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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Islamic Art and Visual CultureIslamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primary sources in translation accompanied by clear and concise introductory essays that provide unique insights into the aesthetic and cultural history of one of the world's major religions. Collects essential translations from sources as diverse...
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ReformationThe Reformation: A Brief History is a succinct and engaging introduction to the origins and history of the Protestant Reformation. A rich overview of the Reformation, skillfully blending social, political, religious and theological dimensions A clearly and engagingly written narrative which draws on the...
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Late Antique Art PLate Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean World is a much-needed teaching anthology that rethinks and broadens the scope of the stale and limiting classifications used for Early Christian-Byzantine visual arts. A comprehensive anthology offering a new approach to the visual arts classified...
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A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European GermansThe genocidal barbarism of the Nazi forces has been well documented. What is little known is the fate of fifteen million German civilians who found themselves on the wrong side of new postwar borders. All over Eastern Europe, the inhabitants of communities that had...
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Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in GuatemalaBetween the late 1970s and the mid 1980s, Guatemala was torn by a civil war which came to be known as La Violencia. During this time of mass terror and extreme violence, more than 600 massacres occurred in villages destroyed by the army, one...
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The History of ChileWithin Chile is the driest desert in the world, the highest mountain range in the hemisphere, temperate rainforests, and a piece of Antarctica. In all these areas Chileans have created unique communities and, together, a vibrant nation. Chile's history mirrors its geographic variety. From...
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A History of IrelandA History of Ireland explores the story of Ireland from the 12th century to the present day. This new edition has been revised, updated and expanded to take into account the latest scholarship and major recent political, economic, social, and cultural events.Author: Mike Cronin,...
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The Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American CuisineEver wonder how certain foods came to be such huge staples of American culinary history? In this fascinating mashup between history book and cook book, one of America's Founding Fathers could be at the source!Food writer Dave DeWitt entertainingly describes how some of America's...
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Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical TruthA distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.In 2010, David Mark Hall gave a lecture at the Heritage...
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Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New OrleansDecember 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militarily superior English crown. With an enormous enemy armada approaching New Orleans, two unlikely allies teamed up to repel...
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Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of ScienceThe gripping, entertaining, and vividly-told narrative of a radical discovery that sent shockwaves through the scientific community and forever changed the way we understand the world. Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and...
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The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern WorldThomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame.At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and...
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKThe assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner...
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Paris in Mind: From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes, from Saul Bellow to David Sedaris: Three Centuries of Americans Writing about Thei"Paris is a moveable feast," Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, and in this captivating anthology, American writers share their pleasures, obsessions, and quibbles with the great city and its denizens. Mark Twain celebrates the unbridled energy of the Can-Can. Sylvia Beach recalls the excitement of...
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The Good Women of China: Hidden VoicesWhen Deng Xiaoping s efforts to open up China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was...
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of AfricaIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history-from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in Monrovia, to the...
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The Translation of Surah Al-Fatihah and Surah Al-Baqarah English EditionThe Translation also The Meaning of Surah Al-Fatihah and Surah Al-Baqarah from The Holy Quran In English Languange Color Version. Sarat al-Fatiḥah is the first chapter (surah) of the Quran. Its seven verses (ayat) are a prayer for the guidance, lordship and mercy of...
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US Constitution: Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and AmendmentsThis book contains the three most pivotal documents in American history, in easy-to-read large print: The United States Declaration of Independence, adopted at the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia in July 1776. The US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the collective term...
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Religio Medici: The Religion of a Doctor - a Classic Treatise of Spiritual and Philosophical Self-Reflection, dating to 1642 (HardcoveReligio Medici, the timeless book of personal contemplations by renowned polymath Sir Thomas Browne, is presented here complete. Written by Browne during the 1640s as a means of profiling his psyche in a spiritual testament to the divine, Religio Medici - in English, Religion...
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Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt RaidMartin Caidin's Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid tells of the United States Air Force's massive bombing raid into Nazi Germany's industrial heartland on Thursday, October 14, 1943. On that fateful day two hundred and ninety one hulking B-17 Flying Fortresses -...
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