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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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Fort McHenry and Baltimore's Harbor DefensesExplore Florida's everglades, its history, the native tribes that called it home, and the fight to preserve the grassy wetlands documented through a collection of images.The Everglades once blanketed a quarter of Florida. Stretching from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay, its saw grass prairies,...
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Beaufort County, North CarolinaNamed by the English in honor of Lord Somerset, the Duke of Beaufort, Beaufort County enjoys its greatest natural resource in the picturesque Pamlico River and the numerous creeks that drain into it. The waterways of the county have for some three centuries served...
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The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the MoundWorld Series champion, former All-Star, and award-winning television analyst Ron Darling gives readers a inside look at one of the most demanding and strategic positions in all of sports: the pitcher. Drawing on vivid situations from his playing days for the New York Mets...
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A People's History of the World: Since 1400World history textbooks generally focus on politics, culture, and ideas. A People's History of the World takes a fundamentally different approach to understanding the nature of change over time on a global scale. Although politics, the history of ideas, and culture receive considerable attention,...
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OrnamentalismWith the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years and "upon which the sun never set" finally lost its hold on the world and slipped into history. But the question of how we...
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Yemen Endures: Civil War, Saudi Adventurism and the Future of ArabiaWhy is Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, involved in a costly and merciless war against its mountainous southern neighbor Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? When the Saudis attacked the hitherto obscure Houthi militia, which they believed had Iranian backing,...
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial SegregationWhy did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that all men are created equal? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from...
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium DisastersWhile many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to...
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Valkyrie: The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last MemberWhen the Second World War broke out, Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, then 25-years-old, fought enthusiastically for Germany as a cavalry officer. But after discovering Nazi crimes, von Boeselager's patriotism quickly turned to disgust, and he joined a group of conspirators who plotted to kill...
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George Washington: A Life in BooksWhen it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly...
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Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign,...
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A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust FictionWhat is the difference between writing a novel about the Holocaust and fabricating a memoir? Do narratives about the Holocaust have a special obligation to be 'truthful'--that is, faithful to the facts of history?Or is it okay to lie in such works? In her...
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Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern EuropeWhat does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night...
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The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past Volume 8What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the...
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Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific KnowledgeWe are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Amazonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in Bombay can use the same materials and techniques to...
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Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists: Marxism in the Civil WarWas Abraham Lincoln influenced by communism when the Union condemned the rights of Southern states to express their independence? It's shocking to think so. But that's precisely what Walter D. Kennedy and Al Benson Jr. assert in Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists. The pair...
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Walter Camp and the Creation of American FootballWalter Camp made the development of football--indeed, its very creation--his lifelong mission. From his days as a college athlete, Camp's love of the game and dedication to its future put it on the course that would allow it to seize the passions of the...
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Vermont (a True Book: My United States)Vermont is fiercely independent, but also welcoming to new people. It's a beautiful place to live or visit, especially for people who love spending time in nature.A True Book: My United States series allows readers to experience what makes each of the fifty state...
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A Social History of Ottoman IstanbulUsing a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence shaken regularly...
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Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women's HistoryUsing a page-a-day format, this is a collection of vignettes--inspired moments--from the lives of black woman across recorded time.Author: Janus AdamsPublisher: WileyPublished: 12/05/2000Pages: 436Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.64h x 5.50w x 1.03dISBN: 9780471395263About the AuthorJanus Adams is the author of Freedom Days (Wiley) as...
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