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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain: 1819 to the Early Twentieth CenturyDuring the nineteenth century, local officials sought to deal with their Irish pauper 'problem' by removing these poor migrants back to Ireland under the laws of settlement and removal. Over the course of the century, hundreds of thousands of Irish paupers were forcibly repatriated...
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The Red Book of Houston; a Compendium of Social, Professional, Religious, Educational and Industrial Interests of Houston's Colored PopulationThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Real Story of Julius Caesar: The Man Who Changed Rome Forever"The Real Story of Julius Caesar: The Man Who Changed Rome Forever" takes readers on an exciting journey through the life of one of history's most famous figures. From his daring adventures as a young soldier to his rise as a powerful leader, this...
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The Politics of Sorrow: Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan ExileThe Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959 after its occupation by China and established a government in exile in India. There, Tibetan leaders aimed to bring together displaced people from varied religious traditions and local loyalties under the banner of unity. To contest...
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The Persian Miniatures Collection of the Rijksmuseum, a Hidden Treasure TroveThe present book offers an elaborate art historical study of the collection of Persian miniatures at the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam. The collection includes detached folios, which are the most significant in any Dutch collection. The artworks, catalogued thorougly in this book for the first...
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The Permanent Revolution and Results and ProspectsTrotsky's theory of the permanent revolution is one of the most important additions to the arsenal of marxism. It was first developed by Trotsky in 1904, on the eve of the first Russian Revolution. At that time, all the tendencies of the Russian Social...
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The Peace Corps in Tanzania: A HistoryAn examination of one of the earliest Peace Corps programs in Africa In 1961, the first group of Peace Corps volunteers in Tanzania--surveyors, engineers, and geologists--arrived in Dar es Salaam with three core objectives: meet the newly independent country's needs for trained personnel, promote...
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The Parthenon: The Height of Greek CivilizationThe story of an inspired building and an inspirational civilization. The Parthenon is more than a magnificent building. Every marble statue, every graceful column, is an expression of a civilization whose three great values still speak to us today: Democracy. At a time of...
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The Outlander Oracle: A 54-Card Deck and GuidebookLet the wisdom of Outlander guide and inspire you with this beautifully rendered oracle deck, based on the #1 New York Times bestselling series by Diana Gabaldon. Drawing on Outlander's universal themes of love, loss, and fate, these 54 original watercolors include portrait cards...
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern SportsNamed one of the Best Books of 2024 by The New Yorker, NPR and BookPage"Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for understanding and equality." --Jonathan Eig, author of...
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the StateFriedrich Engels takes you on a tour around the evolution of the human society into the current establishment we take for granted as the ever-existing standard. No doubt there are many holes left in this study of anthropology, it provides a systematic study into...
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The New South, 1945-1980: The Story of the South's ModernizationAlmost three decades after publication of the tenth volume of A History of the South -- George Tindall's The Emergence of the New South, 1913--1945 -- Numan V. Bartley now presents Volume XI: a masterly synthesis of the region's most complex years to date....
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The NetherlandsThe canals of Amsterdam may be the most famous feature of the Netherlands, but there is much more to explore in this European nation, which has a history that stretches back centuries into the past. Readers discover this as they explore focused chapters that...
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The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968-1990The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique's punitive society under Frelimo. Individuals who transgressed the law and socialist normative codes of...
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The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968-1990The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique's punitive society under Frelimo. Individuals who transgressed the law and socialist normative codes of...
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The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France: Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221-1422The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasia--the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquest--their encounters altered each other's understanding...
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The Loyal OppositionAuthor: Charles Hugh Brown, Colton Tyrel BighamPublisher: Butterfly Bones Bookworks, LLCPublished: 01/03/2025Pages: 244Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55dISBN: 9798218578695This title is not returnable
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The Long Beach PeninsulaJutting northward from the mouth of the Columbia River, the Long Beach Peninsula defines Washington's southwestern coastal geography. The picturesque blend of beach and forest along the river, Willapa Bay, and the Pacific Ocean was home to the Chinook Indians who first settled this...
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The Life of the Chevalier BayardThis biography of Pierre Terrail, the Chevalier Bayard, is an excellent example of 19th-century literature. Written by American author William Gilmore Simms, the book is a stirring portrait of a 16th-century French knight who was renowned for his bravery, honor, and chivalry. Simms's vivid...
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The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters"Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality, and embraced in his view the whole future of man."--Henry Adams Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) left a vast literary legacy in the form of journal entries, notes, addresses, and seventy thousand letters. This extraordinary volume represents many...
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