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  • 1001 Days That Shaped the World

    Series series 1001 Series
    An absorbing look at what happened—and why—on the most significant days in world history.Who was the first British prime minister? When did Edwin Hubble discover there was more than one galaxy in the universe? Which country was the first to give women the vote? What triggered the “Arab Spring”? Packed with iconic images, 1001 Days That Shaped the World is a detailed, fact-filled reference that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Freiheit oder Tod

    Die deutsche Revolution 1848/1849

    by Jörg Bong ...
    Januar bis Juli 1849: Die berühmte »Verfassungskampagne« für die Anerkennung der Paulskirchenverfassung durch die deutschen Fürsten und die endgültige Niederschlagung der Demokratiebewegung überall in Deutschland. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • A Sextet on the Great War

    A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World WarIn A Sextet on the Great War, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration.Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guiltPierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the ... Read more

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  • Warum Krieg?

    by Richard Overy ...
    Translated by Henning Thies ...
    Warum führen Menschen Krieg? Die Antworten auf diese Frage sind so vielfältig wie die Formen kriegerischer Konflikte selbst. Gehört Krieg zur menschlichen Natur, ist er Ausdruck eines aggressiven menschlichen Triebs? Wie hängt Krieg mit dem Wettbewerb um ökonomische Vorteile zusammen, wie verhält er sich zur Frage staatlicher Sicherheit? Was hat Krieg mit Religion und Ideologie zu tun, was mit dem ... Read more

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  • Tage der Entscheidung

    Die deutsche Revolution 1848/1849

    by Jörg Bong ...
    Die dramatischen Debatten im ersten deutschen Parlament um eine demokratische Verfassung. Die historischen Kämpfe für Volkssouveränität und gegen Fürstenwillkür in Frankfurt, Wien und Berlin in der zweiten Hälfte des Jahres 1848. ... Read more

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  • The World in Books

    52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction

    Series series Great Short Books
    A delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time—from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion—chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don’t Know Much About History.From ancient times to the present day, The World in Books offers a wide-ranging historical education through pleasure reading ... Read more

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  • The Times Lives Behind the Music

    Edited by Nigel Farndale, Times Books ...

    $12.99 USD

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  • How the World Made the West

    A 4,000-Year History

    An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that the West is, and always has been, truly global.In How the World Made the West, Josephine Quinn poses perhaps the most significant challenge ever to the “civilizational thinking” regarding the origins of ... Read more

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  • Jenseits von Nation und Imperium

    Interaktionen koreanischer Studierender und japanischer Protestanten (1880–1923)

    Series Book 38 - Globalgeschichte
    Welche Rolle spielten Koreaner, die zwischen 1880 und 1923 zum Studium nach Japan kamen, im Austausch mit japanischen Intellektuellen protestantischen Glaubens, insbesondere im Umfeld des YMCA (Christlicher Verein junger Männer) oder der Kaiserlichen Universität Tokyo, im Diskurs zur Kolonial- und Ostasienpolitik Japans? Gestützt auf ein breites Spektrum an japanischen und koreanischen Quellen, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • AP World History: Modern Premium 2025: 5 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice

    Series series Barron's AP Prep
    Looking for more ways to prep? Check out Barron's AP World History Podcast wherever you get your favorite podcasts AND power up your study sessions with Barron's AP World History on Kahoot!‑‑additional, free practice to help you ace your exam!***Be prepared for exam day with Barron’s. Trusted content from AP experts!Barron’s AP World History: Modern Premium, 2025 includes in‑depth content review ... Read more

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  • Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me

    Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula

    A college professor debunks the myths that have infiltrated America's school curricula.In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books.But in the decades that followed, false leftist narratives—as wrong as those they supplanted—have come to dominate ... Read more

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  • Myth and the Making of History

    Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Myth and the Making of History examines the relationship between myth and history in early China, a topic that has been explored by American paleographer and scholar of ancient China Sarah Allan throughout her career. Allan has worked at a crucial and sensitive intersection, where myth and history collide at the very heart of China's origin story. Her work has created an intellectual space in ... Read more

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  • Critical Theory: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.First defined by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s, “critical theory” now extends far beyond its original German context around the Frankfurt School and the emergence of Nazism. We now often speak of critical theories of race, gender, anti-colonialism, and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Palästina begreifen

    Wissensdinge, Akteursnetzwerke, Raumerzählungen (1877–1929)

    Dinge vermitteln Vorstellungen und belegen Erkenntnisse. Das »Heilige Land« war seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert Gegenstand theologischer Forschung und wissenschaftlicher Landeskunde. Karten, Pflanzenbelege und ethnographische Gegenstände, denen Tobias Mörike als Wissensdinge nachgeht, vermittelten Vorstellungen eines Freilichtmuseums der Bibel und einer modernen zukünftigen Kolonie. Auf Grundlage ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • Nationalstaat und Föderalismus

    Zum Wandel deutscher Staatlichkeit seit 1871

    Der Föderalismus, dessen Wurzeln bis in das Mittelalter zurückreichen, gehört zu den Grundtatsachen der deutschen Geschichte. Dieses historische Erbe spiegelt sich in der heutigen deutschen Staatlichkeit wider, wie sie im Grundgesetz verankert ist und von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen mit Leben erfüllt wird. Renommierte Historiker, Politologen und Rechtswissenschaftler zeichnen in diesem Band die ... Read more

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  • Die Abschaffung des Todes

    Säkularistische Ewigkeiten vom 18. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert

    Series Book 84 - Campus Historische Studien
    In menschlichen Gesellschaften gilt der Leichnam als besonderer Körper. Das Weiterverfahren mit ihm folgte in Europa seit der Spätantike überwiegend christlichen Traditionen. Das bis dahin religiös besetzte Überdauern nach dem Tod erfuhr indes in den westlichen Modernen seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert eine weltanschauliche Entzauberung: Vorwiegend männliche Akteure suchten dem Tod durch ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Reconciling Art and Technology

    A Shared Cognitive History

    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young "interdiscipline" of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional cultures can be effected.Art and technology are commonly regarded as oppositional. While both are ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Ruhelose Welt

    Erinnerungen

    Was bleibt noch von der Vergangenheit? Und welche Maßstäbe werden auch in der Zukunft noch gelten? Michael Stürmer kennt wie nur wenige andere die deutsche und europäische Geschichte. Im Gespräch mit Ulrich Schlie analysiert er die tektonischen Verwerfungen der Gegenwart und geht ihren Ursprüngen nach. Michael Stürmer verbindet dabei in seinen Betrachtungen die Einsichten des Historikers in die ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The University of South Carolina Trivia Book

    Series series College Trivia
    The unofficial guide to the home of the Gamecocks!The University of South Carolina Trivia Book features a wealth of historic and recent facts, with over 500 questions (with answers!) and quotations spanning more than two centuries of USC history, ranging from the fun to the significant and from the bizarre to the informative. This book is the quintessential source of information about the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Discipline Problems

    How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools

    Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn. But she’s troubled that her history classes leave out events like the genocide and dispossession of Indigenous people in the Americas, presenting a sugar-coated image of the United States that is at odds with her everyday experience. “The history I learned in school is simpler,” she says. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The University of Central Florida Trivia Book

    by Mary A. Rubin ...
    Series series College Trivia
    The unofficial guide to the home of the Knights!The University of Central Florida Trivia Book features a wealth of historic and recent facts, with over 650 questions (with answers!) and quotations spanning more than six decades of UCF history, ranging from the fun to the significant, and from the bizarre to the informative. This book is the quintessential source of information about one of the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Princeton University Trivia Book

    Series series College Trivia
    The unofficial guide to the home of the Tigers!The Princeton University Trivia Book features a wealth of historic and recent facts, with over 650 questions (with answers!) and quotations spanning nearly three centuries of Princeton history, ranging from the fun to the significant, and from the bizarre to the informative. This book is the quintessential source of information about one of the world ... Read more

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  • Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939

    A Biographical Compendium

    Series series The History of Psychoanalysis Series
    Sigmund Freud, 1856–1939 draws on a wide range of primary sources to present all the datable events that took place in Sigmund Freud’s life, shining new light on his day-to-day experiences.Christfried Toegel’s work provides details and context for the personal, social and political conditions under which Freud developed his theories during this time period. The book’s timeline presents not only ... Read more

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  • Teaching Public History Creatively in Alabama

    About (Public) Face

    by Sharony Green ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Public History
    This book chronicles a University of Alabama historian’s efforts to engage public history over the course of a decade, highlighting personal and educational experiences inside and outside of the classroom.Each chapter reveals how Sharony Green, her students, and collaborators used various public places and spaces in Alabama, including the University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa, where she teaches, as ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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