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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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California: The Great ExceptionIn 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years--its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns. As he examined the reasons for the prodigious growth and productivity that...
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Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian AgeAndre Gunder Frank asks us to ReOrient our views away from Eurocentrism--to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns...
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Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated EditionWhen the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency's connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War...
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Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth CenturyWolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night revelas the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. In his strikingly illustrated and lively narrative,...
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Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century SpainBranded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de León had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal. Based upon surviving transcripts of...
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Life Is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua"Rambo took the barrios by storm: Spanish videotapes of the movie were widely available, and nearly all the boys and young men had seen it, usually on the VCRs of their family's more affluent friends. . . . As one young Sandinista commented, 'Rambo...
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Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age Volume 1The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary...
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In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, VirginiaSince the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home...
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The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990 Volume 2Baudelaire's famous description of "the best criticism" as "entertaining and poetic, not coldly analytic," lives in the essays of Peter Schjeldahl. Schjeldahl self-consciously continues the modern tradition of art criticism crafted by poet-critics, providing a sharp perspective on individual artists, their work, art-world events,...
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Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of...
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UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century Volume 4At head of title: International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa (UNESCO).Author: Joseph KI-ZerboPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 05/10/1998Pages: 277Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.80dISBN: 9780520066991
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UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition: Methodology and African Prehistory Volume 1Volume I of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations and...
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African-Americans in the Thirteen ColoniesChildren can imagine being witnesses to history-in-the-making in this series that explores important events in United States history.Author: Deborah Ann KentPublisher: Children's Press(CT)Published: 09/01/1996Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.40h x 7.84w x 0.13dISBN: 9780516200651Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.9Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz...
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Gateways to ArtA flexible structure that supports teaching and learning, a global perspective, and a focus on visual analysis have quickly made Gateways to Art the best-selling book for art appreciation. With an unmatched illustration program and a wealth of tightly integrated digital resources, the Third...
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Pocket Museum: Ancient EgyptThis magnificently illustrated book brings together 200 of the finest and most significant Ancient Egyptian treasures and artifacts preserved in museums in North America and around the world.Spanning some 5,000 years, Ancient Egyptian art was the product of a complex, interlinked series of beliefs...
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Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial RomeThis is the first book to focus on the succession of rulers of imperial Rome, using timelines and other visual aids throughout. Now no one need be in any doubt as to who built the Colosseum or when Rome was sacked by the Goths:...
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Robin HoodThe legend of Robin Hood began more than 600 years ago. The man, if he existed at all, lived even earlier. In this definitive work, Professor Sir James Holt, one of Britain's premier historians and author of the standard work on the Magna Carta,...
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Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and ArchaeologyThe ancient Greeks saw men and women as expressing varying degrees of a single sexual potential; many Native American societies considered sexual identity as something that changed and developed during a lifetime, and recognized three or four categories of sexual identity. Ranging from the...
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The Pre-RaphaelitesSurveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society.Author: Timothy HiltonPublisher: Thames & HudsonPublished: 02/01/1985Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.29h x 5.86w x 0.60dISBN: 9780500201022This title is only...
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Primary Source Reader for World History, Volume II: Since 1500Save money with PRIMARY SOURCE READER FOR WORLD HISTORY, VOLUME II, SINCE 1500 Brief and inexpensive, this primary source reader gives you a broad perspective of the history of the world. Readings are divided into parts covering eras and are organized according to themes...
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