Browsing the "History" category: 3288 books
In A.D. 535-536, a climatic catastrophe occurred. It was of such mammoth proportions, it blotted out much of the heat and light of the sun for eighteen months and resulted -- directly or indirectly -- in climatic chaos, famine, migration, war, and ma ...more »
ISBN: 0345444361 / Ballantine / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 2244K
Remaking the Conquering Heroes shows that American policymakers and Army officers had to confront and take control over a lawless U.S. military in the aftermath of World War II. Money laundering, theft, racial antagonism between black and w ...more »
ISBN: 0312299567 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 758K
Like Charles Kurault, David Brinkley, and Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw is an outstanding broadcast journalist and a fine writer. In this stunning book, he goes out into America, to tell the story of America's citizen heroes and heroines, men and women ...more »
ISBN: 0375504621 / Random House / Pub Date: Nov 1998 / File Size: 5466K
Western Views of Islam considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers toward Islam during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy Lands, and Spain, the essays in ...more »
ISBN: 0312299672 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 744K
Dozens of books have been written about Eleanor Roosevelt, but her own writings are largely confined to the Roosevelt archives in Hyde Park. "Courage In A Dangerous World" allows her own voice again to be heard. Noted Eleanor Roosevelt scholar Allida ...more »
ISBN: 0231500033 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 1145K
The recent forced landing of a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance aircraft on Hainan Island after aerial harassment by Chinese fighters underscores that the dangers of the Cold War are not behind us. Reconnaissance-intelligence gathering-has always been one ...more »
ISBN: 0345450159 / Ballantine / Pub Date: Jun 2001 / File Size: 2109K
China, the world's oldest and most populous state, remains an enigma to most people in the West, even at a time when that country is playing an increasingly prominent role on the international stage. At the heart of modern Chinese history have been t ...more »
ISBN: 0231500378 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jul 2000 / File Size: 1717K
Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involve ...more »
ISBN: 0375421920 / Knopf / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 233K
India today is a vibrant free-market democracy and has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy and on the world stage. Now, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das traces India's recent social and economic transformations in an eminentl ...more »
ISBN: 0375413448 / Knopf / Pub Date: Apr 2001 / File Size: 393K
Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England sifts through the historical evidence to describe and analyze a world of violence and intrigue, where mothers needed to devise their own systems to protect, nurture, and teach their children. ...more »
ISBN: 031229963X / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 666K
In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said su ...more »
ISBN: 0375505334 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 3416K
*Big Chief Elizabeth* is the swashbuckling story of the extraordinary attempts by English adventurers to claim, divide, and colonize what would be the biggest jewel in Queen Elizabeth's crown: North America. ...more »
ISBN: 0374700826 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Nov 2000 / File Size: 1525K
E-book exclusive special feature: No more flipping pages! This PerfectBound e-book contains in-text hyperlinks to key author notes. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of mine mountain men embarke ...more »
ISBN: 0060087161 / PerfectBound / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 520K
A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. ...more »
ISBN: 0374701547 / FSG / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 2257K
Inspired by Tom Brokaw's bestselling book, The Greatest Generation, members of the World War II generation and their families speak for themselves in these powerful letters -- and Brokaw reflects on why their lives of difficulty and triumph continue ...more »
ISBN: 037550463X / Random House / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 1299K
CONTAINING more information on Asian culture than any other English-language chronological reference work, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture is the first of its kind: a set of more than thirty chronologies for all the countries of As ...more »
ISBN: 0231500041 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 1338K
The question of German unity was the most important and intractable problem to remain unsettled after World War II. W. R. Smyser here explores "the German Question" and uses it to illustrate the story of how Germany was divided and then uni ...more »
ISBN: 0312299508 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 2219K
Denton and Morris present a hugely revealing book about the shadowy past and present of Las Vegas, and its role in the shaping of modern-day America. A detailed and illuminating chronicle of an extraordinary place and time, it is a provocative reinte ...more »
ISBN: 0375414444 / Knopf / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 559K
Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post-Unification period, when the Mezzogiorno was widely seen as barbar ...more »
ISBN: 0312299524 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 1578K
Historians have long held that the Kennedy administration forged the American alliance with Israel as a way of courting political support from American Jews. In contrast, the Eisenhower administration is believed to have considered Israel a political ...more »
ISBN: 0231500017 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 446K
Until now, there has been no detailed account of Israel's nuclear history. Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors, leaks, and journalistic speculations. But with Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen has forged an interpretive politic ...more »
ISBN: 0231500092 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Oct 1998 / File Size: 536K
The Korean peninsula underwent a continuous number of earth-shaking events in the 20th century. North and South Korea are situated among China, Japan, and Russia; they are also profoundly influenced by the United States because of the circumstance ...more »
ISBN: 0312299583 / Palgrave / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 493K
Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule -- the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the ...more »
ISBN: 0375413456 / Knopf / Pub Date: May 2001 / File Size: 291K
In A Fiction of the Past, Dominick Cavallo pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the sixties. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparati ...more »
ISBN: 0312299389 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 605K
The 1990s. An extraordinary decade in Europe. At its beginning, the old order collapsed along with the Berlin Wall. Everything seemed possible. Everyone hailed a brave new Europe. But no one knew what this new Europe would look like. Now we know. Mos ...more »
ISBN: 0375506454 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 685K
