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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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Give Us the Vote!: Over Two Hundred Years of Fighting for the BallotThe corruption, activism, heroic efforts, and ongoing struggles for the right to vote are chronicled by an award-winning nonfiction author. For over 200 years, people have marched, gone to jail, risked their lives, and even died trying to get the right to vote in...
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Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War. Hilary Green proposes a new...
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The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded EditionWhen The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero--and about one American doctor's extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge's story. Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German...
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Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. BullittA journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Goering. He took part in the talks that ended World War I and those that failed to prevent World War II. While his...
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Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops. Before it was over,...
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Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow BirminghamOne August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing...
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Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black PowerPrior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already crested: the first public demonstrations to integrate museums occurred in late...
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The Lima Reader: History, Culture, PoliticsCovering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru's capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the "City of...
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An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean WorldIn An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), Bassi shows that the region's residents did not live their lives...
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Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by TransgressionTaking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fianc , assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Hayd e Santamar a was the only woman to...
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Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary IranSince the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of...
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The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany: Third edition, Revised and ExpandedFirst published in 1989, The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany has become an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of comparative, international, and constitutional law, as well as of German and European politics. The third edition of this renowned English-language reference...
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim CrowIn Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth,...
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Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic IdentitySlaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed...
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The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of MemoryThe Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of...
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Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall IslandsDespite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view. In this uncommon memoir, Dr. James N. Yamazaki tells us in personal and...
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The Decolonization Of AfricaA bold synthesis of the events that have dominated modern Africa in this historic era of nation-building and transformation.Author: David BirminghamPublisher: Ohio University PressPublished: 01/31/1996Pages: 117Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.44w x 0.35dISBN: 9780821411537About the AuthorDavid Birmingham lived in Switzerland from 1947 to...
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The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque WorkshopIn this collection of nine essays some of the preeminent art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, between the creative idea and its realization, in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The essays, all previously unpublished, are devoted to the...
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Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture: Environmental Histories of the Georgia CoastOne of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that...
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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in BondageWith Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any race or background-- to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was...
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