History category: 194783 books
Great Tales from English History (Book 2)
Joan of Arc, the Princes in the Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Isaac Newton, and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's...
by Shailer Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
•Covers the history of Palestine 175 B.C. 70 A.D. , from the time of Seleucid rule to the emergence of the Christian Church.Shailer Mathews was a Christian theologian and noted author, serving as the dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Mathews A History of New Testament Times...
A People's History of the Civil War
Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” —Library Journal
Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book III
The Barbarian Invasions of the Western Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
THE race which played the leading part in history after the break-up of the Roman Empire was the race known as the Teutons. Their early history is shrouded in obscurity, an obscurity which only begins to be lightened about the end of the second century of our era. Such information as we have we owe...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspired during a trip to Rome to write a work that would come to define a large portion of his life, Gibbon proceeded to write one of the most ambitious histories in the English language. "The History" is an epic narrative, comprised of six volumes, that covers thirteen centuries of Roman...
by James Aitken Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
J. A. Wylie (1808-1890) is considered by many to be one of the best religious historians of all time. While he penned many books during his lifetime, he is undoubtedly best known for this collection, The History of Protestantism.
Originally published as 24 books in 1878, this series is being...
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
Tribute, Trade and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
China, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.
In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between...
by Robert Tombs
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
Robert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common...
One in the Eye for Harold
Why everything you thought you knew about history is wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The problem with history is that much of what you learn in school simply isn't true! For instance, King Harold was NOT shot in the eye with an arrow at the Battle of Hastings, Neanderthals were not as dumb as you'd think, Britain had an Indian curry restaurant years before it had fish-and-chip shops...
by Simon Court
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. King of England, claimant King of France, Lord – and later King – of Ireland, Supreme Head of the Church of England and, perhaps most famously, six times a husband, Henry VIII is England’s most notorious monarch. Succeeding his father, Henry...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
This unique ebook compilation includes a full reproduction of the important history of the Third Army in the Persian Gulf War - which provides a broad history of the conflict in addition to illuminating details of the Third Army's involvement - plus a bonus excerpt of the Final Report to Congress,...
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I)
From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
America, how well do you know your history?
Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses?
Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor?
Which first lady refused to serve alcohol in the White House?
What famous inventor was called to find the assassin's...
Indias Literary History
Essays on the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book, the first major reassessment of literary history in nineteenth-century India for a generation, opens up this emerging field of literary history to nineteenth-century India. Its essays emphasise the making of literary history, the process of canonisation, the reinvention of literary tradition,...
A History of Egypt
From Earliest Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
In A History of Egypt*,* Jason Thompson has written the first one-volume work to encompass all 5,000 years of Egyptian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient land of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation.
No country's past can match Egypt's in antiquity,...