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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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The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle AgesIlluminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insight into both the early history of the book and life in the Middle Ages. This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world....
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The Meaning of the Second World WarThe very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel (author of the acclaimed Late Capitalism) outlines...
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts* A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among...
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The Little Book of Skiing: Wonder, Wit & Wisdom for the Slopes"A huge number of people ski, and this fun little book looks at all aspects of what makes it so appealing. For some, it's a serene communication with nature as they glide down a gentle slope in silence, for others it's a 100-miles-an-hour descent...
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching CrusaderThe broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women's rights pioneer Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks's courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up...
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The Largest Sea Island: A History of Johns Island amid an Evolving AmericaDive into a rich historical journey of Johns Island. Uncover its place in the Lowcountry, the South, and the Nation. Explore from colonial days to today's growth challenges. A must-read for history enthusiasts. Lee Glover's The Largest Sea Island takes you on an enlightening...
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The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American FarmerA firsthand perspective on the modern farmer's struggle against drought, disease, insects, rodents, government bureaucracy, financial overload--and how those challenges promote qualities like independence, stoicism, and resolution. Before storms that can destroy his crops in an instant, the farmer stands implacable. To fluctuations in...
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The Kebra Nagast: The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son MenyelekWhat did Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley and Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia have in common? A love for the Kebra Negast, holy book of Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians. Contemporary scholars date the Kebra Negast to the 14th century, but it retells...
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The Islam BookThis comprehensive, accessible, and authenticated guide to Islam is essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion. This essential guide to Islam covers every aspect of the Muslim faith and its history - from the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the teachings of the...
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The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of ChildhoodThe story begins with the abandonment of the newborn Agata Smeralda on February 5, 1445, in Florence's Hospital of the Innocents, the first--but certainly not the last--child to be left at its doors. In an era when children were frequently abandoned, often trafficked or...
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The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War." --Civil War HistoryDavid M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is "the classic study of of antebellum America" (American Prospect). Potter's sweeping epic...
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The History Trees: Extraordinary Tales of Trees Through TimeThe ultimate photographic collection of the most historic trees on the planet. Uncover remarkable trees from around the world, many of which have borne witness to key moments in history or reached a scale and age that have allowed them to become a part...
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The History of Money: A Story of HumanityIn this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money--from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley. The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No innovation has defined our own evolution so thoroughly...
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The Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place in America That Nobody's Ever Heard ofIn the summer of 2014, a strange thing happened to one of the largest freshwater bodies on the planet: Lake Erie's western shore turned bright green with toxic algae that could have killed 400,000 Ohioans. Stranger still, it was kind of Patrick Wensink's fault....
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The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle AgesAn unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval Africa From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an...
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the WorldMary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of...
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The Eastern FrontA gripping first-person memoir of soldierly sacrifice, heroism and fierce combat against numerically superior Soviet forces during World War II, by a charismatic Belgian writer and politician turned Waffen SS front-line infantryman. In a laudatory review appearing in an official US Army Department magazine,...
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." --Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little...
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The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IVFrom an acclaimed historian comes an epic tale of power and betrayal: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose tumultuous reigns shaped the course of English history. Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just three months...
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The Dream Factory: London's First Playhouse and the Making of William ShakespeareHow Shakespeare became Shakespeare: a riveting tale of London's first playhouse and the people--actors, writers, builders, investors--who built the Theatre. Between 1576 and 1598, a playhouse called the Theatre stood in the northeast suburbs of London, until it was secretly torn down and its...
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