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  • 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think

    by Arthur Caplan ...
    An elegant addition to the successful “1001” series—a comprehensive, chronological guide to the most important thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years.1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest minds in history. Ranging from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Plato to today’s cutting-edge ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unacknowledged Kinships

    Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism

    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    The first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the history of Zionism.There is an “unacknowledged kinship” between studies of Zionism and post-colonial studies, a kinship that deserves to be both discovered and acknowledged. Unacknowledged Kinships strives to facilitate a conversation between the historiography of Zionism and postcolonial ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Big History

    by DK ...
    From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth.Aligned with the online Big History Project supported by Bill Gates, Big History puts a wide-angle lens on 13.8 billion years of remarkable history and shows you how and why we got where we are today.With stunning visual timelines and special CGI reconstructions, you can see history's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Banned Books

    The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present

    by DK ...
    Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published!Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed “acceptable” in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture.Banned Books explores why some of the world’s most important literary classics and seminal non ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Tibetan History Reader

    Edited by Gray Tuttle, Kurtis Schaeffer ...
    Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions. Beginning with Tibet's emergence as a regional power and concluding with its profound contemporary transformations, the collection is both a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Bonanza Trail

    Ghost Trails and Mining Camps of the West

    This classic account of Old West mining camps and gold-hunting prospectors is “a successful digging of a rich historical vein . . . phenomenal” (The New York Times).This colorful blend of history, reference, and travelogue brings to life the frenzied search for precious metals in nineteenth-century America through a tour of mining camps and former boomtowns, many now abandoned. It reveals the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Discordant Notes, Volume 1

    The Voice of Dissent in The Last Court of Resort

    A dissenting judgment, as ordinarily understood, is a judgment or an opinion of a judge, sitting as part of a larger bench, who 'dissents' (i.e. disagrees) with the opinion or judgment of the majority. Dissenting judgments or opinions appear in different ways. Tracing, exploring and analysing all dissenting judgments in the history of the Supreme Court of India, from the beginning till date, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Home Front: 1939–1945 in 100 Objects

    A colorful catalogue of objects that illustrate what everyday life was like in wartime Britain.A lifesaving gas mask. A ration book, essential for the supply of food. A shelter stove that kept a family warm while they huddled in their Anderson shelter. A leaflet dropped by the Luftwaffe that was designed to intimidate Britain’s populace during the threat of invasion. A civilian identity card over ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Voices of the Nakba

    A Living History of Palestine

    ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ‘disaster’ or ‘catastrophe’ - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Palestinian plight.Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reconstruction Updated Edition

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • Don't Know Much About History [30th Anniversary Edition]

    Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned

    A New York Times bestseller · More than 1.7 Million Copies Sold!“Reading Davis is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had!” —People magazineFrom the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this 30th anniversary edition of ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • The Medieval Anarchy: History in an Hour

    by Kaye Jones ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Nicknamed ‘The Anarchy' for its unprecedented levels of chaos and disorder, the succession crisis that followed the death of King Henry I in 1135 resulted in England's first civil war.‘The Medieval Anarchy: History in an Hour’ neatly covers all the major facts and events giving you a clear and straightforward overview of the plots and violence ... Read more

    $0.99 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

  • World History

    From the Ancient World to the Information Age

    by Philip Parker ...
    Series series DK Ultimate Guides
    Take a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world.Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an essential guide for anyone who loves history or wants to broaden their knowledge. This accessible book covers over 350 of the world’s most important turning points, from our earliest human ancestors of ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Who is the Historian?

    by Nigel A. Raab ...
    Who is the historian? What do historians do? Where do their explorations take them? What is the impact of the digital age on historical research?In an affable style, Nigel A. Raab answers these questions for those intrigued by the past. Each chapter describes a specific aspect of "doing history," beginning in the physical spaces of archives and libraries around the globe. Readers are then ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: The Cold War in Europe 1941–1995

    Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to ... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • History of the World in 1000 Objects

    by DK ...
    Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history book.From the beginning of human history, the one thing that has defined us is our talent for making things, from basic technology and everyday objects, such as bowls and hand axes, to high-tech inventions, such as supersonic aircraft, smart devices, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The History Buff's Guide to the Presidents

    Top Ten Rankings of the Best, Worst, Largest, and Most Controversial Facets of the American Presidency

    Series series History Buff's Guides
    Did you know that Warren G. Harding played poker in the White House at least once a week? Or that Richard Nixon was a Quaker? The History Buff's Guide to the Presidents takes a peek behind the scenes, revealing everything you ever wanted to know about the families, personal habits, and social lives of the most powerful job in the world. Author Thomas R. Flagel's unique perspective on the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD