Religion in American Life: A Short History, Paperback - Jon Butler

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Reducere. The third edition of author Richard O. Davies highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive r...

Reducere. In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism w...

The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe....

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"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soo...

Traces the story of glass from its origins in Mesopotamia some 5000 years ago, to the creation of the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East, the...

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Reducere. This short history of divination with cards looks at three main traditions: the French, the British, and the Anglo-American gone 'French'. The styl...

A short history of Reading Gaol from its 19th-century origins to the present day.Publisher: Two Rivers PressAuthor(s): Peter StoneleyNumber of page...

The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the P...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History comes a 'magisterial work of history' TLS

Russian historian Abraham Ascher offers a skillful blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this concise introduction to Russian history. ...

Reducere. The Holocaust in American Life, Paperback

Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of...

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and A...

Intended for the student of Italian history and culture as well as the general reader, this new edition presents a clear and concise account of the...

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Jeremy BlackIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, black and white; 24 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 25...

Reducere. Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and ...

DescriptionA concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth centuryThe end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Noel MalcolmThis updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the mo...

Tells the narrative of the Second World War.

A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 mil...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Saraiya FaroqhiAuthor: Suraiya FaroqhiIn a concise and colorful style, Suraiya Faroqhi lays out the history of one of the m...

Reducere. Anti-black racism still infects American society. African Americans are more likely than whites to be killed by police, to be pulled over, arrested...

This is a compact but comprehensive and absorbing history of the Second World War. It examines the causes of the war, how it was won and lost, and ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder--and its predecessor diagnoses, including soldier's heart, railroad spine, and shell shock--was recognized as a psyc...

In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans K ng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's role as a world power thr...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas P. KasulisPhilosophy challenges our assumptions--especially when it comes to us from another culture. In exploring J...

Reducere. From the ancient cultures of the Middle East have sprung three of the world's major religions, outstanding accomplishments in literature and scienc...

Reducere. Muslims are neither new nor foreign to the United States. They have been a vital presence in North America since the 16th century. Muslims in Ameri...

As featured in The New York Times Magazine, and on an upcoming PBS documentary series: the surprising and important story of how humans gained what...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jennifer (Merle Curti and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, Merle Cur...

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This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishm...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Norman P. TannerThe editor of the magisterial Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils provides the best overview of the councils...

Perhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as "the modern." Pluralistic and rationalizing, modernity would seem the antithesis...

Reducere. Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and com...

DescriptionFew events in the history of the world have aroused the passions of the decent, the fair, the peaceful, and the just as much as the brut...

What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business. And where did all these normal activities take ...

The author was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what hi...

This unconventional book takes a journey of discovery into the realm of time and timing methods. It highlights the fallacies of methods currently a...