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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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Josephine Baker's Secret War: The African American Star Who Fought for France and FreedomThe full story of Josephine Baker's wartime and intelligence work in France and North Africa Before the Second World War, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was one of the most famous performers in the world. She made her name dancing on the Parisian stage, but when...
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Joseph Goebbels: The biography of the Nazi Propaganda Minister as Master of Illusion and the GestapoJoseph Goebbels's story delves into the life of the infamous Nazi politician who wielded propaganda as a powerful weapon in the service of Adolf Hitler's regime. As Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and later Reich Minister of Propaganda, Goebbels was...
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John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual FatherFrom New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan comes "a beautifully written testimony about . . . the most historically recognized pope" (Library Journal) With such accla imed books as When Character Was King, Peggy Noonan has become one of our most eloquent and...
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John Knox: Fearless FaithJohn Knox is one of the most colourful figures in church history and his impact is still felt around the world. The real story of Knox surpasses the best fiction novels. Five hundred years after his death, Steven Lawson seeks in this book to...
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John Company's Armies: The Military Forces of British India 1824-57Explores the unique multi-ethnic British Indian armies under the East India Company.The armies of British India were, as one of its members wrote, 'the most extraordinary phenomenon in the history of the world.' Multi-ethnic, composed of men of diverse ethnicities and faiths, under the...
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Johannes Vermeer: On ReflectionThe Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window by Johannes Vermeer is one of the most famous works of seventeenth-century Dutch art. Preserved at the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, the painting has been restored, in an elaborate process lasting from 2017 to...
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Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in BooksA critical biography of the mysterious but prolific medieval printer. Johannes Gutenberg is famous as the inventor of Europe's first typographic printing method, and his life and legacy have long fascinated a wide audience. Due to scant and vague fifteenth-century documentation, however, Gutenberg's career...
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Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest EmpireA new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss. Jews vs. Rome is a gripping account of one of the most momentous eras in human history: the...
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Jesus Von NazarethZu diesem Werk bin ich lange innerlich unterwegs gewesen. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedikt XVI. Das Werk "Jesus von Nazareth" hat auf der ganzen Welt Millionen Menschen zur Auseinandersetzung mit ihrem Glauben gebracht. Niemals zuvor hat ein Papst so sehr Einblick in sein eigenes Suchen nach Gott...
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Jesus' Fulfilment of the Torah and Prophets: Inherited Strategies and Torah Interpretation in Matthew's GospelSteven James Stiles examines Jesus' teaching about the Torah in the Gospel according to Matthew as a participant and contributor to the larger phenomenon of writing texts about the Torah in Second Temple Judaism. In this light, Matthew's presentation of Jesus and his teaching...
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Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved EuropeJan Sobieski was one of the most extraordinary and visionary monarchs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 until his death. He was a man of letters, an artistic person, a dedicated ruler but above all the greatest soldier of his time. Popular among his...
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Jahrbuch Des Kolnischen Geschichtsvereins 85Das 85. Jahrbuch des Kolnischen Geschichtsvereins setzt die Untersuchung der Turme und Mauern Kolns im Mittelalter aus Band 84 fort und gibt Einblicke in ein rheinisches Bauernleben im 18. Jahrhundert am Beispiel Johannes Hunselers. Es veroffentlicht biographische Aufsatze uber Oskar Jager und die historische...
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I've Been to the Mountaintop \ He Estado En La Cima de la Monta?a (Spanish Ed.)Author: Martin Luther KingPublisher: HarperCollins EspanolPublished: 08/27/2024Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.36dISBN: 9780063384026Language: Spanish
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Irish FreedomA compelling and authoritative history of Irish nationalism from the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Armed Struggle Author: Richard EnglishPublisher: Pan PublishingPublished: 04/01/2008Pages: 625Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.70dISBN: 9780330427593Review Citation(s): Library Journal 11/01/2008 pg. 85About the AuthorRichard English is...
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Iranshahr and the Downfall of the Sassanid Dynasty: Persia at the Eve of the Arab InvasionsThe Sassanid Persia (224-651 CE) has received increasing attention in both Western and domestic scholarship, not to mention within Iranians in general, particularly in the last three decades. The 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent establishment of the theoretic-clerical regime, the apparent failure of...
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Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean WorldThe first interdisciplinary study of the history of contact between Iranians and the peoples and polities of the Indian Ocean. Most of the historiography of the Iranian world focuses on interactions and migrations between Iran, Central Asia and India. Nonetheless, this Iranian world was...
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Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth CenturyThe Middle Ages, in our cultural imagination, are besieged with ideas of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights, lords and ladies. In his era-defining work, Inventing the Middle Ages, Norman Cantor shows that these presuppositions are in fact constructs of the twentieth century....
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In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a ReckoningWinner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award In this "courageous and compelling ... essential and critically important" book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in...
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In the Land of the Lacand?n: A Graphic History of Adventure and ImperialismIn the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacand?n people and broadcast their way of life to a curious European public. Considered a "lost tribe," the Lacand?n were thought to...
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Intellektuelle: Karrieren Und Krisen Einer Figur Vom Mittelalter Bis Zur GegenwartIntellektuelle gibt es in den Gesellschaften Europas seit dem Mittelalter und bis heute. Sie sind gelehrte Experten und zugleich kritische Begleiter des Zeitgeschehens, gehoren zur Wissenskultur der Universitaten und sind als kritische Kopfe eigenstandige, oft unangepasste Denker, die als Mahner und Kritiker haufig gefragt...
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