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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Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the InternetBeginning with the development of the compass, Ruling the Waves examines a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the world's politics and business. With Debora Spar's gifted storytelling, each chapter reads like an adventure tale as she recounts the...
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Rule and Ceremonial of the Third Order of St. Francis, According to the Constitution of Leo Xiii, and the Decree of the Sacred Congregation of RitesThe rule and ceremonial of the Third Order of St. Francis is a guide for lay people who wish to live a Franciscan way of life. This book outlines the prayers, practices, and beliefs of the Third Order, which was founded in the 13th...
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Roosevelt and the Russians""Roosevelt and the Russians"" is a historical non-fiction book written by Edward R. Stettinius Jr. The book delves into the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, and the Soviet Union during World War II. Stettinius Jr. was a...
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Rome's Greatest Emperor: VespasianTo anyone scanning the sea from the southern coast of Britain in the year 43 AD, the sight of hundreds of ships appearing one by one as dots on the horizon would have filled them with awe and dread. On a leading warship, a...
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Rethinking the End of Empire: Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power PoliticsWhy did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the desires of...
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Reshaping' Atlantic Connections: Ireland and Irish America 1917-1921This new study offers unique insights into the variety of Irish American identities and nationalist ideologies as well as on the larger question of what it meant to be 'ethnic' in the U.S. during and after America's entry into World War 1. 'Reshaping' Atlantic...
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Rescue of the Danish Jews: Moral Courage Under Stress"An immensely valuable ocntribution. As the last generation of witnesses to the Holocaust testify to its horrors, tehy must also testify to its heroes - those who risked all to safe lives. These movingly told stories restore our faith in the human spirit."--William Shirer...
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Religions of Early India: A Cultural HistoryThe extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand years From its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial rituals and rigorous regimes of personal austerity to psycho-spiritual experimentation...
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Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and AtheismReligion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism is a multifaceted account of the engagement between religion and the secular in Russia's Christian, Jewish, and atheist traditions. Ana Siljak brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to present unique perspectives on...
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Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings: A Brief History with DocumentsFocusing on a carefully edited selection of testimony from the Ku Klux Klan hearings, Reconstruction Violence and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings brings to light what part violence against freedmen and Republicans played in shaping Reconstruction. Author: Shawn AlexanderPublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 01/23/2015Pages: 160Binding Type:...
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Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous MistressBarbara Villiers was a woman so beautiful, so magnetic and so sexually attractive that she captured the hearts of many in Stuart-era Britain. Her beauty is legendary: she became the muse of artists such as Peter Lely, the inspiration of writers such as John...
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Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, KingThrough exquisite artworks, glittering jewellery and weaponry discover how Ranjit Singh, one of the greatest figures in the history of India, established a hugely influential Sikh Empire at the beginning of the 19th century. Through a stunning selection of over one hundred key objects...
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Rancho MirageDr. Leo Mallette is an adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University's doctoral program. He has collected postcards depicting Rancho Mirage starting with the dude ranches in the 1940s and accelerating with the country clubs in the 1950s. The city of Rancho Mirage is a low-density...
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Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool ChildBlending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States. By examining...
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Queer Chimerica: A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool ChildBlending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in which the transnational circulation of queer culture, politics, and institutions are structured through the antagonist interdependence of China and the United States. By examining...
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Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf IslandLocated in the Straits of Hormuz, the island of Qeshm has had a tumultuous history. Qeshm: The History of a Persian Gulf Island is the first serious, book-length study of the island's history. From the fourteenth century onward, the island was an important dependency...
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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love ThemA rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda Triangle. Personality tests. Ghost hunting. Crop circles. Mayan Doomsday. What do all these have in common? None can quite live up the rigor of actual...
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Progress and Poverty - The Complete Works of Henry George"Progress and Poverty is not so much a book as an event. The life and thought of no one capable of understanding it can be quite the same after reading it." - Emma Lazarus In this landmark text, Henry George lays out his study...
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Programming Language Cultures: Automating AutomationIn this book, Brian Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures. In chapters focused on specific programming languages such as SNOBOL and JavaScript, as well as on code comments, metasyntactic variables, the very...
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Producing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on WikipediaIn 2021, the American Historical Association published a study on how the American public perceives and understands the past. Almost half of the respondents argued that they turn to Wikipedia to learn about history and acquire a historical understanding of the past. Wikipedia was...
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