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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Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer: An InterventionThe works covered in college art history classes frequently depict violence against women. Traditional survey textbooks highlight the impressive formal qualities of artworks depicting rape, murder, and other violence but often fail to address the violent content and context. Gender Violence, Art, and the...
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Frozen in Time: What Ice Cores Can Tell Us about Climate ChangeAuthor: Carmella Van VleetPublisher: Holiday HousePublished: 01/21/2025Pages: 112Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsISBN: 9780823460168Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorCarmella Van Vleet is a former elementary school teacher and the author of numerous books for children, including To the Stars!, which was co-authored by astronaut Kathy Sullivan and...
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From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth CenturyDrawing on extensive research in her native Ecuador, Amalia Pallares examines the South American Indian movement in the Ecuadorian Andes and explains its shift from class politics to racial politics in the late twentieth century. Pallares uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the reasons...
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From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in ChinaHow the world's largest e-commerce market highlights a digital path to development How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule of law, contract enforcement, and loan access. In From Click to...
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Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to ExileFreedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people...
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Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to ExileFreedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people...
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France 1900. a Portrait in ColorThe turn of the 20th century was a golden era in France. It was an age of peace, prosperity, and progress after a series of bruising wars and turmoil within the French Republic, culminating in the Franco-Prussian War, which had ended in 1871. From...
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Flashback to 1950 - A Time Traveler's Guide: Celebrating the people, places, politics and pleasures that made 1950 a very special year. Perfect birthd- - - Also available in other years - - -Let's FLASHBACK to 1950 ─ a very special year. Was this the year you were born? Was this the year you were married? Let's travel back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR...
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Fire and Fury#1 New York Times Bestseller With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Since Donald Trump was...
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Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvelous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON, author, Slow Horses 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' PETINA GAPPAH, author, Out of Darkness, Shining Light Since the discovery of the wreck of...
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Federalist Papers Renewed: Hamilton's Blueprint for Restoring the American DreamStep into the realm of political enlightenment as envisioned what Alexander Hamilton would say about the United States today. The ghost of Hamilton breathes new life into the hallowed pages of the Federalist Papers. In "Federalist Papers Renewed," witness a stirring revival of Hamilton's...
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Fatal Intentions: True Canadian Crime StoriesUsing contemporary accounts, Barbara Smith vividly recreates a number of murder cases from 1920s Nova Scotia to 1980s British Columbia.Author: Barbara SmithPublisher: Dundurn PressPublished: 07/26/1996Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36dISBN: 9780888821676About the AuthorBarbara Smith writes full-time and has been published...
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Faster Than a Cannonball: 1995 and All ThatDecades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs...
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Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of ImpressionismA wide-ranging exploration of art, gastronomy, and national identity in fin-de-si?cle France At the end of the nineteenth century, artists such as Claude Monet, Eva Gonzalès, and Paul Gauguin took as their subject France's relationship with food. The country's bountiful agriculture and the skill...
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Failed Historical Scientific InstrumentsCan a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shedding light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed. The essays show how diverse failures...
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Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the TsunamiKirkus Best Books of the Year - Kansas City Star Best Books of the YearA passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to...
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Exporting Reconstruction: Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of LibertyHow Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core ideals Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's Reconstruction-era policy, both foreign and domestic, as an integrated whole. Grant's vision for America's international role in the aftermath of the Civil War was best articulated...
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Esther Against Joseph's Backdrop: The Theology and History of an Intertextual RelationshipAn examination of MT Esther's relationship to the Joseph story, this study employs recent advances in author-oriented biblical intertextuality to address the debate concerning the religious purpose of the Scroll. While previous scholarship has seen Esther's divine silence indicating God's hidden hand, the characters'...
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Erie's Great Mausoleum Mystery: Ghouls, Grave Robbers & ExtortionErie's Shocking Turn of the Century Extortion Scandal On February 8, 1911, the Scott Mausoleum, a symbol of wealth for the Scott and Strong families in Erie, Pennsylvania, was desecrated by unknown vandals, coined by nationwide papers as ghouls. With the inside of the...
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Enigmatic FREEMASONRYThis historic book will familiarize you with one of the very mysterious and secret societies in the world of all time: Freemasonry. There are many myths and legends surrounding this highly secretive organization all over the world. This makes people scared and, at the...
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