History books

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthology The Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a...  Read More >>

This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to Korean Buddhism through twenty-five key primary texts...  Read More >>

A thrilling Master of War series medieval historical adventure. Sir Thomas Blackstone must outwit assassins on a...  Read More >>

The Arts of Governance offers a global history of the creation, uses, and adaptations of the political advice literature...  Read More >>

Since its first publication in 1932,Sunset Songhas been regarded as one of the most important novels ever written...  Read More >>

Abul A'la Maududi (1903–1979) was arguably the most influential and controversial twentieth-century Islamic thinker....  Read More >>

An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts....  Read More >>

Offering a critical reinterpretation of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr as a revolutionary Shi'i modernist, this study reveals...  Read More >>

Captures the complex journey of how Dominican Americans mobilized to become key progressive players in American...  Read More >>

Tells the history of St. Vincent's Hospital and the transformative impact of Catholic health care in New York City....  Read More >>

The way an army understands warfare and how to achieve victory on the battlefield has a tremendous impact on its...  Read More >>

""Una Lucha Inconclusa"" is a powerful and uncompromising examination of the Indigenous Peoples' movement of Ecuador-widely...  Read More >>

England, 1500s. Queen Mary I rules the throne. History calls her Bloody Mary and brands her a tyrant-but that story...  Read More >>

A review of the weapons and tactics used in the defense of the Gaza Strip during the israeli attempt to ethnically...  Read More >>

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By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

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A sweeping and in-depth history of the Brooklyn music scene over ten years in Bloomberg's New York, from a writer...  Read More >>

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Presents a visual history of the American Civil War. Visually arresting and comprehensive, this book covers the...  Read More >>

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A devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel's destruction of Gaza from an acclaimed architect and...  Read More >>

A penetrating examination of the consequences of the Second World War which draws uncomfortable parallels with the...  Read More >>

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