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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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American Legends: The Three Stooges*Includes pictures. *Includes the Stooges' quotes about their lives and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Oh, a wise guy, eh?" - Moe Howard "I'm a victim of soicumstance." - Curly Howard "I'm sorry, Moe, it was an accident " - Larry Fine...
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America in the SeventiesTucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American history This is...
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Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the PublisherA fresh reading of Aldus Manutius, preeminent in the history of the printed book. Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest figure in the history of the printed book: in Venice, Europe's capital of printing, he invented the italic type and issued more first editions...
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A Journey Through Texas; Or, a Saddle-Trip On the Southwestern Frontier. With a Statistical AppendixThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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A History of Modern IsraelColin Shindler's remarkable history begins in 1948, as waves of immigrants arrived in Israel from war-torn Europe to establish new cities, new institutions, and a new culture founded on the Hebrew language. Optimistic beginnings were soon replaced with the sobering reality of wars with...
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A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development, 100-1500This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments foundational to modern societies took place on the mainland (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Incorporating...
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A Historian's Diary, 1935-1980Gordon A. Craig (1913-2005) was for more than half a century one of America's foremost historians of modern Germany and Europe. He was the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and, in 1982, the president of the American Historical...
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Agriculture Through the Ages: From Silk to SupermarketsAfter the last ice age, humans began to settle down and grow their own food. Learn how advances in ancient agricultural practices have aided our modern food system.Author: Michael Woods, Mary B. WoodsPublisher: Lerner Publishing GroupPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9798765625231Audience: Young Adult
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Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost TogetherVisionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced. From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or...
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Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert Fisk, The Independent Today's headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage....
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Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime EmpireThe French maritime empire enabled the continued colonization of territories all over the world from the 17th to the 19th centuries and was built upon the backs of those in lower socioeconomic classes. These classes were heavily impacted by social, political and economic structures....
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Agatha Christie at HomeThis new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill's classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world's bestselling author. Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in...
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Afroasian Encounters: Culture, History, PoliticsWith a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip...
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A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars"Leckie is a gifted writer with the ability to explain complicatedmilitary matters in layperson's terms, while sustaining the dramainvolved in a life-and-death struggle. His portraits of the keyplayers in that struggle . . . are seamlessly interwoven with hisexciting narrative." -Booklist"As always, [Leckie] describes...
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Aerial Nurse Corps of America: Lauretta Schimmoler and Leora Stroup Pilot-in AirEvacIf we are sick and require air transport, we expect a skilled flight nurse will assist us. Before 1936 this was far from reality. Air transportation of critically ill patients began sporadically during World War I, but they crammed the wounded behind the pilot's...
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Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First CenturyAcclaimed exploration of China's emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.Author: Giovanni ArrighiPublisher: VersoPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30dISBN: 9781844672981About the AuthorGiovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The...
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A Conflict Perpetuated: China Policy During the Kennedy YearsThe first comprehensive account of China policy during the Kennedy years, this study profiles John F. Kennedy as a man whose inner struggles and disparate characteristics made for an unpredictable foreign policy. While he was often a hostage to the Cold War, to constrictive...
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Aboriginal MythologyAboriginals believe they have lived in Australia since the Dreamtime, the beginning of all creation, and archaeological evidence shows the land has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years. Over this time, Aboriginal culture has grown a rich variety of mythologies in hundreds...
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Abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey: Not Without a FightSouthern New Jersey was a hotbed of slave fugitives, freedmen and abolitionists in the Civil War era. The proud 22nd Regiment of the United States Colored Troops included hundreds of Black New Jerseyans ready to fight for emancipation and the Union cause. Abolitionists such...
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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of HypochondriaPart cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria.Caroline Crampton's life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of...
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