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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Civil War SoldiersThe soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and Confederate men went to war as Americans, convinced they fought an un-American, savage...
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City of Tears: The Dark History of ParisIf you were standing on the very spot where Joan of Arc was wounded by an arrow, wouldn't you want to know? Beneath the brilliance and the grandeur of Paris is a city that few people know. It lingers in the dark shadows of...
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Cinnabar Fields Seven Years in Lianyungang, ChinaA true story of wonder, romance, cultural adaptation, heartache, a potential new career path and family abroad: Cinnabar Fields is Garrett Bradway's personal record of his seven-year long stay in a small Chinese city. He arrived in the urban center of Lianyungang, Jiangsu province,...
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Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow (New York)This delightful volume is the perfect companion to Henry Steiner's The Place Names of Historic Sleepy Hollow & Tarrytown. From the legend of Sleepy Hollow to the capture of John Andr (Benedict Arnold's co-conspirator); and from the first Dutch settlement to the American Revolution,...
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Catálogo De Plantas Mexicanas (fanerógamas)...Una obra fundamental para los amantes de la botánica y la ecología. Este catálogo recoge una amplia variedad de plantas fanerógamas nativas de México, con información detallada sobre su hábitat, su morfología y sus propiedades medicinales.This work has been selected by scholars as being...
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Catholicism at a Crossroads: The Present and Future of America's Largest ChurchOffers a big picture analysis of American Catholicism The Catholic Church is at a crossroads. In the United States alone there are many challenges facing the church that are both internal and external to the institution. With the rise of the growing Gen Z...
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our PrisonsIt is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist intent in the prison system that culminates in what Brittany Friedman terms carceral apartheid. Prisons are a...
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Caravaggio and the Creation of ModernityNow in paperback, an accessible and beautifully illustrated account of Caravaggio as a catalyst for modernity. Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would develop a radically new kind of psychologically expressive, realistic art and, in the sixteenth...
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Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of ScotsAn expert historian on Mary, Queen of Scots draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint a vivid portrait of one of history's most compelling figures. For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was...
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Canada: The First 20,000 YearsThe history of Canada can seem like a subject as large and expansive as the country itself, and for those of us who haven't attended a history class in a while, it may just feel too big to tackle. Academic histories full of footnotes...
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Buddhism: A Journey Through HistoryOne of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern India to become...
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British Romanticism and Prison ReformIn eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century--with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment--did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison,...
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Britain's Empires: A History, 1600-2020For more than four centuries, Britons have been dominating and colonising other peoples and territories. Britain's Empires tells that story without flinching from the oppressive and exploitative side of the imperial mission that shaped world history. It also aims to tell the story of...
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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect UnionFrom journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived...
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Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's HealthA pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemic Every single child diagnosed with measles represents a system failure--an inexcusable unforced error. The technology to prevent essentially 100 percent...
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Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic MythA landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth--how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century, following the death of twelve-year-old William of...
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Black Side of the White HouseI made a commitment to myself that my education and life journey would be focused on helping others in the areas of employment and civil rights, both on the job and in my community. God would bless me by creating an opening for me...
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Blacks against Brown: The Intra-racial Struggle over Segregated Schools in Topeka, KansasBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) is regarded as one of the most significant civil rights moments in American history. Historical observers have widely viewed this landmark Supreme Court decision as a significant sign of racial progress for African Americans. However,...
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Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico CityIn this extraordinary new book, Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, showing how it became central to the economic and political life of the city. The story centers on the untold history...
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Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of MourningA poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature--everywhere, if you know how to see it. In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to convey the...
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