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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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Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of CookingIn Kitchen Mysteries, Hervé This offers a second helping of his world-renowned insight into the science of cooking, answering such fundamental questions as what causes vegetables to change color when cooked and how to keep a soufflé from falling. He illuminates abstract concepts with...
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The Eisenhower DiariesIn his books--the memoir of the Second World War, the two large volumes on the presidency, the incomplete autobiography written near the end of his life--Eisenhower related the course of events over the years, with descriptive detail and frequently with humor, but he usually...
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Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600In Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, Martha C. Howell challenges dominant interpretations of the relationship between the so-called commercial revolution of late medieval Europe and the capitalist age that followed. Howell argues that the merchants, shopkeepers, artisans, and consumers in cities and courts...
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The Goddess: Mythological Images of the FeminineIn a series of chapters each focusing on a different goddess or mythical woman, Christine Downing traces her own path of individuation from maiden-daughter to mature woman. A therapist, university professor of religion, and former president of the American Academy of Religion, she writes...
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Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in VietnamIn a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire threatened their fragile air lifeline. The siege...
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady RochfordIn a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry's ruthless and absolute power-including her own husband and her sister-in-law, Queen Anne...
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The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient GreeceIn 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously...
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After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws were supposed...
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The Rough RidersIn 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators. This group of men, which became known as the Rough Riders, trained for four weeks in the Texas...
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise Ofd EmocracyIn 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out...
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The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early AmericaIn 1834, a young Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America, her bound feet stepping ashore in New York City. She was both a prized guest and advertisement for a merchant firm--a promotional curiosity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. Over...
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Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the CrusadesIn 1099, when the first Frankish invaders arrived before the walls of Jerusalem, they had carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that endured for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusaders and pilgrims. The story of how this group...
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Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933In Hitler's Thirty Days to Power, distinguished Yale historian Henry Ashby Turner makes an important and influential addition to his life-long study of Nazi Germany. Providing vivid portraits of the main players of the drama of January 1933, and using newly available documents, Turner...
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The Birth of PurgatoryIn The Birth of Purgatory, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned Annales historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and with the historical role of...
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Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always FallIn The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire, what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment,...
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The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the PastIn The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great...
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How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a ScientistIn How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics. Townes was inventor of the maser, of which the laser is one example; an originator of spectroscopy using microwaves; and a...
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Remarkable Plants That Shape Our WorldImagine a typical morning--munching on a bowl of cereal, sipping coffee, dressing for the day, riding to work. Every moment of this common routine draws on the power of plants, and the centuries of development that brought wheat, coffee beans, cotton, and rubber--among many...
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Faceva Caldo a MilanoI giorni " infuocati" dello scontro fra fascisti e social-comunisti nella Milano del 1922, poco prima della Marcia su Roma. L' assalto a Palazzo Marino, sede dell' amministrazione comunale di Milano, da parte delle Camicie Nere . Pagine di Storia, rievocate con la partecipazione...
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The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil WarHistorical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell...
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