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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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Cultural Translation: The Haskalah Library and the Making of the Modern JewTowards the end of the eighteenth century, the maskilim, a group of young Jewish intellectuals who were starving for universal knowledge and for engagement with wider social circles, set out to reform Jewish society by expanding its cultural boundaries and building a bridge to...
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Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After SocialismCultural Capitalism explores Russian literature's eager embrace of capitalism in the post-Soviet era. When the Soviet Union fell, books were suddenly bought and sold as commodities. Russia's first bestseller lists brought attention and prestige. Even literary prizes turned to the market for legitimacy. The...
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Crusading, Society, and Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of King Peter I of CyprusThe King of Cyprus, Peter I of Lusignan (1359-1369), was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of the Latin East and the later crusades. He was involved in European power politics, his crusading activities brought him into conflict with the Turkish...
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Crisis on Mount Hood: Stories from a Hundred Years of Mountain RescueIn Crisis on Mount Hood, author and emergency room doctor Christopher Van Tilburg looks at the history of America's oldest all-volunteer mountain rescue team, the Hood River Crag Rats, and his own three-decade commitment to search and rescue. Centered on Oregon's iconic 11,249-foot-high Mount...
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Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945Crisis and Crossfire traces the origins of the contemporary challenges facing the United States in the Middle East by analyzing the broad contours of U.S. policy in the region since the government's first involvement there in the 1940s. Peter L. Hahn evaluates U.S. policy...
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Crises of Memory and the Second World WarIn this acclaimed book, renowned Harvard scholar Susan Rubin Suleiman discusses individual and collective memories of World War II, as reflected in literary memoirs, autobiographical novels, works of history and philosophy, and films. Suleiman argues that memories of World War II transcend national boundaries,...
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Crafting Knowledge in the Early Medieval Book: Practices of Collecting and Concealing in the Latin WestCollection and concealment were hallmarks of early medieval book culture. Materials of all kinds were collected, collated, concealed, condensed, correlated, paraphrased, reorganised, and repurposed in early medieval manuscripts. This volume of essays explores how knowledge was made in the early medieval book in the...
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore LeonardDrawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard, is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bestsellers like Get Shorty and Raylan.Over the course of his sixty-year career, Elmore Leonard,...
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Contested Lands: A History of the Middle East from the First World War to the PresentA history of the last century of tensions in the Middle East. Until the First World War, the Ottoman Empire had dominated the Middle East for four centuries. Its collapse, coupled with the subsequent clash of European imperial policies, unleashed a surge of political...
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Constructing Iberian Identities, 1000-1700Over the past several decades, scholars of medieval and early modern Iberia have transformed the study of the region into one of the most vibrant areas of research today. This volume brings together twelve essays from a diverse group of international historians who explore...
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Colonial Congo: A History in QuestionsColonialism tends to arouse emotional debate, often based on incomplete knowledge of the facts and context. Colonial Congo fills this gap by introducing the general reader to the latest academic thinking and research. Answering concrete questions, pre-eminent historians offer a unique insight into the...
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Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the DinosaursNobel Prize-winning experimental physicist Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988) began his storied career developing the atomic bomb and went on to conduct groundbreaking work on the building of the ancient Egyptian pyramids, the assassination of JFK, and the extinction of the dinosaurs. One of the...
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Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern AcademyThis volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These scholarly societies, founded before...
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Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of EmpiresA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Though Japanese migration to Brazil started only at the turn of the twentieth century, Brazil is now the country with...
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Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Catholic Preaching and Preachers Across Manuscript and Print (C. 1450 to C. 1550)This volume concentrates on how the sermon, a pivotal element in mass communication, aimed to shape the people of Europe. Rather than setting up the usual binary divides, it highlights the linguistic complications, the textual inter-relationships, the confessional cross-currents, and the variations between public...
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Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937: Campaigner for Equality, Justice and PeaceThis historical biography of Chrystal Macmillan, one of Scotland's most prominent campaigners for women's equality, justice and peace in the early twentieth century, is the first account of her life and work. It describes her early life in a comfortable home in Edinburgh, her...
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Chronicles of Ancient AfricaTitChronicles of Ancient Africa: A Journey Through TimeDelve into the epic saga of Africa's rich and diverse history in "Chronicles of Ancient Africa: A Journey Through Time." This captivating book invites you to embark on a remarkable expedition through the annals of a continent...
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Christians in the City of Nairobi: An African City and the Future of World ChristianityIn this book Kyama Mugambi and Mark Shaw examine the diverse expressions of Christianity in Metropolitan Nairobi, a city boasting a population of ten million, which is one of the most religiously pluralistic cities in the world. Founded in 1899 as little more than...
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Christ Before Jesus: Evidence for the Second-Century Origins of JesusJesus was a real person, right? You might be surprised at what data science has to say. Christ Before Jesus presents a first-of-its-kind analysis using proven, peer-reviewed mathematics and software which reveals a second-century origin for the books of the New Testament.This book reveals...
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Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness: A Process for Reclaiming Your Full SelfA provocative interactive workbook that leads us to reclaim our true selves so we can find the peace and well-being we deserve With the publication of her electrifying New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior, Elise Loehnen--often deemed "our culture's therapist"--offered a groundbreaking...
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