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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China Pluperfect: Volume 1--Epistemology of Past and Outside in Chinese ArtPublisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong PressPublished: 02/07/2023Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.40h x 7.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9789882372467
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Golden Rocks: The Geology and Mining History of Golden, ColoradoThe 129-page book: "Golden Rocks: The Geology and Mining History of Golden, Colorado." is written for the non-specialist. It covers the geology of Golden, surface and ground water, mining history, and mining legacies including railroads, mine hazards, pollution, and the transition from mining to...
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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest SecretAn "electrifying" biography of Walter White, a little-remembered Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever (Chicago Review of Books).Walter F. White led...
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D-Day: Children's American History BookD-Day for kids is a great lesson for the entire family, and it's easy to see why. The invasion began at 6 a.m., and by the end of the day, all but one million troops were dead or captured. The battle was the first...
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SleepSleep is a short story about the horror that is war.It contains very graphic language as well as images.It offers some insight into the training of a U.S. Marine and the mindset he develops.It is based on people I have met, their stories, and...
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Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and InequalityOver the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. This bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson's powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, often...
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Susanna and Alice - Quaker RebelsWith a revolutionary spirit, two Quaker cousins rebel against tradition.One cousin is notorious: Alice Paul endures censure and prison to win suffrage for women. She's a political powerhouse who organizes the first women's march on Washington and the first pickets in front of the...
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Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe: A People's Justice?The thirst for post-World War II justice transcended the Cold War and mobilized diverse social groups. This is a story of their multilayered and at times conflictual interactions. In this edited collection, sixteen historians develop a new approach to the trials against persons accused...
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The Redemption Letters: From Death Row to Heaven: an Account of Salvation from the Darkest of PlacesHave you ever invited someone to church only to be turned down with "I'd burst into flames if I walked in there"? How do you invite or even witness to people who think they are too far gone? You ask a person who was...
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Mayan Civilization: An Essay on the Collapse of Mayan Civilization (Explore the History and Mystery of the Ancient Mayan Ruins)Are you interested in learning what our ancestors studied, built, and how they entertained themselves?Do you find the internet to be an overwhelming place and want all the information compiled into one convenient location?I have studied the mayan civilization and have come to the...
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Reimagining the Gendered Nation: Citizenship and Human Rights in Postcolonial KenyaExplores the complex and intersecting dimensions of gender, ethnicity, and culture on women in the Global South, as well as the central roles of women in resisting colonial rule, and their foundational contributions to post-independence constitutional reform and nation building. For all the effort...
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Discovering A.S.J. Allen: A Story of Skinfolk, Kinfolk, and Village FolkAuthor: Alonzo FelderPublisher: Florida Historical Society PressPublished: 04/26/2022Pages: 469Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsISBN: 9781949810110
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The Genres of Late Antique Christian PoetryClassicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek Christian...
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Salomon Maimon's Theory of InventionHow can we invent new certain knowledge in a methodical manner? This question stands at the heart of Salomon Maimon's theory of invention. Chikurel argues that Maimon's contribution to the ars inveniendi tradition lies in the methods of invention which he prescribes for mathematics....
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Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in EuropeThe New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet returns with the incredible story of Mussolini's daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy and a powerful proponent of the fascist movement.Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's...
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Osay, My Inay: My Hardworking Mother's Life in the Philippines and in AmericaOsay, a mother of six, worked very hard and dedicated herself, together with her husband, to give their children the best education for their future.Her diligence in this objective started very early in her childhood in the Philippines. Trained as a dressmaker and seamstress...
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Exploring the American Presidency Through 50 Historic TreasuresNo person in the world is more recognizable than an American president. These men are larger than life, and as the leader of the free world they have the opportunity to shape history in ways that most of us cannot imagine. Some objects, such...
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The Story Of The Moors In SpainWe hear of how the Moors arrived and conquered the Iberian peninsula, remaining for some 800 years. Tariq ibn-Ziyad, arriving in 711 AD, began an upheaval never before seen in the European continent. The Moorish brought industriousness and commerce, a sophisticated code of laws,...
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Reinventing Jewish Art in the Age of Multiple Modernities: Michail Grobman and the Leviathan GroupCan studying an artist's migration enable the reconfiguration of art history in a new and "global" mode? Michail Grobman's odyssey in search of a contemporary idiom of Jewish art led him to cross the borders of political blocs and to observe, absorb, and confront...
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In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950)In In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950) Huub de Jonge discusses changes in social, economic, cultural and national identity of Arabs originating from Hadhramaut (Yemen) in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia during the first...
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