History
Have you ever imagined unlocking the secrets of ancient civilizations, witnessing epic battles, or understanding the twists and turns that shaped the modern world? With history books, that journey is within your reach!
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Why immerse yourself in history?
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Understand the present: History is the key to understanding the challenges and opportunities of today's world.
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Meet great people: From visionary leaders to controversial figures, discover the minds that changed the course of humanity.
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Explore cultures and societies: Travel through empires, revolutions and movements that defined eras.
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Reflect on the future: Learn from the mistakes and successes of the past to build a better tomorrow.
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Our selection of books includes:
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Classics of historiography: Fundamental works that every history lover needs to know.
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In-depth analyses: Books that go beyond the facts, exploring contexts and connections.
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Immersive narratives: Stories told with passion and rich detail, that make you feel as if you were there.
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Various themes: From Antiquity to the present day, covering wars, revolutions, culture and much more.
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Who is this collection for?
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Students: Expand your academic knowledge with reliable and well-researched sources.
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Curious: Satisfy your thirst for knowledge with fascinating and little-known stories.
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Culture lovers: Immerse yourself in narratives that bring together history, art, politics and society.
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Turn your bookshelf into a time machine!
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Each book is a gateway to a new world, a new era, a new perspective. Let yourself be carried away by stories that inspire, educate and transform.
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Below are some of the great classics of history books. Those interested can purchase them on Amazon. Simply click on the “Buy on Amazon” button below the book cover and you will be directed to the purchase page.
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SPQR: A HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME
English | Mary Beard (author)
Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy?
In S.P.Q.R., world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty. From the foundational myth of Romulus and Remus to 212 cernearly a thousand years later when the emperor Caracalla gave Roman citizenship to every free inhabitant of the empire, S.P.Q.R. (the abbreviation of "The Senate and People of Rome") examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries by exploring how the Romans thought of themselves: how they challenged the idea of imperial rule, how they responded to terrorism and revolution, and how they invented a new idea of citizenship and nation.
Pages
608
Language
English
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
November 9, 2015
THE FALL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
English | David Fromkin (author)
Published with a new afterword from the author - the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created.
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The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts - including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects - are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War.
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In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time, showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day.
Pages
656
Language
English
Publisher
Holt McDougal
Publication Date
July 21, 2009
THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
English | Susan Wise Bauer (author)
This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.
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Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" - literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts - to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.
Pages
868
Language
English
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
March 1, 2007
THE HISTORY OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
English | Susan Wise Bauer (author)
From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the Tang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled.
In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right thus replaces might as the engine of empire.
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Not only Christianity and Islam, but also the religions of the Persians and Germans, and even Buddhism, are put at the service of the state. This phenomenon - which extends from the Americas to Japan - changes religion, but it also changes the state. 4 illustrations; 46 maps.
Pages
746
Language
English
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
February 1, 2010
THE HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE WORLD
English | Susan Wise Bauer (author)
Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume - the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World - chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition.
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Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and Greek rationality blossom while the Inquisition gathers strength. As kings and emperors continue to insist on their divine rights, ordinary people all over the world seize power: the lingayats of India, the Jacquerie of France, the Red Turbans of China, and the peasants of England.​ New threats appear, as the Ottomans emerge from a tiny Turkish village and the Mongols ride out of the East to set the world on fire. New currencies are forged, new weapons invented, and world-changing catastrophes alter the landscape: the Little Ice Age and the Great Famine kill millions; the Black Death, millions more. In the chaos of these epoch-making events, our own world begins to take shape.
Pages
816
Language
English
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
September 23, 2013
THE CRUSADES
English | Thomas Abridge (author)
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge - a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker) - covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history.
From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge's book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.
Pages
767
Language
English
Publisher
Ecco Press
Publication Date
March 8, 2011
THE ANGLO-SAXONS
English | Marc Morris (author)
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris.
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Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics.
Pages
528
Language
English
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Publication Date
June 14, 2022
ASSYRIA: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD'S FIRST EMPIRE
English | Eckart Frahm (author)
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires.​ At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria's wide-ranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek accounts. But nearly two centuries of research now permit a rich picture of the Assyrians and their empire beyond the battlefield: their vast libraries and monumental sculptures, their elaborate trade and information networks, and the crucial role played by royal women.
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Although Assyria was crushed by rising powers in the late seventh century BCE, its legacy endured from the Babylonian and Persian empires to Rome and beyond. Assyria is a stunning and authoritative account of a civilization essential to understanding the ancient world and our own.
Pages
528
Language
English
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication Date
April 4, 2023
BABYLON: MESOPOTAMIA AND THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATION
English | Paul Kriwaczek (author)
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.
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In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ago to the eclipse of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Bringing the people of this land to life in vibrant detail, the author chronicles the rise and fall of power during this period and explores the political and social systems, as well as the technical and cultural innovations, which made this land extraordinary. At the heart of this book is the story of Babylon, which rose to prominence under the Amorite king Hammurabi from about 1800 BCE. Even as Babylon's fortunes waxed and waned, it never lost its allure as the ancient world's greatest city.
Pages
338
Language
English
St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date
March 27, 2012
