Video Art in Latin AmericaWith insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Latin America since the 1960s. The emergence of video art in Latin America is marked by multiple points of development, across more than...
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Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and LegacyAuthors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace...
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South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous 2nd EditionA history of the unique sounds of the Cajun Bayous. Extensive research, fieldwork, and personal interviews combine to provide a fascinating look into the sounds of South Louisiana from early Cajun and Cajun-Country through Zydeco and Blues to the Cajun revival as the first...
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Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Fear, Dissension, and Insurrection in the Philippines, December 1989Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Fear, Dissension, and Insurrection in the Philippines, December 1989By: David L. MathewsOn November 29th, 1989, David L. Mathews touched down in the Philippines, a place very near and dear to him. However, this trip would not be...
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon, and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSDFrom Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law. On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a...
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The Crusades UncoveredAdrian Boas, an archaeologist with four decades' experience in the field, takes a fresh approach to investigating the experiences of crusaders, pilgrims, and settlers in the crusader states during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The book opens up the experience of medieval travel and...
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The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female PortraitEmpress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi...
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The Science Book: From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the History of ScienceFrom astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science. Award-winning author Cliff Pickover (The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book) gathers into one fully illustrated volume the most important thinkers and ideas in...
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The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future (Second Edition)The author of The Long Descent examines a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression. To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it's clear that things are going very,...
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Volomin; a Memorial to the Jewish Community of Volomin (Wolomin, Poland)It was not easy for us to publish the book, which we present with feelings of satisfaction and reverence for the survivors of Wolomin in Israel and the whole world. Years ago we expressed the idea of publishing a book about our destroyed community,...
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Iconicars Mercedes-Benz 300 SL- Hard facts, soft skills: technical data, casually recounted anecdotes, and plenty of interesting lifestyle information - On track and on the screen: the successes of the 300 SL in racing and its many appearances in the movies and on television - A must-have...
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Churches Picture Book: For Seniors and Patients with Dementia and Alzheimer'sPerusing through "Churches Picture Book" along with your beloved who is facing memory or cognitive challenges can be a beautiful way to reconnect and rekindle happy memories of the past and initiate a conversation.This picture book contains full-page photos of all kinds of churches,...
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Living with Honor: A MemoirA compelling memoir from a true hero--an ordinary man who joined the army and became one of the few living persons to ever be awarded the celebrated Medal of Honor. Medal of Honor winner Staff Sergeant "Sal" Giunta's empowering memoir describes a boy working...
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The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly GreatThe fascinating story of Franklin Roosevelt, the Greatest Generation, and the freedoms they won, is a "stirring, heady dose of American history by a...progressive thinker" (Kirkus Reviews).On January 6, 1941, the Greatest Generation gave voice to its founding principles, the Four Freedoms: Freedom from...
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War"A raw, intimate look at the impact of combat and the healing power of friendship" (People): the lives of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the effect of their military service on their personal lives and families--named a best book of the...
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Mona Lisa: A Life DiscoveredEverybody knows her smile, but no one knows her story: Meet the flesh-and-blood woman who became one of the most famous artistic subjects of all time--Mona Lisa.A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year...
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