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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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The Sistine Chapel: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Famous Chapel*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary descriptions of Michelangelo and his work *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In 1503, Pope Julius II had succeeded the notorious Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), and Julius II brought an appreciation for the arts to the papacy....
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The Siege of Tyre: Alexander the Great and the Gateway to EmpireThe island city of Tyre along the coast of Lebanon was for centuries an impregnable fortress and key to unlocking Phoenician and Persian power in the Near East. Its fall was first prophesied in the Book of Ezekiel; but it would not be Nebuchadnezzar,...
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Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual HistoryDigital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital...
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The Secret Life of Tartan: How a Cloth Shaped a NationA stunning exploration of tartan's origins, its links with art, landscape, contemporary culture and the outlaws of history. Tartan is so much more than just a cloth. From its clan origins in the Scottish Highlands to the catwalks of Milan, London and New York,...
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The Samoan Story of CreationExplore the rich heritage of the Samoan people through The Samoan Story of Creation by Dr. John Fraser. This book delves into the ancient origins of Samoa, a land known for its profound cultural legacy and seafaring prowess. Dr. Fraser illuminates the intricate creation...
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The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of AmericaThe widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's...
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The Rule of St. AlbertThe Rule of Saint Albert was composed in 1208 AD by St. Albert of Jerusalem, and is among the shortest of monastic rules of consecrated life in existence of the Catholic church. It was written in French, and is almost exclusively composed of scriptural...
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The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship That Changed American HistoryEvoking the political intrigue of the Gilded Age, The Rough Rider and the Professor chronicles the extraordinary thirty-five-year friendship between President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. Theodore Roosevelt was a uniquely gifted figure. A man of great intellect and physicality,...
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The Roots of Ticasuk: An I?upiaq Family StoryIn 1974, the great I?upiaq writer and historian Ticasuk (also known by the English name Emily Ivanoff Brown) completed a master's degree program at the University of Alaska by researching and writing the history of the I?upiaq, who lived at Unalakleet, on the Norton...
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The Roots of Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, and the Remaking of Rochester, New YorkIn The Roots of Flower City, Camden Burd explores the economic and ecological significance of Rochester plant nurserymen over the course of the nineteenth century. As the first boomtown in the United States, Rochester was an embodiment of nineteenth-century market economies and social reform...
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The Road of Slaughter: The Latvian 15th SS Division in Pomerania, January-March 1945Through new interviews, translated personal diaries and extracts from the 15th Division war diary - only found in 2006 and never before published - the harrowing stories of the Latvians in Pomerania can now be told.In Arctic blizzards between January and March 1945, the...
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The Rise of Newport's Catholics: From Colonial Outcasts to Gilded Age LeadersNineteenth-century New England was a hostile place for Catholics. In Massachusetts a mob torched a convent; in Maine a priest was tarred and feathered; and Rhode Island elected an anti-Catholic Know Nothing governor. "No Irish Need Apply" signs were common. Newport was different. It...
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The Remnant: Franz Kafka's Letter: A Study on the Margins of JudaismAs a Jew, Kafka received nothing in inheritance from his father. Nevertheless, throughout his oeuvre, subtly, remnants of Jewish words can be deciphered. Hence, the question at the heart of this book: what remains when what's left is a "nothing of Judaism" (Letter to...
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The Real Story of the French Revolution: Separating Myth from RealityA look at the leading figure in the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture, challenging myths and exploring the vivid, often horrifying events of colonial history.The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in the eighteenth century. Everyone knows about the guillotine...
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The real Palestinian Problem is The UNRWAUnfortunately, the United Nations has long faced criticism for its perceived biased and anti-Israeli stance, with actions and resolutions against Israel often seen as lacking justification. The situation with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is even more concerning.Established...
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The Pioneer Cookbook: Recipes for Today's KitchenDelight Your Family with Recipes That Have Stood the Test of TimeBring to your family's table the same hearty meals that fed the pioneers as they moved westward across the frontier. In The Pioneer Cookbook Miriam Barton presents over 200 recipes used by those...
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The Penalty Kick: The Story of a GamechangerA rousing history of the penalty kick and its introduction in English football by a famed British writer & editor. Football, in the 1880s, was a rough and dangerous game. To address the abhorrent state of the sport, William McCrum, an amateur Irish goalkeeper...
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The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII HeroMovingly written by her own daughter, this captivating and intimate biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier. For readers of...
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The Oxford Handbook of Institutions of International Economic GovernanceAuthor: Brousseau/Glachant/SPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 07/13/2023Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780190900571
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The Other '68: A Social History of West Germany's RevoltThe book is a new, revisionist account of Sixties protest movements in West Germany. It challenges established narratives centring male intellectuals by foregrounding families, private lives, women, and old people. Worked from a wealth of new archival sources, the book argues that '1968' was...
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