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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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Colonies in Conflict: The History of the British Overseas TerritoriesAuthor: Charles CawleyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingPublished: 09/01/2015Pages: 455Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.99lbsISBN: 9781443878111About the AuthorAfter a career as in-house counsel with a US multinational, including overseas postings in France, Hong Kong, the US, Malaysia, and Belgium, Charles Cawley retrained as a historian with Oxford University's...
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Melting Sun: The History of Nuclear Power in Japan and the Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi"Almost 24 hours to the minute since the tsunami hit Fukushima Daiichi, Unit 1 exploded. The building wrenched apart, sending shards of irradiated concrete and metal knifing through the air in all directions. The reactor's massive heavy-duty gantry crane bent like a twig and...
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Destroy the Copy - Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th-20th Centuries: Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and BeyondBased on two international conferences held at Cornell University and the Freie Universität of Berlin in 2010 and 2015, this volume is the first ever to explicitly address the destruction of plaster cast collections of ancient Mediterranean and Western sculpture. Focusing on Europe, the...
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A Thorn in the Rosebush. The American Bartók Estate and Archives During the Cold War, 1946-67This book opens up new perspectives on the history of Béla Bartók's music in the 20th century. It joins a growing literature on music and the cultural Cold War. It draws inspiration from a trove of historic correspondence discovered in Massachusetts in 2010, written...
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Hebridean Journey: The Magic of Scotland's Outer IslesWashed by the surging waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the island chain of Scotland's Outer Hebrides lies at the very edge of Europe. From white shell sands, peaty moors and gnarly mountains to heather hills, sea-green lochs and mysterious ancient monuments, these are places...
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The Theory of Business Enterprise2021 Reprint of the 1958 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The businessman-his motives, aims, methods and effects-is the subject of this compelling survey of the economics of early 20th century life. Veblen's book analyzes the...
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Indian Tears Along the Mad River: The Story of the Destruction of Northern California's American IndiansThousands of indigenous people lived unmolested in northwestern California for 8,000 years. In 1849, miners found gold in the Trinity River causing thousands of Americans to flock to Humboldt Bay. They spread inland and exterminated every Indian they came across. The war lasted 15...
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Deeply in Love with NingboNingbo is one of China's most ancient cities, with a history dating back over 8,000 years, and as a part of the trade route known as the Silk Road, has through many dynasties to the present day been a critical seaport and trading center...
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Historic Haunts of Sumner County, TennesseeFrom the homes of the first settlers in Middle Tennessee to Gallatin's public square and everywhere in between, there is not a more haunted county in America. The Winchesters' unique and architecturally impressive Cragfont had mysterious occurrences from its very beginnings in the late...
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The University of California Museum of PaleontologyThe University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) had a long and rich history even before California became a state.Formally established in 1921, UCMP was built with collections accumulated over 150 years. This treasure trove comes from all continents and ages; it is a...
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Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960sIn a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds...
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Mundale: the West Parish of Westfield, Massachusetts, in the Olden Days.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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I Was an NKVD Agent; a Top Soviet Spy Tells His StoryThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Polychrome Guanaco Cloaks of PatagoniaThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Noah's Ark, Tourist ClassThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Pollution and Atmosphere in Post-Soviet Russia: The Arctic and the EnvironmentThis study addresses the many initiatives to decrease industrial pollution emitting from the Pechenganikel plant in the northwestern corner of Russia during the final years of the Soviet Union, and examines the wider implications for the state of pollution control in the Arctic today....
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The Irish Garden: A Cultural HistoryDon't leave yet. Let there be one more piece of magic to remember the place by.Is there something especially Irish about Irish gardens? The climate, soils, availability of plants and skills of green-fingered people generate an unusually benign environment, it's true, but not one...
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Forging the Anglo-American Alliance: The British and American Armies, 1917-1941The joint British and US campaigns in the European theater of operations during World War II rank among the most impressive examples of coalition warfare in history. In just eighteen months, the US and British armies integrated their planning, intelligence, and command structures more...
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Joan of Navarre: Infanta, Duchess, Queen, Witch?This book is the first full-length biography of Joan of Navarre, a fascinating royal woman who became duchess of Brittany and queen consort of England through her two marriages in 1386 and 1403 respectively. Joan was enmeshed in the turbulent politics of the later...
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Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of IndiaExploring the legal and political history of India, from the British period to the present, Republic of Rhetoric examines the right to free speech and it argues that the enactment of the Constitution in 1950 did not make a significant difference to the freedom...
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