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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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To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to MarcuseCritical theory has many faces; its complexities and nuances present a challenge to those seeking to engage with its thought. In order to understand critical theory today, we must first understand its origins, its development, and its consequences. To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory...
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Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury, and PowerA radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperor Rome's second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite--treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show...
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This Great National Object: Building the Nineteenth-Century Welland CanalsMaking extensive use of the National Archives and the Archives of Ontario, Styran and Taylor unveil previously unpublished information about the construction of the canals, including technical plans and drawings from a wide variety of sources. They illustrate the technical and management intricacies of...
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Thinking Otherwise: How Walter LaFeber Explained the History of Us Foreign RelationsThinking Otherwise addresses the question of what makes a great historian by exploring the teaching and scholarship of Walter LaFeber, widely acclaimed as the most distinguished historian of US foreign relations. This volume of essays, edited by Susan A. Brewer, Richard H. Immerman, and...
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Thinking Otherwise: How Walter LaFeber Explained the History of Us Foreign RelationsThinking Otherwise addresses the question of what makes a great historian by exploring the teaching and scholarship of Walter LaFeber, widely acclaimed as the most distinguished historian of US foreign relations. This volume of essays, edited by Susan A. Brewer, Richard H. Immerman, and...
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The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid JusticeBefore the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony--before even Lizzie Borden--there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten...
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The Way of the Samurai: Luxury Full-Color EditionThis luxurious gift edition presents Inazo Nitobe's classic work, The Way of the Samurai, featuring stenciled page edges and full-color illustrations. To many people, the word samurai conjures images of menacing masks, long blades and elaborate armor. However, this classic text by Inazo Nitobe...
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The Watch's Wild Cry: A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara BellAt the age of nineteen, Robert F. Weir of West Point, New York, ran away to sea, where he spent the next ten years of his life. Assuming the pseudonym Robert Wallace, Weir sailed aboard the bark Clara Bell out of New Bedford, Massachusetts,...
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The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A HistoryA colorful and authoritative narrative history of the often-overlooked--yet hugely influential--figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting. Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours...
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The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated HistoryThe definitive telling of one of the longest and most controversial wars in US history.Delve into the compelling history and impact of the Vietnam War in reverting detail. This authoritative visual guide unpacks accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and bravery, making this a perfect read...
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The Underwater Basilica of Nicaea: Archaeology in the Birthplace of Christian TheologyA Firsthand Look at a Groundbreaking Archaeological DiscoveryIn 2014, aerial photography revealed a submerged structure beneath the waters of Lake Iznik, near the ancient city of Nicaea. The structure appeared to be in the shape of an ancient basilica church, with a nave, aisles,...
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The Trials of Jesus: Evidence, Conclusions, and AftermathSee the Passion narrative like you've never seen it before. The Gospels describe a complex chain of events from Jesus's arrest to his crucifixion--interrogations from multiple high priests, a confrontation with Herod the Tetrarch, and finally Pontius Pilate's unusual hesitancy leading to Jesus's execution....
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The Trail of the Serpent: Stories from the Smoke-Filled Rooms of PoliticsPolitics is a mess--what's the cure? After living through WWII, Americans watched Soviet tanks roll into Saigon in 1975--we lost the Vietnam War. That changed politics. And Ronald Reagan was elected president. The Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union collapsed, we won the Cold...
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The Tragedy of Julius CaesarThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a historical play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599, and originally published in the First Folio of 1623 as The Tragedie of Ivlivs Caesar. It is one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on...
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The Theology of Ethnocultural Empathic Turn: Getting to the Core of Sacralized CrimeThe Theology of Ethnocultural Empathic Turn: Getting to the Core of Sacralized Crime delves into the roots of ethnoreligious tensions in the former Yugoslav territories and it provides a comprehensive understanding of this specific politico-religious issue, exposing how the sacralization of ethnonational mythology influences...
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The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, MeditationsAn evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine's "voice" of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.Inspired by Virgil's exquisitely ambivalent phrase "sunt lacrimae rerum" (there are tears of/for/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian "voice" of classical antiquity, has produced...
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The Sword of ChristIn The Sword of Christ, author Giles Corey examines the transformation of historical Christianity into the deracinated, egalitarian form we see preached today and argues that Christianity must be recaptured and returned to its roots as the foundation of the West. This course correction...
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The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili CoastThe first major history of photography from coastal East Africa The ports of the Swahili coast--Zanzibar and Mombasa among them--have long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge. With the arrival of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, these predominantly...
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The Story of the BuddhaFor readers of mythology, an original and introspective journey through the life of the Buddha accompanied by 26 beautiful color illustrations and 8 meditations. From longtime Zen teacher and poet John Tarrant, this is an original retelling of the foundational myth of Buddhism--the life...
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The Silk Finisher: Bigotry, Murder, and Sacrifice in the Crossroads of AmericaWhat happens when toxicity invades a life at every turn? A 1963 murder leads to a decade-long journey for a son to uncover truths about his family, an American town, and ultimately himself. In the "Crossroads of America," three active-duty US Army paratroopers commit...
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