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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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Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always FallIn The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire, what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment,...
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The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the PastIn The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel that their country is great...
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How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a ScientistIn How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics. Townes was inventor of the maser, of which the laser is one example; an originator of spectroscopy using microwaves; and a...
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Remarkable Plants That Shape Our WorldImagine a typical morning--munching on a bowl of cereal, sipping coffee, dressing for the day, riding to work. Every moment of this common routine draws on the power of plants, and the centuries of development that brought wheat, coffee beans, cotton, and rubber--among many...
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Faceva Caldo a MilanoI giorni " infuocati" dello scontro fra fascisti e social-comunisti nella Milano del 1922, poco prima della Marcia su Roma. L' assalto a Palazzo Marino, sede dell' amministrazione comunale di Milano, da parte delle Camicie Nere . Pagine di Storia, rievocate con la partecipazione...
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The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil WarHistorical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell...
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History of the Inca RealmHistory of the Inca Realm is a classic work of ethnohistorical research that has been both influential and provocative in the field of Andean prehistory. Maria Rostworowski uses a great variety of published and unpublished documents and secondary works by Latin American, North American,...
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary FranceHis latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make fascinating reading more...
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Hieroglyphs: A Very Short IntroductionHieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years. This ancient form of expression was used as art, as a means of identifying Egyptian-ness, even for...
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When Egypt Ruled the EastHere, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture. Significant archeological discoveries are...
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Isaac NewtonHere is a man with an imagination so large that just ?by thinking on it, ? he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Kathleen Krull presents a portrait of Isaac Newton that will challenge your beliefs about a genius whose...
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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan WitchcraftHere is a book that brings witchcraft out of the shadows. The Triumph of the Moon is the first full-scale study of the only religion England has ever given the world--modern pagan witchcraft, otherwise known as wicca. Meticulously researched, it provides a thorough account...
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History of FinlandHenrik Meinander paints a brisk and bold picture of the history of Finland from integrated part of the Swedish kingdom to autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, gradually transformed and maturing into a conscious nation, independent state and skilful adapter of modern technology.The...
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Trad of the New PBHarold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term Action Painters to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock, Kline, and de Kooning. Rosenberg's seminal writings on this movement,...
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The International Relations of the Persian GulfGregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain ended its protectorate relations with the smaller states of the lower Gulf....
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The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient GreeceGreek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts - stories of mortal women's couplings with gods; rituals like the basilinna's marriage to Dionysus; beliefs in the impregnating power of snakes and deities; the unusual birth stories of Pythagoras, Plato, and Alexander; and more. In...
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Giles of Rome's on Ecclesiastical Power: A Medieval Theory of World GovernmentGiles of Rome was the archbishop of Bourges and a loyal champion of Pope Boniface VIII during the Franco-papal crisis of 1296-1303. On Ecclesiastical Power was written at the height of the conflict between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV of France and...
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Sojourner Truth: Voice for FreedomGet to know the activist Sojourner Truth in this middle grade nonfiction biography of her early years!Sojourner Truth was born into slavery under the name Isabella Bomfree. As an adult she gained freedom for herself and two of her children, then began working as...
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the NationGeorge Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the...
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Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on TerrorismGeoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and...
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