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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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Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in World ChristianityIn Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the...
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The Art and Ideology of Terence Macswiney: Caught in the Living FlameTerence MacSwiney is most famous as the central figure in one of the great hunger strikes in world history, which culminated in his death in October 1920, aged 41, in Brixton prison, London, after a fast of 74 days. For many years prior to...
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Cheers, MR Churchill!: Winston in ScotlandIn 1922 Winston Churchill prepared to defend his parliamentary seat of Dundee in the General Election. He had represented the city since 1908, enjoyed a majority of more than 15,000 and, after five previous victories, confidently described it as a 'life seat'. But one...
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Talking Tulips - Above and BelowNineteen-year-old American airman Evan looks out the window of his B-17 Bomber while seven-year-old Mette looks out her cottage window below. Their paths are about to cross, but the path is one of kindness and appreciation. This beautifully illustrated true story demonstrates how, while...
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The Principles of Scientific ManagementFrederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 - March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. In 1911, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his...
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Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American ModernismA retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this...
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A Dynastic History of Iran: From the Qajars to the PahlavisThis rich dynastic study examines the political histories of Iran's last two monarchical dynasties, the Qajars and the Pahlavis. Tracing the rise and fall of both dynasties, Mehran Kamrava addresses essential questions about how and why they rose to power; what domestic and international...
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The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649-1653English republicanism has long been a major theme in the history of political thought, but the years of the English free state are often overlooked. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era, The Political Thought...
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Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar DemocracyFocusing on the fate of a Berlin-based newspaper during the 1920s and 1930s, Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy chronicles the transformation of a vibrant and liberal society into an oppressive and authoritarian dictatorship. Tempo proclaimed itself as "Germany's...
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Medieval Canon LawIt is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its findings in light...
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The Elizabethan Puritan MovementOriginally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for 'a further reformation'. It tells the fascinating story of the rise...
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and MurderFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The...
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The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer's Quest Through a Legacy of BetrayalHoward Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.--New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career--in this compulsive...
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Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati, and ReadingFrance, 1797: the country lies prostrate, but the revolution rages on, pulverising what little is left of a nation once considered the pinnacle of European civilisation, the apex of elegance, fashion, and refinement. 17,000 people guillotined, including the King and his wife, Marie Antoinette;...
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The Shia-Sunni Debate: An Intellectual ArgumentWhen Prophet Muhammad died in the year 11 AH, the Ummah was left with a question, what now? What is to happen to this religion? What path should we tread? Who is to carry the flag of leadership?These questions, over the course of centuries,...
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Rebels to Reels: A biography of Combat Cameraman Daniel A. McGovern USAFThis is the fascinating true-life story of the man who filmed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki only weeks after the dropping of the atomic bombs. This three-part, highly researched biography tells the full story of how the often harrowing footage we have today was shot...
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A New Golden Age of Archeology: Recent Discoveries in ArmeniaThis book uses both succinct, informative essays and beautiful, detailed photography to reveal how recent archeological discoveries in the ancient country of Armenia have transformed our understanding of the origins of human civilization and humanity itself. It also tells the story of a heroic...
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Timbuktu: A Captivating Guide to an Important Ancient City and How It Became a Part of the Wealthy Mali Empire during the ReignWhether we realize it or not, stories and characters from Timbuktu are everywhere in our modern-day lives.The great Mansa Musa was the most iconic king of the Mali Empire. Considered to be one of the richest men ever, Mansa Musa is not only the...
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Seward's Law: Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and SlaveryIn Seward's Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward's legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights--a theory that demonstrated how the country could end slavery and establish a practical form of justice. This theory, Hoffer demonstrates, had...
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Communism's Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East GermanyCommunism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to spaces of art: theaters, galleries, concert halls, and youth clubs. Kyrill Kunakhovich shows how these venues turned into sites...
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