History Books


Music Printing in Renaissance Venice: The Scotto Press (1539-1572) Best Price: $212.28 Venetian music print culture of the mid-sixteenth century is presented here through a study of...	Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space between Modernism and the First World War Best Price: $42.27 Booth provides a lucid, interesting view of the Great War, the soldiers, and the situations they...	The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament Best Price: $22.00 Ehrman does a terrific, but respectfully polite job of elucidating the realities of the state of...	Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment Best Price: $300.00	The Movement and The Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee Best Price: $14.99 This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Terry H. Anderson did...



Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis Best Price: $121.00 Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a...	A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945 Best Price: $0.01 Keylor's "World of Nations" is one of many titles that covers the post-WWII era of...	A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture Best Price: $18.17 I am the editor of Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies DRCLAS...	Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present Best Price: $0.01 In Connecting Spheres, Boxer and Quataert, along with an array of eminent contributors,...	A History of US: Book 5: Liberty for All?, Teacher's Guide Best Price: $21.63 This A History of US guide includes teaching strategies, conceptual frameworks, and assessment...



Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology Best Price: $39.50 This is an amazing piece of work. Some of these poems and stories just grab you and move you.	Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos Best Price: $29.99 "We fail to mandate economic sanity," writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains...	Brain Development and Epilepsy Best Price: $55.00 In recent years, developmental neurobiologists have made significant progress toward...	A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (Women Writers in English 1350-1850) Best Price: $30.05 Anna Weamys's A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia is a woman's...	Downscoping: How to Tame the Diversified Firm Best Price: $27.69 Large, diversified firms face unique challenges as they compete worldwide, and corporate...

Sacred Vessels: The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy Best Price: $10.99 There are already many reveiws posted that have stated many worthy comments about this book. I...	Sita's Daughters: Coming Out of Purdah: The Rajput Women of Khalapur Revisited Best Price: $6.25 Sita's Daughters vividly recounts the dramatic changes in role and status experienced by...	The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Women Writers in English 1350-1850) Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a...	The Soviet Experiment: Russia, The USSR, and the Successor States Best Price: $252.56 Suny writes in an interesting, story-telling style that is easy to read. At the same time, he...	The Oxford Companion to United States History (Oxford Companions) Best Price: $17.19 Easton has been printing gorgeous books for as long I as can remember. They work on the same old...

Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 Volume 1 Best Price: $19.00 Although Presidents and national politicians are very different from you and me, LBJ stands out...	Myths of Enki, the Crafty God This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the...	Branches without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862-1882 Best Price: $47.95 The first comprehensive history of the transition from slavery to sharecropping, this major...	English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers Best Price: $125.00 Barbara Harris', English Aristocratic Women from 1450-1550, sheds much needed light on the...	Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty: The New York Times's Man in Moscow Best Price: $32.88 These past ten years have been something like a Golden Age for asleep-at-the-wheel journalism,...

From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980 Best Price: $38.99 This is a carefully executed study of the effects of federal economic policy in transforming the...	Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War: Volume II (Behavior, Society, & Nuclear War) Best Price: $45.95 In the last year the world has witnessed changes in East-West relations that would have been...	Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present: With a Perspective on the Next Century Best Price: $49.95 This history of theories and theorists of economic growth elucidates the economic theory,...	The Vatican and Zionism: Conflict in the Holy Land, 1895-1925 (Studies in Jewish History) Best Price: $6.99 It seems odd that today, as the nations of Eastern Europe restore diplomatic ties to Israel, the...	Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community Best Price: $85.00 The author offers an interesting and insightful account, both scholarly and readable, of the...

Small Wars, Big Defense: Paying for the Military After the Cold War A Twentieth Century Fund Book Best Price: $19.32 One of the most difficult issues facing the United States government is how to maintain an...	When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store Best Price: $16.71 Elaine S. Abelson's When Ladies Go A-Thieving is a remarkably ambitious book that seeks to...	Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution (Publications of the University of California Humanities Research Institute) Best Price: $36.42 This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation...	Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice Best Price: $35.49 This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places...	The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress Best Price: $11.33 This is an important book about the historical process that not so long ago was unashamedly...

Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India Best Price: $113.06 This book is interesting because Nur Jahan was the virtual ruler of India through the years of...	The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990 Best Price: $25.00 This study covers the history of Germany from the Weimar Republic to German reunification. It...	The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination Best Price: $15.58 Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan...	Matty, An American Hero: Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants Best Price: $17.99 It is a historical anomaly that at the end of the nineteenth century the violent game of...	Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times Best Price: $18.05 Jerry Bentley argues against the popular Eurocentric belief that the world began with...

Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 Best Price: $72.98 In the sixty years before the American Civil War, the South Carolina Upcountry evolved from an...	Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman Best Price: $8.49 Hamby's amazing biography of Truman will go down as one of the best books every written...	Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 Best Price: $50.81 Eley is one of the more prominent radical leftists at a radical left university so you should...	America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards Best Price: $76.88 A great deal has recently been written about Jonathan Edwards. Most of it, however, does not...	In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 Best Price: $15.00 Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but...

Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany Best Price: $49.99 When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. ...	The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War Best Price: $7.48 If you're looking for descriptive battle sequences of the three-day riot which rocked New...	Bureaucrats and Beggars: French Social Policy in the Age of the Enlightenment Best Price: $13.94 An exceptional investigation by an obviously wise and learned scholar. I hope one day to study...	Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years Best Price: $18.95 In this compelling biography, Peter Griffin draws on a wealth of previously unpublished...	The Rise of Selfishness in America Best Price: $6.00 Mr. Collier is absolutely right that contemporary American society is far too self-centered and...

Music Printing in Renaissance Venice: The Scotto Press (1539-1572) Best Price: $212.28 Venetian music print culture of the mid-sixteenth century is presented here through a study of...	Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space between Modernism and the First World War Best Price: $42.27 Booth provides a lucid, interesting view of the Great War, the soldiers, and the situations they...	The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament Best Price: $22.00 Ehrman does a terrific, but respectfully polite job of elucidating the realities of the state of...	Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment Best Price: $300.00	The Movement and The Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee Best Price: $14.99 This was required reading for a graduate course in American history. Terry H. Anderson did...

Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis Best Price: $121.00 Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a...	A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945 Best Price: $0.01 Keylor's "World of Nations" is one of many titles that covers the post-WWII era of...	A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture Best Price: $18.17 I am the editor of Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies DRCLAS...	Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present Best Price: $0.01 In Connecting Spheres, Boxer and Quataert, along with an array of eminent contributors,...	A History of US: Book 5: Liberty for All?, Teacher's Guide Best Price: $21.63 This A History of US guide includes teaching strategies, conceptual frameworks, and assessment...

A History of the Supreme Court Best Price: $6.30 I give five stars for three reasons. First, unlike many other legal histories it has few Latin...	The Moral Sex: Woman's Nature in the French Enlightenment Best Price: $3.98 This book deals with a question that currently has a great deal of resonance among historians,...	Gods of Management: The Changing Work of Organizations Best Price: $1.00 I like Handy's writing style and have read most of his books, what I particularly like about...	Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India Best Price: $79.95 Jamison examines the conceptual position of women in the culture of early India, specifically...	"Daddy's Gone to War": The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children Best Price: $25.02 This book is an excellent interdisciplinary study of World War II and its effects on American...

Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History Best Price: $15.00 One of the best things about this book is that it's current and up to date on the most...	Becoming National: A Reader Best Price: $395.94 A selection of diverse readings on the subject of nationalism accompanied by scholarly...	Antisemitism in America Best Price: $12.97 Is antisemitism on the rise in America? Did the "hymietown" comment by Jesse Jackson...	William Faulkner and Southern History Best Price: $27.30 Surprisingly, considering that Williamson authored the excellent Crucible of Race, this book was...	Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States Best Price: $7.48 Completely updated to cover Supreme Court decisions through October of 1997, this classic study...

George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance Best Price: $6.95 In this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel...	Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World Best Price: $14.00 A well-researched account of devout women in Judeo-Christian tradition, their gifts to religion,...	Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition Best Price: $50.00 My first interest in this book was its classical history setting. As a former Classics student,...	Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform Best Price: $14.90 This book examines the lives and careers of four American women--Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith...	The Holocaust in Historical Context: Volume 2: The Holocaust and Mass Death in the Modern Age (Holocaust in Historical Context, Vol 2) While, as pointed out by the other posters, his thesis may be a bit flawed, he nevertheless has...

Fascism: Past, Present, Future Best Price: $3.94 Walter Laquer was for 25 years the director of the Institute of Contemporary History and the...	The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach Best Price: $39.85 I saw this in action in the 80's when CYGS developed the original and best model. This looks...	In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music (Oxford Studies in Music Theory) Best Price: $37.49 With their insistence that form is a dialectical process in the music of Beethoven, Theodor...	Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front Best Price: $65.00 The years before World War II were a time of economic, social and political crises that shaped...	Homosexuality in Modern France (Studies in the History of Sexuality) Best Price: $78.00 This volume explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the...

New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States Best Price: $15.90 A wonderful addition to the historiography on the woman suffrage movement. Wheeler provides a...	Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes Best Price: $85.00 Long studied by anthropologists, historians, and linguists, oral traditions have provided a...	Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American National Character Best Price: $27.45 If you think this book details the divurgence of American culture in the 1800s, you will be...	Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China Best Price: $8.00 Drawing on previously unknown primary sources in both Chinese and Russian, Deborah A. Kaple has...	Central America: A Nation Divided (Latin American Histories) Best Price: $32.88 Woodward does an excellent job of showing how Central America developed from the Kingdom of...

Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls: 2 Volume set Best Price: $350.00 As one might expect, given that many fine scholars contributed, this reference work can be...	Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism Best Price: $17.07 Opening a window onto a long-neglected world of women's experience, this text features...	Indigestion: Living Better with Upper Intestinal Problems from Heartburn to Ulcers and Gallstones Best Price: $4.13 In clear, jargon-free language, with healthy doses of humor and many easy-to-understand...	Contesting Castro: The United States and the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution Best Price: $19.95 Fair, balanced and meticulously researched, Paterson's "Contesting Castro"...	Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume IX: Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas (Vol 9) Best Price: $145.00 This volume examines music's place in the process of Jewish assimilation into the modern...

Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy Best Price: $142.00 Bowie and Immerman posit that "credit for shaping ... strategy (of Cold War) belongs to...	The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 Best Price: $121.00 As technology has increased the speed of communications over the past two centuries, so too has...	The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence Best Price: $19.98 An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to...	Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917 In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Stephen F. Cohen cuts through Cold War stereotypes of...	The Sky in Mayan Literature This unique collection of essays investigates both ancient and modern Mayan texts and describes...

The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor Best Price: $34.74 Excellent book which manages to chart the ... and (related) invectives, poetry and jokes of the...	The Causes of Molecular Evolution (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution) This work provides a unified theory that addresses the important problem of the origin and...	Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 Best Price: $16.06 This book deals with the formation of the world system which evolved from the mid 13th to the...	Spiritual Narratives (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Best Price: $94.12 Published between 1835 and 1907, these four narratives share a theme that continues to dominate...	Four Girls at Cottage City (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) Best Price: $8.56 First published in Boston in 1898, Four Girls at Cottage City tells the story of four carefree,...

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