History
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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Green and Gold Cookery BookThe 'Green and Cold Cookery Book' was compiled in 1923 as a fundraising initiative of King's College (now King's Campus, Pembroke School). In 1999, Pembroke School celebrated 25 years since its foundation and the 75th anniversary of King's College. This edition of the 'Green...
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Great Battles of the Early Roman EmpireFrom renown Roman historian, Dr. Simon Elliott presents eight of the greatest, most significant battles from the first two and a half centuries of Rome's Imperial period.Dr Simon Elliott describes eight of the greatest, most decisive of the Roman Empire of the first to...
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Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary SpyThe first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors, men...
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Grandpa's Famous StoriesGrandpa's Famous StoriesBy: Dr. Cedrick Gilbert"Grandpa's Famous Stories is an awesome story that rejuvenates self-awareness, ruminates on past accomplishments, and resonates the heart."Dr. Craig L. Oliver Sr. Senior Pastor of Elizabeth Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA General Overseer of FGBCF Author of Travel Lightly"Grandpa's...
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Golden Art Nouveau Grand TrumpsFeaturing all 22 cards of the major arcana, this grand trumps deck brings to life classic Rider-Waite-Smith symbology in glittering glory. Gold foil details and delicately curving lines dance across each stunning illustration by artist Giulia Francesca Massaglia, capturing the spirit of the art...
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Glitch Theory: Art and SemioticsWhat do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations? Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of established knowledge that shapes as well as determines our engagement with the world. Betancourt builds on the...
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Get Me Carlucci: A Daughter Recounts Her Father's Legacy of Service"Frank Carlucci is living proof to all of us and to the world that 'only in America' is more than just an easy cliché it's a great ringing truth." --President Ronald Reagan Once called "Washington's ultimate survivor" by The Washington Post, Frank C. Carlucci...
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George Washington and the American Military TraditionIn George Washington and the American Military Tradition, Don Higginbotham investigates the interplay of militiaman and professional soldier, of soldier and legislator, that shaped George Washington's military career and ultimately fostered the victory that brought independence to our nation. Higginbotham then explores the legacy...
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Fugitive of Empire: Rash Behari Bose, Japan and the Indian Independence StruggleIn 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colonial freedom movement when he orchestrated a bomb attack against the British Viceroy during a public procession in Delhi. Forced to flee his homeland, Bose settled in Japan, becoming the most influential Indian...
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Frozen in Time: What Ice Cores Can Tell Us about Climate ChangeA dazzling introduction to paleoclimatology for kids, connecting the methods that scientists use to study our climate history with future climate change solutions. Believe it or not, ice isn't always just frozen water. In fact, most of the ice covering our planet contains thousands...
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Frontier Children"Peppered with letters and diaries written by children and liberally illustrated with photographs of children in their best clothes, or hard at work, this is a book for the entire family to read, look at, savor, and enjoy."--American Cowboy Enriched by over 200 vintage...
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From San Cataldo to Pittston - The Ormando Family in the Wyoming ValleyBetween 1903 and 1914, twenty members of the Ormando family made the journey from San Cataldo, Sicily to Pittston, Pennsylvania. Most of those who came left loved ones behind that they would never see again. The family members were either sulfur miners, or peasant...
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From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid Along the Tanzania-Rwanda BorderIn From Migrants to Refugees Jill Rosenthal tells the history of how Rwandan migrants in a Tanzanian border district became considered either citizens or refugees as nation-state boundaries solidified in the wake of decolonization. Outlining the process by which people who have long lived...
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From Jack Johnson to Lebron James: Sports, Media, and the Color LineThe campaign for racial equality in sports has both reflected and affected the campaign for racial equality in the United States. Some of the most significant and publicized stories in this campaign in the twentieth century have happened in sports, including, of course, Jackie...
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From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890-19502019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolution and jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a...
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Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against MelancholyElie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, studies four different rebbes in eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, delving into their lives, their work, and their impact on the Hasidic movement and beyond.In Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle against Melancholy, Jewish author, philosopher, and humanist...
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For the Love of It: The Mammoth Legacy of Roma and Dave McCoyFor the Love of It: The Mammoth Legacy of Roma and Dave McCoy traces the lives of Roma and Dave McCoy, visionary founders of world-renowned Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, from their singular childhoods through their eventual building of the first chairlift in the Eastern...
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Forged in America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped a NationExamines how Irish and Jewish Americans defined their place in a complex society. The story of America is the story of the unlikely groups of immigrants brought together by their shared outsider status. Urban American life took much of its shape from the arrival...
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Flight of the Bön Monks: War, Persecution, and the Salvation of Tibet's Oldest ReligionAn inside account of the Chinese invasion of Tibet told through the voices of three persecuted monks - Shares the true story of three monks' heroic escape from occupied Tibet and the subsequent rebirth of the Bön religion in exile - Introduces Bön, Tibet's...
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Five Men of Frankfort: The Story of the RothschildsA penetrating account of the founding family members of the famous Rothschild banking dynasty, written by one of America's top Jewish writers who spins an enthralling story explaining the exact origin and operation of the family business which became known as the "financier of...
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