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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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Intimacies: The Architecture of Youssef TohmeFounded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as its starting point in developing an individual architectural language. By using a wide variety of materials that interact with the built environment,...
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Aggie JokesGrowing up in the beautiful hill country of central Texas, Aggie jokes were something you heard and learned from the moment you could talk. You refined the art on the playground or in the classroom. At times this resulted in some sort of punishment...
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Rethinking Social Movements After '68: Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and BeyondThe year 1968 has widely been viewed as the only major watershed moment during the latter half of the twentieth century. Rethinking Social Movements after '68 takes on this conventional approach, exploring the spaces, practices, organization, ideas and agendas of numerous activists and movements...
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Spanish Laughter: Humor and Its Sense in Modern SpainPresenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book examines how humour entered public life, how it attained a legitimacy to communicate 'serious' ideas in the Enlightenment and how this set the seed...
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Life and Death of Juan Coy: Outlaw and LawmanThe West was still wild in South Texas in the 1880s and 1890s for a rich Anglo landowner and a Mexican hired gun-outlaw-lawman. The authors explore a shoot-out that was more explosive than the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in a town that no...
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Child of the ApocalypseEllen White's two thousand visions, revered by her twenty million disciples, were doctrinally inspired by William Miller, who fathered the largest millennial movement in US history. He and Samuel Snow, during the movement's climax, the "Midnight Cry," predicted Christ's Second Coming for exactly October...
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The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s. The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of...
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A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among MankindA Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind is a great political science text on the subjects of equality and natural law by the great French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The text contains this preface: THE most useful and...
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To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International PoliticsTo Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival research, it unearths essays, speeches, and pamphlets that address fundamental questions about India's place in the world. In these texts, prominent public figures urge...
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Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart CourtThe story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.Life in the court of the House of Stuart has...
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Robert Kilwardby's Commentary on the Ethics of AristotleKilwardby's work on the first three books of the Nicomachean Ethics is the first medieval commentary on the Ethics whose author is known. The critically edited Latin text contains a careful explanation of Aristotle's text on happiness and moral virtue.Author: Anthony J. CelanoPublisher: BrillPublished:...
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Painting in Excess: Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985-1993The upheavals of glasnost and perestroika followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed the art scene in Kyiv, launching Ukrainian contemporary art as a global phenomenon. The previously calm waters of the culturally provincial capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic became...
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The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women's Spiritual LeadershipIt has been barely 40 years since rabbinical seminaries began ordaining women as rabbis. But women have played a role in Jewish religious leadership from the days of the Bible and even before. Miriam the Prophetess and Deborah the Judge are just the two...
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A Southern Lady's Tea JourneyAndrea "Andy" McDougal's tea journey begins in the city of New Orleans, her childhood home, and flows from her ancestors back to the late 1700s, who helped to fashion New Orleans and her current home of fifty years, Baton Rouge. Her story begins with...
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Pilgrims and Patriots: The Radical Christian Roots of American Democracy and FreedomIn this Second Edition of Pilgrims and Patriots, Dr. Eddie Hyatt ells the forgotten story of the radical Christians who laid the intellectual and moral foundations of the American republic. He shows clearly that they were not from the established churches of Europe. Instead,...
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Lola GT: The DNA of the Ford Gt40The 1963 Lola Mk VI GT was the car that inspired the Ford GT40 and then the Lola T70, both of which today are seen as true classic racecars. This book describes how all that happened, concentrating particularly on Allen Grant's Lola Mk VI,...
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Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and LouisianaAuthor: Alejandro de la Fuente, Ariela J. GrossPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/02/2021Pages: 295Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67dISBN: 9781108468145About the AuthorGross, Ariela J.: - Ariela J. Gross is the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History and...
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Shadowy Remains of Utah Towns: A Guide to Hundreds of Utah Ghost TownsDiscover hundreds of ghost towns throughout Utah with this guidebook filled with pictures and directions. Penny Spackman Clendenin, who grew up exploring ghost towns, divides them by county, sharing fascinating details that paint a portrait of Utah history. Towns include: - Bradshaw City, which...
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Sears Crosstown in Memphis: From Catalogues to a ConcourseWhen it opened in 1927, Sears Crosstown, now Crosstown Concourse, was the southeastern regional warehouse and distribution center for the Sears Catalogue mail-order empire. Each day, more than forty-five thousand orders were processed by more than 1,500 workers. As a result, Sears Crosstown became...
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Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, AutocracyPolitical philosophy in Russia has always sought, and sometimes found, a middle way between embracing anarchy and searching for authority. Political philosophy in Russia has never before been the subject of a scholarly monograph. While historical factors make this understandable, the topic deserves our...
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