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 Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941This volume contains a collection of memoirs by Herbert Hoover, concentrating on the Great Depression, its origins, and its effects. Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 - 1964) was an American businessman, engineer and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from...
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Vintage Journal Arkansas State FlagThe Vintage Pocket Journal Arkansas State Flag features an illustration of the Arkansas state flag attached to a pointy flagpole against a background that fades from green to yellow. Beneath the flag is a group of stars and ""Arkansas"" written in red. This journal...
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The Farming LadderFirst published in 1943, "The Farming Ladder" aims to explain how the reader may start and maintain a successful and profitable farm in the easiest way possible, without requiring a great deal of special knowledge or skills. With original ideas and a wealth of...
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The Smith - The Traditions And Lore Of An Ancient CraftA charming history of metalwork and blacksmithing. It includes many customs, traditions, stories and anecdotes from through history regarding smithwork. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing...
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Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British DiplomatThe centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret...
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The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of England1066 saw three kings of England, the last of whom was William, Duke of Normandy. Tradition tells us the conquest of England by the powerful Normans was inescapable, and suggests England benefited almost at once from closer links with Europe. But new discoveries have...
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Geoffrey of Monmouth's Life of Merlin: A New Verse TranslationFor the first time in English, Mark Walker presents a verse translation of the twelfth-century epic poem by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the originator of many of the Arthurian legends familiar to us today. Here is the original Merlin - a mysterious and mad character...
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London on Fire: A Great City at the Time of the Great FireWelcome to London in the late 17th century. After years of Civil War and repressive Puritan rule, King Charles II is back in town and his restoration has brought new life to this great city. The theatres are open again, markets and shops are...
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Britain in the Past: Stone AgeStone Age takes you on a journey through Britain between 2.5 million and 4,500 years ago, allowing young readers to imagine themselves taking part in life in the Stone Ages. Britain in the Past aims to give younger children an understanding of everyday life...
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After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne FrankTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope'GUARDIAN, 'Books to Give You Hope' 'Remarkable . . . Makes it clear just what an achievement...
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The Healing HandA self-help book dedicated to healing both physical and mental health through the agency of the hand. First published in 1922, The Healing Hand is divided into three sections: teaching the principles of healing through the use of the hand, the spoken word, and...
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Letters From An American FarmerThis vintage book contains a collection of letters written by an American farmer on Nantucket island, Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. Within the letters, the author describes to a friend in England his life as a farmer, while also explaining the manners and...
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Imperial Republics: Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French RevolutionRepublicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France.Many scholars...
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Momigliano and Antiquarianism: Foundations of the Modern Cultural SciencesOne of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) is known for his path-breaking studies of ancient Greek and Roman history. The encyclopedic knowledge of the ancient world that Momigliano brought to his work, however, enabled him to make connections between...
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Fields of Fire: The Canadians in NormandyWith Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure - that the allies won only through the use of brute force, and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially...
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Promised Land PB: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and BeyondEschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday...
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One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern OntarioThere's a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High's One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada's resource periphery. Much like hundreds of...
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The 'Annals' of Flodoard of Reims, 919-966This fascinating account is the principal source for a number of momentous political developments leading up to the millennium. These include struggles among the Carolingians, the rise of the Saxon dynasty in Germany, and various Viking and Magyar raids. Academics please note that this...
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their FriendsWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Ann es folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them--one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line,...
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Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War: The End of the American CenturyIn Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, accomplished foreign relations historian David F. Shmitz provides students of US history and the Vietnam era with an up-to-date analysis of Nixon's Vietnam policy in a brief and accessible book that addresses the main controversies of the...
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