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The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinker……続きを見る

"American Notes" by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1891, offers a vivid and insightful account of the author's travels across the United States. Through meticulous observations and engaging prose, Ki……続きを見る

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer……続きを見る

Unearth bounty from the Mississippi Delta The conquistadors staggered through the Delta half-starved, mostly naked, dripping with swamp water. They became the first Europeans to walk in the shade of……続きを見る

This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality. The book is a diachronically elaborated history of brick architecture, ……続きを見る

By: William Bryan and Robert Rose, Orig. Pub. 1876, Reprint 2018, 590 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-502-7. This book is in 5 parts: The Life of Daniel Boone; Early Days in Missouri; Histor……続きを見る

The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian Robert Wedderburn (1762–1834/5) was one of the mos……続きを見る

By: F.A. Battle & Company, Pub. 1889, Reprinted 2017, 960 pages, New Full Name Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-355-9. This book, representative of many of the Biographical sketch books done in the ……続きを見る

"What drove Napoleon to conquer Europe? What made his strategies so revolutionary that they still influence modern warfare today?" In The Napoleonic Empire: A Riveting Exploration of the Battles, St……続きを見る

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime Asia in the early modern period from c. 1585-1800. ……続きを見る

Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, on……続きを見る

Aujourd’hui encore, Napoléon déchaine les passions. Il y a plus de livres écrits sur lui que de jours qui se sont écoulés depuis sa mort. C’est le personnage le plus interprété au cinéma, devant le ……続きを見る

I turned and reached out into the river to fill my little bucket with water, when somehow, I lost my balance and slipped into the rushing, foaming river. I had on my red riding cloak and hood that M……続きを見る

This stirring chronicle of the 1832 Black Hawk War examines the forces struggling for control over the American frontier. The Sauk Nation once occupied one of North America's largest and most prospe……続きを見る

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and……続きを見る

The frank, funny, and unforgettable autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues. Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene's raucous heyday. Wha……続きを見る

Henry Adams's "History of the United States: Jefferson Administration" is a monumental examination of the political landscape during Thomas Jefferson's presidency, encapsulated within a complete fou……続きを見る

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative framework to periodize the history from 1850s to 2010s. Ki……続きを見る

How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core ideals Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's Reconstruction-era policy, both foreign and domest……続きを見る

Authors Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman chart a Gulf Coast odyssey with French adventurers, English colonists, Spanish Dons, American filibusters, Indian warriors, African Maroons, and pirate outlaws……続きを見る

The development of cavalry firearms and the widespread disappearance of armour from the European battlefield saw a decline in the use of the cavalry lance in early modern warfare. However, by 1800 t……続きを見る

This unique collection of "SLAVERY: Hundreds of Documented Testimonies of Former Slaves, Influential Memoirs, Records on Living Conditions and Customs in the South & History of Abolitionist Movement……続きを見る

In "History of the United States: The Administration of Thomas Jefferson," Henry Adams embarks on an exhaustive exploration of one of the most transformative periods in American history. This meticu……続きを見る

Henry Adams's "History of the United States During Thomas Jefferson's Administrations" spans four compelling volumes, meticulously chronicling a transformative era in American history from 1801 to 1……続きを見る

As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he dance……続きを見る

*A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* 'Carefully observed, rich in detail, imaginative, compassionate and angry. A raw, unexpected portrait of Britain's grandeur, wealth, energy, cruelty and hypocrisy in……続きを見る

A history of the United States’ greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War The Civil War generated a vast archive of official recordsーdocuments that would shap……続きを見る

A lighthearted history of ten of Texas's most notorious outlaws, including Clyde Barrow and a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus. The Wild Westerners were a tough breed. They started young and tende……続きを見る

A look at sugar in 19th-century American culture and how it rose in popularity to gain its place in the nation's diet today. American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even tro……続きを見る

Bryan MacMahon focuses on human stories rather than statistics as he depicts the unprecedented events, upheavals and challenges of the famine years through the eyes of those who were there and revea……続きを見る