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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Corpus HermeticumA collection of Greek writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistos, dating from some time before the close of the second century AD, Corpus Hermeticum forms the core of the Hermetic tradition, and was one of the main influences on and motivational factors for the Renaissance....
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Blue Guide Emilia RomagnaThis easy-to-carry guide includes Bologna, Parma, Modena, Piacenza, Ravenna, Rimini and the Po delta. Art historian, Italy resident and long-time Blue Guides author Alta Macadam explores this beautiful region of fine cities, splendid cuisine and long history, providing a fascinatingly detailed guide, with carefully...
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Ghosts of Targets Past: The Lives and Losses of a Lancaster Crew in 1944-45Born in Scotland, Philip Gray was a journalist living in Canada, but in WW2 he found himself captain of the crew of a 'mighty Lanc', operating with 186 Squadron as the RAF took the war right into the heart of Germany. Both Gray and...
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The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday LifeA scholarly gem which is indispensable reading for anyone interested in how social change occurs, especially in the advanced industrial countries."--Carl Boggs, National UniversityThis book is an important corrective to the all-too-common view that global capitalism is triumphant, that there is no basis for...
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Master Paintings from the Phillips CollectionThe Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921 by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), a Washington D.C. collector who played a vital role in introducing America to contemporary art. Unusually for his time, Phillips saw American artists as fully equal to...
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Queen's Rebels: Ulster Loyalism in Historical PerspectiveQueen's Rebels is a seminal book, described as 'the classic discussion of Protestant loyalism' and 'the most original study of Ulster loyalist ideology'. It is an interpretive essay on the history of the Ulster Protestant community from the seventeenth-century plantations to the mid 1970s....
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Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its HistoryChanging the Immutable focuses on how segments of Orthodox society have taken upon themselves to rewrite the past, by covering up and literally cutting out that which does not fit in with their contemporary world-view. For reasons ranging from theological considerations to internal religious...
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Jacobite StoriesIn this book, which details the main Jacobite risings of 1689, 1715 and 1745, Dane Love reveals that it was a bloody time, when Scot fought Scot, and both sides were responsible for destroying the lives of many innocent people.Author: Dane LovePublisher: Neil Wilson...
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Colorado TriviaColorado is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history, and colorful characters: Colorado has the highest paved road in North America; the road to Mt. Evans climbs an amazing 14,258 feet above sea level Mike the Headless...
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Owen Sound: The Port CityThe beginning of Owen Sound can be traced to the 1840 historical meeting, in a small forest clearing, between surveyor Charles Rankin and land agent John Telfer. Owen Sound: The Port City begins with the Native Peoples of the area and moves through pioneer...
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Firewater: The Impact of the Whiskey Trade on the Blackfoot Nation"The whiskey brought among us by the Traders is fast killing us off and we are powerless before the evil...we are unable to pitch anywhere that the Trader cannot follow us." Chief Crowfoot Between 1870 and 1875, hundreds of Blackfoot Indians died as a...
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Gandhi: India's Great SoulThis engaging introduction to Gandhi will show you how one person can accomplish big things. This colorful book offers you a window into the world of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most amazing people of the twentieth century. You will learn about Gandhi's life--from...
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Famous Samurai: The Warring States PeriodThe Warring States period (1467-1568) was the most destructive in Japan's long history of civil strife. It began when the dearly won supremacy of the Ashikaga clan was squandered by a weak and indecisive ruler, allowing the jealous rivalry between local warlords to spiral...
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Government's EndAn earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington media insiders when it was published more than five years ago under the title Demosclerosis. In it, Jonathan Rauch, a former correspondent for The Economist and a columnist for...
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The Spirit World2011 Reprint of 1921 edition. Illustrated Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fully illustrated with dozens of charts and drawings. This book covers all phases of the spirit world; particularly the powers of good and evil; the...
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In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of ArousalIn Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntary flagellation in Europe, from its invention in medieval relgious devotion to its use in the modern pornographic imagination. Working with a wide range of religious, literary, and medical...
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern EuropeWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world without centralized administrations, where names and addresses were constantly changing? In...
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Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFKHumiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate.Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert...
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Letters from the UndergroundIn March, 1974, facing drug charges in a case in which he claims he was innocent, Abbie Hoffman, one of the Chicago Seven, became a fugitive, forced to leave behind Anita, his wife of eight years, and america, their four year old son. During...
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May I Quote You, General Lee? (Volume 2): Observations & Utterances of the South's Great GeneralsThis second volume of words and statements of Robert E. Lee speak of duty and principle, faith and doubt, bravery in the face of certain defeat, hard choices, and the qualities of leadership that made him great. Lee's command was characterized by gallantry and...
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