History books

Handel's life and career are intricately documented in a wide range of contemporary sources. This six-volume publication...  Read More >>

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This book traces the remarkable lives of the author’s ancestors: criminals, performers, migrants, and mill workers,...  Read More >>

This compelling account reveals how a battle over the sea shaped a community, an industry, and a legacy. In the...  Read More >>

The series explores the complexity and the interconnections of arts and languages by merging, comparing and contrasting...  Read More >>

""A history of the process for using and controlling atomic weapons during World War II and at the beginning of...  Read More >>

The ""Graduiertenkolleg 1876"" in Mainz examined how concepts of humans and nature developed in the Middle East,...  Read More >>

An astonishing maritime adventure: the true story of a Captain’s wife forced to take the helm in the most perilous...  Read More >>

Combining textual study and fieldwork, the author explores the historical development and present-day significance...  Read More >>

The story of the famous Italian aircraft-designer since 1945, Ermanno Bazzocchi, and his most famous and commercially...  Read More >>

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A powerful, definitive account of modern Syria and its fate Few countries have had as vexed a political history...  Read More >>

An extraordinary account of how one man defied the most powerful ruler of his age and in doing so changed the course...  Read More >>

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Modern Tragedy and the End of Worlds: Lillo, Leopardi, Ibsen shows how George Lillo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Henrik...  Read More >>

Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-dīn Lārī uncovers the underexplored historical...  Read More >>

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest...  Read More >>

History rarely breaks loudly. It fractures in silence. In the wake of a mission that should have ended everything,...  Read More >>

Vikings of the Broken Raven: People of the Fiery Pines The sea has carried them farther than they ever intended-and...  Read More >>

本书是作者在出版《云南文革史稿》之后，历时七年完成的又一部更具挑战性和重要性的地方文革史专著。作者以研究者和亲历者的身份，融通大量官史和民间史料，并对当年人物的书面及口头回忆悉数采集，使翔实的史实记录和清晰的观点立论得以有机交融。...  Read More >>

Book Three of Twenty Lives at War tells the Great War through 20 stand-alone stories-twenty ordinary people trapped...  Read More >>

For generations, Americans have been told a comforting lie: that slavery was only a side issue, that the Civil War...  Read More >>

¿Y SI LA ""MAGIA"" DEL ANTIGUO EGIPTO FUERA, EN REALIDAD, UNA SOFISTICADA TECNOLOGÍA DE LA CONCIENCIA? Mucho...  Read More >>

MASTERS OF WAR: DOUGLAS MacARTHUR A Biography of America's Most Controversial General He was called a genius and...  Read More >>

Colonialism did not end. It changed form. In The New Empires, Richard Crawford delivers a penetrating analysis...  Read More >>