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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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Paul Kane's Travels in Indigenous North America: Writings and Art, Life and TimesThis is a shrink-wrapped four-volume set. Paul Kane has been called the founding father of Canadian art, and Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America a classic of Canadian literature. Yet his studio canvases are stereotypically generic, and his book is...
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Patriot Paths of Pennsylvania...The Colonial Years: OR the Memoirs of a MarineThis is not just a history book. The sheer amount of detailed information regarding each battle and skirmish collectively called the Philadelphia Campaign during the Revolutionary War, would fill volumes. This book focuses more on the ironies, intrigue, and idiosyncrasies of a phase in...
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Patriot Paths of Pennsylvania...The Colonial Years: OR the Memoirs of a MarineThis is not just a history book. The sheer amount of detailed information regarding each battle and skirmish collectively called the Philadelphia Campaign during the Revolutionary War, would fill volumes. This book focuses more on the ironies, intrigue, and idiosyncrasies of a phase in...
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Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936-1945)Common perception of women in wartime relegates them to the sidelines of history--working in munitions factories or waiting for their men to return. The truth is that much of the resistance to fascism should be chalked up to the people about whom official accounts...
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Paolo VeroneseGrand historical scenes, intricate architecture and robust colors on display in the paintings of the Italian Mannerist masterOne of the three major Venetian painters of the Cinquecento, Paolo Caliari (1528-88), known as "Veronese," was celebrated first and foremost as a colorist. A sumptuous narrator,...
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Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and WhitefieldMen of their time?Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals--and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery. Edwards and Whitefield both kept slaves themselves, and Wesley failed to speak out against slavery until near...
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Origin Story: The Trials of Charles DarwinBy early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was...
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Origin Story: The Trials of Charles DarwinBy early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was...
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On Rhetoric and Black MusicHow Black musicians and composers used their craft to define and influence public discourse. This groundbreaking analysis examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H....
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Once Upon a Time in Africa: Stories of Wisdom and JoyThis collection of stories from Africa brings us to a place where the elders gather the children around the fire at night and narrate the stories and events that make them a proud and memorable people. The stories--some, myths from the past and others,...
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Olympic Park BombingThis title examines the crimes of Eric Robert Rudolph, the bomber whose attack on the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, gained worldwide attention. Readers will learn about the massive manhunt for Rudolph, his years in hiding, and how he was finally captured. Features...
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Old SouthSheds new light on the people and events that shaped the US south. It deftly shows how the South's diverse people interacted with each other in ways that affect the region and the nation to this day. Each chapter is accompanied by historical documents...
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Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War IINisei Linguists, first published in 2006, is a fascinating, well-documented look at the World War II service performed by second-generation Japanese-Americans in World War II. The men, serving as interpreters and translators for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service, made valuable contributions to the...
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Nature RebornSantmire's much-acclaimed The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology documented the unfortunate legacy of many Christian theological notions in the use, abuse, and destruction of the natural world, along with its positive aspects. This new brief, but penetrating, look at...
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Native American History - North America: Quickstudy Lamninated Reference & Study GuideEssential history of the indigenous people of North America in relation to America. This is not an indigenous peoples history related to their individual tribes. A difficult history to tell for many reasons, at least 800 distinct Native peoples inhabited most parts of North...
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My Town by a River: Vignettes of Chatham, New JerseyChatham, New Jersey is a small town situated on the banks of the Passaic River. The first visitors were the Lenni Lenape Indians who stopped in Chatham on their annual migration from Sussex County to the Atlantic Ocean. They called the river the 'Fishawack"....
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My Palestine: An Impossible ExileA memoir that combines political and economic commentary with personal and national history. Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family were forced to evacuate their village together with its entire population, after the Zionist victory that...
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"My Old Carpetbagger": How a Yankee Saved the Capital from Rebel Invaders, Led Virginia Republicans during Reconstruction and Fought GovernmeDuring the Civil War, not all Southemers were secessionists. Not all Yankees who later came south were "carpetbaggers" bent on exploiting their former foes. This book portrays exceptions to both rules - Simon Elliot Chamberlin, a Union cavalry officer who relocated to northern Virginia,...
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Modern Chinese Theologies: Volume 3: Academic and DiasporicIt is well known that the Chinese church (and therefore Chinese theology) has been divided in the People's Republic of China into "registered" and "unregistered" churches, and that while the state-approved church offers theologies that align with the nation's socialist values, the unregistered or...
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Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth CenturyIn Mission Manifest, Matthew Shannon argues that American evangelicals were central to American-Iranian relations during the decades leading up to the 1979 revolution. These Presbyterian missionaries and other Americans with ideals worked with US government officials, nongovernmental organizations, and their Iranian counterparts as cultural...
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