History
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 Time of the Stick and the Carrot: Story of a Year, October 1942 to September 1943First published in 1944, this indispensable historical work covers the dramatic year from October 1942 to September 1943-a period which produced a series of military and political crises in Italy which led to the overthrow of Benito Mussolini and the fall of Fascism.Written by...
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Raoul 'Sonny' Balcaen: My Exciting True-Life Story in Motor Racing from Top-Fuel Drag-Racing Pioneer to Jim Hall, Reventlow Scarab, Carroll SRaoul 'Sonny' Balcaen grew up in Los Angeles at a time when it became the epicentre of American motor racing, nurturing a vast talent pool of people whose influence has echoed through to today. As a teenager, he successfully competed with his home-built Top...
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900 Letters: Marriage, Movies, and the MarianasThere were over six million marriages in the United States during World War II, 1.7 million in 1944 alone. Six million love stories, each unique, each special, all of them taking place against a backdrop of terrible world conflict. Because of the war, many...
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Taking Arizona: A brief look at Army Forts, Camps, and Key Players in early ArizonaThe Arizona Territory was created in 1863 from the Western half of what was known as the New Mexico Territory. Arizona remained a territory until 1912 when it became America's 48th state.Until the late 1600s, when the Spanish began to arrive, Arizona's Indians had...
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The School and Society"We are apt to look at the school from an individualistic standpoint, as something between teacher and pupil, or between teacher and parent. That which interests us most is naturally the progress made by the individual child of our acquaintance, his normal physical development,...
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Physiological Disorders in Motorbike Riders and Vehicle ParametersThe musculoskeletal system is an organ system that enables an organism to move, support and maintain stability during movements. It is made up of skeleton, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and joints. Skeletal muscles are attached to the bones andkeep the bones in place. To...
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The Piklers: A Family Odyssey on Three ContinentsThis book has its origins in a shoebox full of family names and scribbled notes that George M. Pikler has kept since childhood when he developed a life-long fascination with the history of his family. George belongs to the sixth out of eight known...
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A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their UniversityShortly before David Lowry Swain's thirty-second birthday, the North Carolina General Assembly elected him the state's twenty-sixth governor. He remains its youngest. In the context of his time he was an activist executive, prodding the state to develop its infrastructure, thereby promoting economic development,...
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Haiti Between Pestilence and Hope: The Progressive Ideals from the Revolution of 1804 Set the PaceHaiti Between Pestilence and Hope: The Progressive Ideals from the Revolution of 1804 Set the Pace brilliantly presents Haiti's entire socio-political and economic history with poignant analysis into a mere eight chapters.From the relatively peaceful and stable pre-colonial period, to the illustrious independence victory,...
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The Oldest Art of Siberia: Technologies, Forms, SymbolsPrimitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient society.Author: Liudmila V. Lbova, Pavel V. VolkovPublisher: Academica PressPublished: 12/28/2022Pages:...
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New York in Pictures - an illustrated tour of NYC & facts about its famous sites: Learn about the Big Apple while looking at colorful engaging artworkHello and welcome to this marvelous collection of detailed colorful illustrations, along with useful facts of New York City's famous sites. You will feel like you are going on a tour of New York City and its surroundings.Here you will find artistic pictures and...
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Common Sense for the 21st Century: A Call to Reinvest in American DemocracyThe state of affairs for America in 1776 was a divided public regarding how to move forward with respect to Great Britain. Many colonists wanted to stay loyal to King George and work things out, even though they had experienced many insults to their...
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The Sumerian Civilization: An Enthralling Overview of Sumer and the Ancient SumeriansHow much do you know about the "cradle of civilization?" Come explore the legacy of the brilliant ancient Mesopotamians who transformed the world. Ancient Mesopotamia's legacy was truly revolutionary. Childlike pictures scratched into wet clay evolved into the first written language. The Mesopotamians wrote...
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The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century VirginiaThe Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia changes the narrative about the origins of race and Whiteness in America. With an exhaustive array of archival documents, Carmen P. Thompson demonstrates not only that Whiteness predates European expansion to the...
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The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume IV: Reactions to ColonialismThe collection of essays in this volume offers an overview of scholarly approaches to the ways in which diverse actors, representing the colonised or the colonising nations, or indeed the international community, reacted to colonialism during the lifetime of the modern colonial empires or...
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A Life in Another TimeA Life in Another Time is a true story of growing up in Mississippi, mainly during the nineteen-fifties and -sixties. The narrative is fast paced with a sense of humor and gives a rare insight into the thinking and feelings of a Southern teenager...
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Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of EmpireA profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. Traditional interpretations of the British Empire's emerging success and expansion have long overshadowed the deep uncertainty that...
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The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War--An Oral HistoryThe first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians...
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ChinaWelcome to China--home of the Great Wall of China, the terracotta warriors of Xi'an, and giant pandas! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about China's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps,...
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Blackholes: Every Thing You Need to Know About It for Space Agencies (The Key to Understanding the Universe): The Key to UnderstanBlack hole are the most fascinating object of this universe.there were always thousands of question revolving around my mind about black holes when i was a teenager. To find answer to those questions i read a lot of books.i tried to put all those...
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