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Traces the role of American women in history, from the Iroquois matron and Puritan "goodwife" to the dual-role career woman and mother of the eightiesCatego...

Peter C. Newman's series on The Canadian Establishment has made publishing history, its two previous volumes having sold more than half a million copies. In...

For the past two years Pope Francis has enchanted and bewildered the world in equal measure with his compassion and his contradictions. Expanding greatly o...

Culture And Values: A Survey Of The Western Humanities Takes You On A Fascinating Tour Of Some Of The World's Most Significant Examples Of Art, Music, Philo...

Dust jacket notes: "Those of us who live beside the great lakes accept their magnitude with scarcely a passing thought," Pierre Berton writes. "We have long...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it A Financial Times Book of the Year 2024 'What Manchester thinks today, En...

This startlingly original and highly readable volume adds a new richness and depth to an element of U.S. history that is all too often taken for granted. In...

This survey is a major reinterpretation of France's achievement as a nation and of the individual experience of the French, which has taken its place as one...

Exiles In Indian Country Weaves Together The Biographies Of Three Men Who Cast Their Fortunes With The Western Fur Trade In The First Quarter Of The Ninetee...

An On-the-ground History Of Ordinary Americans Who Took To The Streets When Political Issues Became Personal. It Is Widely Believed That Americans Of The 19...

In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues tha...

This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle was a y...

W.j. Rorabaugh. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentUnited States

The Fall Of The Tokugawa Order, 1800-1868. Late Tokugawa Society -- The Political Heritage -- Economic And Social Change -- The Fall Of The Old Order -- The...

​"Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruel...

The first major history of Peru to appear in English in over twenty years, Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes narrates and analyzes a past that reac...

Barry Goldwater is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and controversial politicians of our century, a man whose influence on America conservatism ...

Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave t...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Without Empire France today would only be a liberated country. Thank...

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. I...

The Origins Of A Conflict. Years Of Tension : The Road To War, 1783-1811 ; A General Outline For Defence : Preparations For War, 1811-1812 -- 1812 : The Can...

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to u...

Richard L. Nostrand's Regional Geography Framework Emphasizes The Three Themes That Are Central To Cultural Geography To Explain The Formation And Change Of...

In 1880, the California woman safeguarded the Republic by maintaining a morally sound home. Scarcely forty years later, women in the Pacific state won full...

The King Of The Pill Mills Was American Pain, A Mega-clinic That Served As A Prototype For The Rest. From A Pristine Former Bank Building, Doctors Distribut...

This Popular and Classic Text explores both the paradoxes and the possibilities of postwar America. Author William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultur...

Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in war-to...

there Have Been Guidebooks To Military Sites Before, But No Other Book Has Covered The War Of 1812 In Its Entirety. This Well-illustrated Updated Edition ...

Klondike Women is a compelling collection of historical photographs and first-hand account of the adventures, challenges, and disappointments of women on t...

Desmond Morton, One Of Canada's Most Highly Respected Historians, Is Keenly Aware Of The Ways In Which Our Past Informs Our Present, And In One Compact And ...

The Story Of Rosa Parks And Her Courageous Act Of Defiance. Provides The Story Of The Young Black Woman Who Refused To Give Up Her Seat To A White Passenger...

Yoohoo, Mrs. Goldberg! Faye Moskowitz is the modern Mollie Goldberg, with added pizzazz: wry, sardonic, but full of warmth. Categories: Biographies & Me...

Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the cour...

James Carroll’s urgent, masterly Jerusalem, Jerusalem uncovers the ways in which the ancient city became a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fe...

Perhaps no other single event brought America and Americans closer together than World War II.When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, t...

On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz--th...

ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award FinalistThe church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western ci...

The Russo-turkish War Was One Of The Most Decisive Conflicts Of The 18th Century. In This Book, Brian Davies Offers A Thorough Survey Of The War And Explain...

Rommel's War In Africa is a vivid and detailed account of the fighting between the German Afrika Korps and the British 8th Army during WWII. It details the ...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

A Conclusion To The Award-winning Historian's Three-volume History Of Slavery In Western Culture Includes Coverage Of The Influential Haitian Revolution, Th...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious vein of Wh...

Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

The moving story of her own search for God by the highly-acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianit...

Frank Ching. Parallel Title In Chinese Characters. Map On Lining Papers. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 471-511.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences...

An Indigenous leader who has dedicated her life to Indigenous Rights, Jody Wilson-Raybould has represented both First Nations and the Crown at the highest l...

You might think that an autobiography by the senior chairman of McDonald’s in Canada and Russia would be a modestly boastful, ho-hum business story of exp...