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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WinslowFounded by the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in 1880, Winslow evolved from a company boomtown into a small city whose historic character is defined primarily by its location along US Route 66 since the highway's designation in 1926. Now Historic Route 66, it runs...
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William Whewell: Victorian PolymathWilliam Whewell, the famous master of Trinity College in Cambridge, was a central figure in nineteenth-century British scientific culture and one of the last great polymaths. His influential work ranged from history and philosophy of science, education, architecture, mineralogy, and political economy to mathematics,...
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Why We Love Tea: A Tea Lover's Guide to Tea Rituals, History, and Culture (How to Make Tea, Gift for Tea Lovers)The Perfect Gift for Tea LoversFrom recipes and advice on tea-making to the history and significance of tea, this informative guide has something for every tea loverFull of exclusive recipes, this is the perfect gift for the foodie in your life. Why We Love...
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Who Owns Democracy?: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in AmericaThis book uniquely reverses today's MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real "deeper state" is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy.Author: Charles Derber, Yale R. MagrassPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 08/07/2024Pages: 282Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.69h x...
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Where China Meets IndiaThant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of...
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When Mississippi Schooled America in Baseball: Mississippi State University, Ole Miss, Pearl River Community College, Madison Central High SchoolIn 2021 Madison Central High School's baseball team was named by Baseball America the High School Baseball Team of the Year. Mississippi State University won the Men's College World Series and were crowned the 2021 NCAA Division I National Baseball Champions. Pearl River Community...
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What's Next? Iran Goes Nuclear: Connecting Today's Headlines to Tomorrow's Prophetic EventsIran attacks Israel!Is this the spark that ignites the Gog-Magog War?On October 1, 2024, Iran launched its second direct assault on Israel within six months, shattering decades of shadow warfare. This attack may be the turning point that propels the Middle East toward the...
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Westviking: The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North AmericaStep into the world of sagas, longships and enigmatic Norse explorers with Farley Mowat's captivating historical account, Westviking. The Viking sagas speak of a land called Vinland, a place of abundant resources and possibilities. Nearly a thousand years after the events those tales describe,...
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We're Not OK: Jewish & Ally Experiences Post 10/7On October 7th, 2023, one of the most barbaric massacres of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, took place in Israel. While the attacks demonstrated the cruel savagery of a modern death cult, some of the most shocking outcomes arose from the reactions of...
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We Hold These Truths: How to Spot the Myths That Are Holding America Back"We Hold These 'Truths' dismantles dozens of myths about American politics in the service of rebuilding American democracy. Burgat teaches us that the solutions are never simple or quick--but that they are within our reach if we're humble enough to rethink our assumptions and...
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Wayne Ngan, Island Potter: A Portrait by a FriendWhen Ngan Gui Wang arrived in Canada at age thirteen to live with his unwelcoming grandfather, he was poor, illiterate, and bereft of his family in China. In school, he faced racist taunts and saw little hope for a future until his junior high...
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War, Global Capitalism and ResistanceFor the last twenty years, William I. Robinson has been developing a new theory of capitalism and the state; now his selected writings are collected in War, Global Capitalism and Resistance. His theory of capitalism, imperialism, and the state - describing a transnational capitalist...
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Wacky Dust: What Happens on a TrainIt's 1946, and you're aboard Santa Fe Railway's all-Pullman Super Chief, leavingChicago for Los Angeles. What a cast of characters boarded with you! Walt Disneydreams of a park like no other that he can't afford to build. Singer Nat Cole has fallen inlove-but not...
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Views from Beyond Metropolis: Reimagine the American Way and learn ways to bridge multicultural divides in an ever-changing worldAuthor Alan O'Hashi reimagines Superman's American Way in his memoir Views from Beyond Metropolis: True Stories of a Japanese American Baby Boomer. He provides the reader with practical techniques to become more aware of their biases, how to undo them, and equip themselves to...
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Venice and the Ottoman Empire: A Tale of Art, Culture, and ExchangeAccompanying a major traveling exhibition, this book examines the unique artistic and cultural exchange between the Republic of Venice and Turkish Ottoman culture and identity over a three-hundred-year period. From the early Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century, Venice held a central...
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Vanishing SeattleThough Seattle is still a young city, growing and changing, much of its short past is already lost-but not forgotten. Generations of Seattleites have fond memories of restaurants, local television shows, stores, and other landmarks that evoke a less sophisticated, more informal city. This...
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Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of RedemptionEthics and Intersectionality Series UP AGAINST A CROOKED GOSPEL Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption Melanie Jones Quarles An essential text for students and scholars of womanist thought, ethics, biblical studies, and Black religion. Drawing upon her grandmother's personal struggles with physical...
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Understanding Contemporary Russian Militarism: From Revolutionary to New Generation WarfareRussian perceptions of the deep crisis after the demise of the USSR led certain circles in Moscow to conclude that an "Anglo-Saxon" anti-Soviet clandestine information war had nearly destroyed Russia. Russian political-military elites decided that the nature of war had changed, and Moscow must...
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Uncommon Valor: The Recon Company That Earned Five Medals of Honor and Included the Most Decorated Green BeretUncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert U.S. military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such...
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Uncertain Allies: General Joseph Stilwell and the China-Burma-India TheaterUncertain Allies looks at the U.S. military's experience in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater during World War II through the eyes of Joseph Stilwell, the commanding general of all American forces in those three countries. Accomplished historian Eric Setzekorn, focuses on two key themes: uncertain...
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