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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Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in ZimbabweAn account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace.In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in...
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Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, DOS Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in WarAfter meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a lost generation shaken by war. Eager to find his way in...
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1959: The Year Everything ChangedAcclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959...
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The Middle EastA comprehensive history from the world's foremost authority on the Middle East. In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing...
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Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and RussiaA thrilling, critically-acclaimed account of the Cold War spies and spycraft that changed the course of history, perfect for readers of Bomb and The Boys Who Challenged Hitler.The Cold War spanned five decades as America and the USSR engaged in a battle of ideologies...
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Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic WorldA sweeping exploration of revolutionary ideas that traveled the Atlantic in the late eighteenth century Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to...
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of ViolenceA sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The History of God - "Elegant and powerful.... Both erudite and accurate, dazzling in its breadth of knowledge and historical detail." --The Washington PostIn these times...
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Madame Saqui: Revolutionary Rope DancerA stunning picture book biography about the tightrope walker who dazzled Paris as she danced across the sky with impeccable balance and unparalleled skill during the French Revolution. In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform above large crowds on a...
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Eileen Gray, Designer and ArchitectA smartly designed and beautifully illustrated look at the life and work of an elusive and influential designer and architect Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome...
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim CrowA searing history of life under Jim Crow that recalls the bloodiest and most repressive period in the history of race relations in the United States--and the painful record of discrimination that haunts us to this day. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Been...
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Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648A remarkable new volume in the critically acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the sixteenth century. Martin Luther's challenge to church authority forced Christians to examine their beliefs in...
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Building SeagramA personal, authoritative history of one of the 20th century's most influential buildings The Seagram building rises over New York's Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture,...
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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945A penetrating and compassionate book on the most gigantic military struggle in world history.--The New York Times Book Review An extraordinary tale... Overy's engrossing book provides extensive details of teh slaughter, brutality, bitterness and destruction on the massive front from the White Sea to...
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The Life and Passion of William of NorwichA new translation of a fascinating chronicle from 12th-century England A work that holds a unique and terrible place in the history of anti-Semitism, The Life and Passion of William of Norwich gives a remarkable insight into daily life in a medieval cathedral city,...
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Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of MemoryA long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical...
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Letters of Note: FathersA fascinating new volume of messages about fatherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to...
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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest MetropolisA fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces...
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Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar's Decision and the Fate of RomeA dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his troops, he instead marched his soldiers across the Rubicon River,...
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Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of ShynessA deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the everyday Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group...
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Liberty Arrives!: How America's Grandest Statue Found Her HomeA deeply informative and gorgeously illustrated look at the Statue of Liberty, from award-winning nonfiction master Robert Byrd. America's most iconic national symbol was a gift from France to the United States--provided America raised the money for the pedestal on which it was to...
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