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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To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy DaguerreotypesTo Make Their Own Way in the World is a profound consideration of some of the most challenging images in the history of photography: fifteen daguerreotypes of Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty--men and women of African descent who were enslaved in...
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A History of Christian-Muslim RelationsChristians and Muslims comprise the world's two largest religious communities. This book looks at the history of their relationship - part peaceful co-existence and part violent confrontation - from their first encounters in the medieval period up to the present. It emphasises the theological,...
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Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New YorkEarly twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens. In this book, Douglas J. Flowe interrogates the meaning of crime and violence in the...
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Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing NationBetween the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" as a...
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Radical Black Theatre in the New DealBetween 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated "Negro Units" set up under the FTP, African American artists took...
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Strangers No More: Syrians in the United States, 1880-1900Syrian/Lebanese immigration to the United States began only in 1878, but by 1900, Syrian men and women had settled in every state and territory, from Alabama to Wyoming. First traveling 5,000 miles to reach New York, these wanderers peddled their way to the furthest...
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The Cat in Ancient EgyptA definitive and richly illustrated account of cats in Egyptian life, religion, and art True aristocrat of domestic animals, the cat has a distinguished ancestry. Most modern cats are thought to be descended from the cats of ancient Egypt, so these beautiful and engaging...
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Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of RagsThe history of modern-day old clothes recycling begins with a thing called shoddy. Starting in the early 1800s, shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool, and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling. Old rags and...
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The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century EnglandIn October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the...
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Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain WorldA series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists' ongoing quest to understand the quantum world. The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that...
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Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at WarPatriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger's first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and imprisonment in Laos during the Vietnam War. CDR Bedinger recounts a tale of heroism, endurance, and the shared struggle in the...
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Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source BookConsiders how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. Examines the provision of medical care in context and how it was shaped by the social, religious, political...
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Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times By an AmericanThe publication of this work in 1824 was met with an immediate scandal. Mary, the novel's protagonist and a Puritan settler in the New World, falls in love and marries a Native American. The author confronted directly issues of religious oppression, gender stereotypes, and...
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UFO Crash Retrievals: The Complete Investigation - Status Reports I-VII (1978-1994)This is the ultra-rare complete compilation of Leonard H. Stringfield's legendary "UFO Crash Retrieval" series. All 7 of the volumes are included in this one book.Author: Leonard StringfieldPublisher: Lulu.comPublished: 05/11/2019Pages: 382Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.79dISBN: 9780359685080This title is not returnable
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Sword of the Spirit: An Offering of Nietzschean Philosophy to the Soldiers of the Third ReichCommissioned by the Third Reich, Sword of the Spirit, is a collection of aphorisms by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The sole purpose of this collection served as an offering to Wehrmacht soldiers on the front lines during WWII. Original copies of Sword of...
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He 111 Kampfgeschwader in the WestOriginally designed in the mid-1930s as a fast airliner that could be easily adapted for the bombing role, the He 111 first saw action in Spain with the Legion Condor during the civil war. By the time Germany invaded Poland, more than 700 were...
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Streets of Corpus ChristiSTREETS OF CORPUS CHRISTI - Murphy Givens recounts the histories of various streets in Corpus Christi, telling who lived on them, worked on them and what were the businesses and residences that gave life to the streets. This volume provides many photographs from different...
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The Lost Treasures Of The Black HillsTHE LOST TREASURES OF THE BLACK HILLS is the latest addition to Peter Netzel's lost treasure series of books. This volume covers lost treasure stories and legends from the Black Hills. This area is composed of several South Dakota counties: Lawrence, Pennington, Custer, Meade...
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Who is This King of Glory?: A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah TraditionThis book reveals that much of Christianity and its beliefs had originated in ancient Egypt rather than the Middle East. The author presents us with how, where and why many spiritual Egyptian beliefs were adopted into Christian form and accepted as "history", as opposed...
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From Berber State to Moroccan Empire: The Glory of Fez Under the MarinidsMedieval Fez was a main center of education, art, and commerce from the 13th to the 16th centuries after the Berber tribe of the Marīnids seized power in Morocco and moved the capital from Marrakesh to Fez. As non-Arabs they gained legitimacy by founding...
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