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  • Captives

    Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850

    by Linda Colley ...
    In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean, North America, India, and Afghanistan.Here are harrowing, sometimes poignant ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Origin and Goal of History

    by Karl Jaspers ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. He was Hannah Arendt’s supervisor before her emigration to the United States in the 1930s and himself experienced the consequences of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The History Manifesto

    How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 1368

    China and the Making of the Modern World

    A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Joe Gould's Teeth

    by Jill Lepore ...
    From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called “The Oral History of Our Time.”Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Sabbatai Ṣevi

    The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676

    Series Book 24 - Princeton Classics
    Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A work widely esteemed as his magnum opus, Sabbatai Ṣevi offers a vividly detailed account of the only messianic movement ever to engulf the entire Jewish world. Sabbatai Ṣevi was an obscure kabbalist rabbi of seventeenth-century Turkey who aroused a fervent following that spread over the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Wars within a War

    Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War

    Edited by Joan Waugh, Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Comprised of essays from twelve leading scholars, this volume extends the discussion of Civil War controversies far past the death of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865. Contributors address, among other topics, Walt Whitman's poetry, the handling of the Union and Confederate dead, the treatment of disabled and destitute northern veterans, Ulysses S. Grant's imposing tomb, and Hollywood's long ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • History: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Story of America

    Essays on Origins

    by Jill Lepore ...
    In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Interpretation of Cultures

    One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture isWith The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he virtually rewrote the rules of his field. Culture, Geertz argues, does not drive human behavior. Rather, it ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Approaching African History

    by Michael Brett ...
    Explores how the conception of Africa and its history has changed over time and narrates the story of this vast continent over the past 10,000 years.Africa is a huge continent, as large as the more habitable areas of Europe and Asia put together. It has a history immensely long, yet the study of that history as an academic discipline in its own right is little more than fiftyyears old. Since then ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Idea of Progress

    An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth

    by J. B. Bury ...
    "We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation." Contents: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy Utility the End of Knowledge: ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Representing the Holocaust

    History, Theory, Trauma

    Defying comprehension, the tragic history of the Holocaust has been alternately repressed and canonized in postmodern Western culture. Recently our interpretation of the Holocaust has been the center of bitter controversies, from debates over Paul de Man's collaborationist journalism and Martin Heidegger’s Nazi past to attempts by some historians to downplay the Holocaust’s significance. A major ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Lies My Teacher Told Me

    Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

    "Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself."—Howard ZinnA new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the authorSince its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Patriot's Almanac

    Daily Readings on America

    Read here the storied history of these United States.The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that define the essence of the United States, that mark its historic course, and connect its people. The American Patriot’s Almanac is a daily source of inspiration and information about the history, heroes, and achievements that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Core of an Onion

    Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

    An Eater Best Food Book of 2023**A Smithsonian Best Food Book of 2023From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt,a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples-featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world.As Julia Child once said, “It is hard to imagine a civilization ... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Silencing the Past

    Power and the Production of History

    The 20th anniversary edition of a pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby.Now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul PeckPlacing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—the most successful slave revolt in history—alongside denials of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The History of White People

    A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston GlobeTelling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fifty Things You Need to Know About World History

    by Hugh Williams ...
    What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?In this highly entertaining read Hugh Williams distils world history into an insightful overview. By selecting fifty key people, places, battles, objects and events, he casts a clear eye over the way the world has developed and how we live today.Injecting life into familiar historical landmarks as well ... Read more

    $5.49 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic

    The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship—Titanic

    by Walter Lord ...
    Series series The Titanic Chronicles
    Three decades after his landmark work A Night to Remember, Walter Lord revisits the TitanicYears after A Night to Remember stoked the fires of public interest in the doomed RMS Titanic, the clamor for details about April 14, 1912, has not abated. As die-hard professional and amateur historians—“rivet counters,” they are called—puzzle over minute details of the ship’s last hours, a wealth of facts ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archaeology from Space

    How the Future Shapes Our Past

    by Sarah Parcak ...
    Winner of Archaeological Institute of America's Felicia A. Holton Book Award • Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 • A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 • A Science News Best Book of 2019 • Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019<strong... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The World

    A Family History of Humanity

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The RomanovsA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Smithsonian****“Succession meets Game of Thrones.” —The Spectator • “The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History

    A “well-reasoned and timely” (Booklist) essay collection interrogates the Lost Cause myth in Civil War historiography.Was the Confederacy doomed from the start in its struggle against the superior might of the Union? Did its forces fight heroically against all odds for the cause of states’ rights? In reality, these suggestions are an elaborate and intentional effort on the part of Southerners to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greek Way

    The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece."Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit ... Read more

    $10.99 USD